Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land region Northeast of Cologne hosts a very special attraction for train and rail enthusiasts: the Bergische Musemsbahnen e.V. federation hosts the world smallest tram system. The historic trams are thereby fully run by the non-profit organization. I visited the trams in April 2019 at their season opening weekend. Here is review.



The Bergisch Historic Trams were my Favorite Travel / Transport Museum in 2019.
Bergisch Historic Trams – Location and Track
While you may enter and exit the tram as you like, you will likely start your trip at the Kohlfurther Brücke (Kohfurth Bridge), where the museum is located as well. The other terminal stop is Greuel. The tram could even take an additional stop called Möschenborn, but this one is not in use.
Admission to the museum is free. You only need to pay for the tram rides, which is a 4 Euro adult one way, 6 Euro adult return. A day ticket is 12 Euro. It is quite popular to take the tram up the hill to Greuel and walk back downhill. The tram is only operating every second and fourth Sunday per month. At these days, there is typically a tram every half an hour, serviced by different kind of engines. For details about the timetable, it may be helpful to have a look at the German website. In addition, you can visit the museum every Saturday (all year long), 11:00 to 17:00hrs.


Bergisch Historic Trams – Riding the Trams
The trams used are rotating over the day. We had a 275 class, which is an articulated railcar. Overall, there are six trams, which currently service the route (all different classes). In addtion, they have some service train for the maintenance. As the train was quite full, we decided to go for the direct return and did not leave the train in the uphill station.



I know this kind of train from my very childhood years. The restoration is just amazing, the tram looked as they used to look in original service. Not all passengers could get a seat, though. You pay at the conductor, who is crossing the tram during the trip.





The route is really beautiful, passing a lot of forest and even an alpaca farm. The historic highlight is likely the Manuelskotten, a former place to grind knives and scissors.



Bergisch Historic Trams – Museum
We visited the museum after our tram ride. One tram was outdoors and likely to be used udring the day. The collection is really amazing. Some are currently renovated and may be in service in the future.






A place which is very popular among the kids is the larger scale model train. Like everything apart from the tram rides, playing with the train is for free (a donation box is of course available). Another historic tram is hosting the souvenir shops, which is offering a lot of literatur and other products about trams and trains.



Bergisch Historic Trams – My View
I think that the association driving the Bergische Museumsbahnen just does an amazing job. It was so much fun to ride the old trams and stroll through the museum itself. It is just one of these hidden gems close to your home you feel you have missed in your life. I will definitely come back to this place, also to try out some other trams. If you are a rail enthusiast and happen to be around Cologne, I highly recommend you to do the same. No question – Top Pick!
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I love to have a look to German artists, which might not be in key focus of the media. Sören ...
A public holiday in (parts of) Germany gave me the opportunity to collect some status Tier Points for my British ...
Especially with British Airways moving the vast majority of their operations from B-Gates to C-Gates, I have been frequently visiting ...
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
Germany meets Belgium and Belgium meets the Netherlands. Needless to say that also Germany and the Netherlands touch each other ...
As I told you in previous postings, I initially gather candidates for my Songs of the Week, before I narrow the ...
Just at the end of the week in which I covered the concert of the Wellerman band The Longest Johns, I ran ...
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
Not too many releases due to the Easter week. The week was dominated by my Rock of Ages coverage. First of all, ...
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
I have to give in: the song leading this week's Songs of the Week might also be a candidate for the ...
Floorball playoff time in Bonn: on 26th March 2023, the SSF Dragons Bonn hosted the first best of three match ...
Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but ...
On 10th February 2023, I ran into the single release All my Songs by the German duo Mael & Jonas (in fact, ...
Even though Brühl right South of Cologne is just home of 45,000 inhabitant, there are mutiple major attractions in the ...
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
Wolfgang Petry is back: just about one and a half years after Auf das Leben and half a year after Crosswalk to ...
They started as a school band in my home town and gained global reputation: AnnenMayKantereit released their fourth album Es ist ...
Damn, it is already four years... And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I ...
Damn - just when I had a massive travel volume, the number of new releases of all genres went up ...
