page_title: Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth / Operations
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth (Gütersloh), Lok "Gustav"
context_page_description: The Dampf-Kleinbahn Mühlenstroth is a voluntarily run 600mm narrow gauge steam railway in Gütersloh, Germany.
  The railway was opened in 1973 to be able to present the corresponding associations collection of vintage narrow gauge railway vehicles to the public.
  It consists of approximately 1.5km of track that is set up to allow different types of operations.
context_section_description: Originally the train ran around the field on a simple circuit with only one station: "Postdamm". This was soon complemented by a second station, named "Rödelheim" on the opposite side to make two train operations possible. Then a third station called "Mühlenstroth Kleinbahnhof" was built next to the engine shed and workshop in the centre of the circuit and connected to it via a rail triangle.
  Now an end to end service form "Mühlenstroth Klb" via "Rödelheim" to "Postdamm" with the locomotive running around its train at both ends was introduced. This is the standard procedure on normal running days. The operating season traditionally begins May 1st and ends on the last Sunday of September. However since 1992 the railway runs its "Nikolausfahrten" (Santa Specials) on selected weekends in December. The DKBM celebrates every 5th anniversary with a gala event which sees all operational locomotives in steam and sometimes features guest engines from other railways. 
  Since 2012 there is an annual special event called the "Kleinbahntage" on which the railway aims to recreate operations and scenes as they would have been experienced on a rural light railway in the 1950s and 1960s. This sees trains running from "Mühlenstroth Kleinbahnhof" to "Mühlenstroth Kleinbahnhof" via "Rödelheim" and "Postdamm" and back again, thus simulating an end to end line with two intermediate stops.
caption: DKBM loco No.7 with a passenger train on its way to Rödelheim
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