DANISH MUSEUM CONCLUDES MAJOR ROUND OF DE‑ACCESSIONS

Denmark’s national railway museum has nearly completed a major de‑accessioning process in which a large number of items have been sold or scrapped.

The Danish Railway Museum has disposed of 70 artefacts from its collection and scrapped a further 65, while retaining 209 exhibits consisting of 157 for static display and 52 items in working order (see also SR467 and SR478).

René Schrøder Christensen, Head of Research & Collections, told Steam Railway: ‘The process is almost at its end – all de‑accessioned units have been delivered to clubs and museums and almost all the units with no realistic buyers have been scrapped.”

Enthusiast groups rescued five steam locomotives; 0‑6‑0T No. F428 and 2‑6‑0 No. D857 went to the Southern Jutland Heritage Club, while the Danish Railway Club took on 2‑8‑0 No. H783, 1910‑built 0‑6‑0WT No. 3 and 1886‑built 0‑4‑2 No. J1.

However, there were no takers for ‘Pacific’ No. E978 or the bottom half of 4‑6‑0 No. R946 (the

museum retaining the boiler and tender of the latter as spares for operational classmate No. R963) while two more 0‑6‑0Ts, Nos. F662 and F668, were scrapped in 2013 and 2016 respectively.

A total of 22 coaches, 25 wagons and three other vehicles went to new homes, but 15 coaches, 26 wagons and ten other vehicles have been scrapped or have not found buyers.