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
The ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf was truly an sports event I was looking forward to very much. First of all, ...
This weekend was really difficult for me to plan ahead. With the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf, I had a fixed ...
I felt that genug, the debut EP by German singer IUMA, is a nice addition to the release reviews as of ...
27th January 2023, the first Flyctory.com concert coverage of the new year. I will feature a couple of really cool ...
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
Wow, that's massive! After I had a quite thin list of new releases since mid-December 2022, Christmas break is officially ...
The band name Groenalund feels quite Swedish. In fact, there are references to Sweden in the band history. First of ...
I felt that the current discussions about the closing down of the village of Lützerrath in Germany are a good ...
The Wasserturm in my home town Cologne is indeed one of the most iconic hotels of the city. Literally, the ...
I guess that the next weeks will be more intense. Depending if you look at the publishing or the cut-off ...
The German amusement park Phantasialand is regularly rated to be one of the best and especially most atmospheric spots of ...
I was quite amazed that there were quite a lot of interesting single releases this week. At least artists from ...
Sea Life runs several outlets in Germany. One of them is in Oberhausen in the Ruhrgebiet region. With 5000 inhabitants ...
The Christmas business is more and more turning towards TVs, toys and other stuff, while the music industry is doing ...
Very interesting weekend this time: with the shows of Milky Chance and Brett Young, both in Cologne, I had quite ...
Quite a lot of interesting music on Flyctory.com in November: after the Alexander Ludwig and Nik Wallner show in Cologne, ...
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
After two intercontinental trips in October 2022, I am somehow glad that I am scheduled to stay in Europe until ...
Jazz meets funk - the concept of the self-titled album by the band Superläuche (which is hard to translate, roughly ...
Right after coming back from New York City, I headed to the Helios37 in Cologne the same evening. Sound of ...
Just two months until Christmas - but I still refused to have an according song in my Songs of the Week ...
On their website the German band Hostage states. "There is only one rule: Stylistic boundaries do not exist." I received ...
After staying at the Road Stop Motel in Dortmund, my wife and I were really curious about exploring another outlet ...
October is quite a busy time for me. Private and business trips take most of my time. My Songs of the ...
Freddie! Who would have thought that Mr Mercury is part of my Songs Of The Week one day. Not sure if Bryan ...
I had a couple of private spa experiences with my wife already, like the MyWellness in Cologne or the Pure ...
After I gave you an overview of 2022 European appearances of my favorite musical Rock of Ages, I felt to ...
Even though the Belgian border is less than an hour drive away from where I live, there are not too ...
While the last week brought me to Sunderland, Hamburg and Lillehammer in Norway, the song selection of the week comes ...
Intense weeks lay ahead of me. My very last shows of my favorite musical Rock of Ages this year are ...
Power metal from Germany: Blind Guardian are a German band from the Rheinland region. They are active since 1984 and ...
Hallo, ich bin Jolina Carl - "Hello, I am Jolina Carl" rather sounds like a debut album than the release of ...
Saving my Melia frequent traveler points and doing some research for Flyctory.com were two really good reasons to try out ...
23rd August 2022 has been a very special day to me. Always great to be able to cover a Lindsay ...
The museum at the Schwelmer Straße 41 is not exactly at birthplace of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen - but it is just a ...
Legendary Gipsy Kings and one of Germany's biggest potential drivers of country music, More Than Words - I felt really ...
My 5th August 2022 update of the Songs of the Week this time features 15 songs. Again, there is a wide ...
After I featured Marie Reim's debut album 14 Phasen in June 2020, I was really curious how her music has evolved during ...
German schlager icon Wolfgang Petry is back with a new EP. After a "real" Wolfgang Petry album release, Auf das Leben, ...
Okay, I have to give in from the very beginning: I love my home town Cologne - and this my ...
Okay, this week, my Songs Of The Week listeners need to stay strong: I started my list with schlager (with a touch ...
The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) is a traditional meal, somewhere between a brunch and an afternoon tea. And: it ...
Whenever I start working for my Songs of the Week, I typically scan the candidates I archived for that reason and ...
Even though Charly Klauser is active in the German music scene since almost two decades, her album Mehr ("More") released on 24th ...
