Draft:Stiftung Bahnpark Region Brugg

The Bahnpark Region Brugg Foundation or Bahnpark Brugg in Brugg in Aargau maintains the historic locomotive depot. The SBB Historical Heritage Foundation (SBB Historic), the Mikado 1244 association and other private owners have stationed their locomotives here. This resulted in the largest collection of operational standard-gauge steam locomotives in Switzerland.

History
In 1892, the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB) built a four-stall roundhouse near Brugg station for the maintenance of steam locomotives, which was expanded by the SBB in 1913 to include a seven-stall roundhouse. As early as 1928, the depot was abolished as a locomotive location with the electrification of the railway lines that met here.

The Bahnpark Region Brugg Foundation was established on April 18, 2006 in Brugg with the aim of preserving the Brugg train station depot and making it available to interested parties. The founders of the foundation are made up of interested people from Brugg and the surrounding area, industrial companies, the SBB and various associations. The operating concept was based on the museum in the railway park in Augsburg.

The railway park is located on Unterwerkstrasse southwest of Brugg station next to the tracks on the Brugg-Aarau line and below the viaduct of the connecting line from the Bözberg line to the Aargau Southern Railway.

Events
At Pentecost 2022, after a two-year break, the "Open Gates Days" took place again. Many steam locomotives were in active use. Among other things, the newly installed steam snow blower from the Gotthard.


 * Homepage der Stiftung Bahnpark Region Brugg
 * Homepage der SBB Historic
 * Homepage des Vereins Mikado, Brugg