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3 places in Cologne

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Rheinisches Industriebahn-Museum

A railway museum in the historic Nippes locomotive depot – with around 70 industrial locomotives, open once a month.

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Stellwerk Köln-Dünnwald

A small museum of railway signalling in a former signal box in Dünnwald – with working interlocking systems and an operations simulation.

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Straßenbahn-Museum Thielenbruch

A tram museum in a 1906 depot hall – around two dozen Cologne trams from the horse-drawn era to the modern light-rail car.