Early summer 2022. After the Covid-19 crisis feels to have come to a certain end, air travelers all over Europe ...
Doing some shopping (including the local sweets outlets) and visiting the Drielandenpunt, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, I recently ...
If you feel that Cologne Carnival songs or party music must be a rather regional and limited things, stats of ...
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to ...
I am still in the process of recovering from illness - not sure if that had any influence on my ...
The German language has the nice opportunity to simply combine two noun to a new word. Seele means soul in German and ...
Old lounge, new lounge: after Lufthansa decided to terminally close down some of their lounges, the company Global Lounge Network ...
Due to illness, I unfortunately cannot provide you the full coverage on the music side of Flyctory.com - and it ...
A big name and music legend of German rock is back: Marius Müller-Westernhagen releases Das eine Leben, his first studio album ...
I was quite amazed that not only Christmas, but also Easter feels to have an impact on the volume of ...
New songs from Mrs. Greenbird: Cologne's finest Americana pop pair released a new set of tracks on 9th April 2022 ...
There are quite some reasons to visit the Western German city of Aachen. However, before I spend a night there ...
While the last week's edition solely covered a few songs, my 25th March 2022 version of the Songs Of The Week ...
Not really sure whether it is my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins or other influences, but this time, ...
Germany between World War II. - this is roughly the mission of the House of the History of the Federal ...
Even though the city is not overwhelmingly large, Solingen in fact comes with two zoos / animal parks. While I ...
One of the architectural witnesses of the industrial heritage of the Rhein-Ruhr Region in Germany are definitely the gasometers. These ...
Trying out another hotel brand: after I had stayed at quite a bunch of Premier Inn Hotel locations in England ...
One thing I really love about this new category Songs Of The Week is that it surprises me again and again ...
Second album release by German schlager artist Alexander Martin. The Rheinland musician publishes Wir zieh'n das durch on 18th February 2022 ...
As I purchased a Merlin Entertainment annual ticket for Germany in May 2021 (majorly as I have been covering Heide ...
The DFEL (German Women Ice Hockey League) leader traveling to the bottom team of the table (which had, to be ...
The Hilton Hotel Group is currently opening quite a lot of new Hampton by Hilton Hotels over Central Europe. Sufficient ...
Even though it is a some 50 kilometer drive from Cologne to Gummersbach, the VfL Gummersbach is not only the ...
I am still evaluating whether the Songs Of The Week are an interesting format for you. While the first postings got ...
In order to collect some new material for Flyctory.com, I recently drove to Remscheid to cover some museums there. The ...
It is time for the final posting of the years, simply named The Best Ones 2021. After looking into my ...
The week of Christmas is typically one of the weeks of the year with the lowest amount of new music ...
I could not make it to the World Floorball Championships in Uppsala (Women) and Helsinki (Men, postponed from 2020) this ...
Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
Even though I do have a couple of airport reviews on Flyctory.com, I so far missed a lot of the ...
As I already told you last year when I reviewed the Charles Dickens Museum in London, I am a huge ...
My hometown Cologne is full of music - not only carnival-related. Not only during these days, Cat Ballou has become ...
The German artist Det Haggard is a new name in the German lyrics country music scene. After he had some ...
Parking fees at Dusseldorf Airport got ridiculously high in recent past. For my August 2021 trip to Poland (from Thursday ...
In December 2019, I praised the album 2084 by the Pete Wolf Band. The artist behind that project is Wolfgang ...
A tribute band growing to an album with seven very own songs and two covers: Freakstorm from Gummersbach near Cologne ...
The first album by LaFee since ten years - and in fact this one is heading back some more decades ...
Located right at the River Rhine, the Hyatt Regency is one of the most iconic and also one of the ...
During the later phases of the Covid-19 lock-downs in Germany, I had the idea to that posting. Maybe just because ...
Some country from Germany: just in the week I did the second edition of my German Songs Country Music Picks, ...
Even though Solingen is not a that major city (some 160,000 inhabitants), it features two mid-size animal parks / zoos ...
I received quite a lot of feedback on my initial (late April 2021) version of the The German Songs edition of ...
The hotel situation at Cologne / Bonn Airport used to be quite bothering. There used to be a single hotel ...
I just have to admit: I like to listen to very few kinds of jazz, but I am absolutely not ...
Especially after all the Covid-19 restrictions, my wife and I were really looking forward to two relaxing hours in a ...
A debut EP by a home town artist - of course I have been curious when I ran into Luna ...
German rock made in Cologne: of course, I am always especially curious when I run into artists I don't know ...
It can't be too bad to have a smile in these times, can it? When I ran into the German ...
The story why I felt I had to visit the Bergisches Museum für Bergbau, Handwerk und Handel - the Bergisches ...
It took me one week later than usual to give you a new edition of the Songs Of My Life. This ...
Despite Mike Leon Grosch had a huge success in Germany in 2006, his career had quite a hit shortly thereafter ...
Some new music from my home town: Klee is a German pop act, who have been quite successful in the ...
It's been just too long since I did the last episode of my Country Music Picks. At the end of ...
Sarah Lombardi's career started with a bit ups and downs in the German version of American Idol. Three years after ...
Travelling in Germany has been turned down to an absolute minimum. Hotels are just able to accept business guests and ...
A zoo which is suitable for the cold and rainy days as well: as you might guess already, Aquazoo Löbbecke ...
There are several causes which make me feel I should go for an album review. When I decided to have ...
Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
There are periodically discussions, whether the Cologne local transport is upgraded by cable car traffic over the river Rhine. However, ...
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
Since late October 2020, restaurants in Germany are not allowed to open as a pandemic lock-down measure. However, take-away services ...
I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
The Deutsches Museum (German Museum for Science and Technology) in Munich is one of the most fascinating places in Germany ...
Cologne Cathedral is the key attraction of my home town Cologne, of course (it is even one of Germany's very ...
50 years of Bläck Fööss - the "naked feet", what is the literal translation of their band name are a ...
After having a couple of hotel reviews from nearby cities Dusseldorf and Bonn already, I felt it was a huge ...
After the Divij Sharan as the last Indian player had bowed out of the tournament the day before, I could ...
Third seeded Dennis Shapovalov (Canada) had a tough time in his Cologne debut appearance: against Gilles Simon (France), he struggled ...
After German Alexander Zverev swept his Australian opponent John Millman in the bett1HULKS Championship 2nd round singles match in the ...
Unfortunately, my work schedule on the Championship week Wednesday was a bit busy, so that I had to rush from ...
German wildcard Dennis Altmaier was almost swept by Belarus qualifier Egor Gerasimov. I just saw the second set - the ...
Right before Sumit Nagal's match against Kecmanovic, I had at least the chance to have a short spot on the ...
Second week in the Cologne LANXESSarena, second tournament: more or less in parallel to the first week tournament victory by ...
After having three doubles matches on the minor Court 1, including Divij Sharan's first round loss, I dared to watch ...
This first round Men's Doubles match on Court 1 was in fact the first match I saw on 14th October ...
I just stayed on the smaller Court 1 after Divij Sharan's 1st round match at the bett1HULKS Indoors in Cologne ...
Due to all the Covid-19 regulations and local restrictions the male tennis ATP Tour set up some new tournaments in ...
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
Holidays close to home? Not just due to Covid-19, I felt it to be more and more attractive to have ...
Sometimes, you just have to be creative: if you have one of the biggest mobile ferris wheels in the neighboring ...
In order to have a more comfortable (and longer) sleep, I decided to go for a night at the ibis ...
The Rheinturm - or Rhine Tower - is definitely one of Dusseldorf's most iconic viewpoints. During a recent stay at the ...
As I had couple of Spain and Portugal trips planned for summer 2020 and all have been cancelled due to ...
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
They did it: the German Women Soccer Bundesliga (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) re-started a few days ago, on 29th May 2020. I ...
During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
My birth town Bonn has been hit heavily by Covid-19. The key reason for that are not health issues, but ...
My beloved home town Cologne, Germany, is always a bit of crazy - not just during the carnival days. Thus, ...
After I recently visited the traditional drive-in movie in Cologne and the additional pop-up Car Watch in my home town, 2nd ...
As I wrote in my recent review about the traditional DRIVE IN movies in the South of Cologne, drive-in movies ...
Regarding passenger flights, my hometown airport Cologne / Bonn is only the seventh biggest in Germany, servicing some 12 million ...
Quarantining, social isolation, being unable to go out on a Friday - overall, the cultural and social scene has been ...
Fairy Forests are a quite traditional attraction. Different stages tell you the stories of fairy tales, typically illustrated by puppets ...
A Calculation Museum? Sounds like a place for die-hard nerds - but the Arithmeum in Bonn is really a popular ...
The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
Why not doing it at home? Though Bonn is just some 40 kilometers away from our flat, my wife and ...
While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
The Historic Mustard Mill in Cologne ("Historische Senfmühle Köln") is quite a unique place in the million people city. It ...
Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
The Christmas Market in Cologne's Old Town is the largest of the city. Under the slogan "Heinzel's Wintermärchen" (something like Good ...
The Stadtgarten in Cologne is both, a recreational park in the heart of the city, whose facilities are protected, and ...
Cologne Cathedral and a 25 meter high Christmas tree - these are the key ingredients, which turn the Christmas Market ...
I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
You may know Mönchengladbach (or: Moenchengladbach) for soccer, likely. However, the city hosts one of the most remarkable Star Wars ...
During each festive season, Cologne is crowded with tourists and visitors due to its Christmas markets. There are masses of ...
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
Though it just processes about a half of the number of passengers of Munich Airport and even just a third ...
While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
Before I went to Zons and watched the German interpretation of Rock of Ages at the Zons Open Air Theater, ...
A day after SSF Bonn's ladies home match versus Leipzig/Grimma, I watched the men's team in Holzbüttgen. Sunday Night Floorball ...
Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
The Vulkaneifel region Southwest of Bonn, Germany, is still a quite active vulcanic region. Thus, all around there and in ...
DJK Holzbüttgen close to Dusseldorf and Cologne is an amazing masterpiece of local sports club management. Having started with very ...
Water towers are not too common in Central Europe, especially in Germany. This is definitely one of the key factor, ...
The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
Same procedure as last year? Same procedure as every year! The traditional women soccer pre-season test match between my home ...
Solingen, some 30 km Northeast of Cologne, is known as Germany's headquarter of the knife and scissor industry. Thus, it ...
I already visited a couple of stadium tours with Flyctory.com in the past. My home and heart soccer club, 1 ...
Did you ever copy a CD from a friend? Plagiarism can be much worse than just bootlegging. The Museum Plagiarius ...
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
At the beginning of April 2019, the floorball seasons worldwide were already about to reach their climax. On 6th April ...
Lindlar, a minor Eastern suburb of Cologne, hosts one of two open-air museums driven by the regional Rhineland authority LVR ...
How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
Bergisch Gladbach, a 110,000 inhabitant city East of Cologne, is a traditional location for the production of paper. While nowadays, ...
Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
One of the key attractions in Ratingen, Northeast of Dusseldorf, is the remarkable Cromford Textile Factory, which is driven by ...
When people think of real "Eau de Cologne", they typically think about the well-branded 4711 brand located in the city's ...
9th September, first matchday of the Men Bundesliga. One of the most interesting teams of the new season is likely ...
There are quite a lot of minor deer and animal parks around Cologne, quite a lot of them mainly based ...
Located North of Cologne, the "Wildpark Tannenbusch" offers a nice way to spent your free time with your family, enjoying ...
Visiting the women soccer pre-season between SV Menden, a team from my home town St. Augustin near Bonn, and the ...
You won't find Patricia Hanebeck in the ranking of the most successful German women soccer players if you you drill ...
Spa Town Bad Münstereifel, suffering from economic problems in their city center, decided to revamp its commercial concept and opened ...
The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
The Cologne City Museum's recent history is not really what one would call "lucky". After a water damage in later ...
Sunday, 27th May 2018 - time to slowly head home. After quite a lot of flying, this has really been ...
There are a lot of factors which made me look forward to the first destination of my trip, Tangier in ...
No, I am not going to travel between Europe and Asia or America like a madman or do some extreme ...