Vintage trains (with performances) during the Whitsun weekend - three trips a day to Fruens Bøge
(23-24 May)

Ride the museum's vintage train to see the beautiful springtime splendour of Fruens Bøge on Whit Sunday and Whit Monday. The train is made up of charming Triangel motor carriages built in Odense about 70 years ago. Actors from the Museum Tidens Samling will be performing on the platforms wearing costumes from the “good old days”.

Admission to the museum, including the ticket for the vintage train: Children 40 DKK, Adults 80 DKK.

Odense Station dep. 10.23 12.23 14.23
Fruens Bøge arr. 10.30 12.30 14.30
Fruens Bøge dep. 10.47 12.47 14.47
Odense Station arr. 10.54 12.54 14.54

It will be like riding the train through the countryside in the good old days when the Danish Railway Museum offers vintage train rides to the Fruens Bøge beech trees in full leaf.

Although express train service was offered between Denmark's biggest cities, people travelling from their local halt to the next country station had to make do with a much lowlier form of train. From the 1920s right up to the 1960s, local trains comprised a couple of small motor carriages with open end-platforms and wooden seats with a driver's cabin and space for goods in one end of the carriage. They were often coupled end-to-end to have a driver's cabin at each end of the train, to prevent having to back up or turn around at the terminal stations.

This is the same kind of train you get to ride between Odense Station and Fruens Bøge at Whit Weekend. The two motor carriages are both of the “Triangel” make, i.e. they were built by De forenede Automobilfabriker in Odense, one of Denmark's few train and automobile factories.
The oldest carriages was obtained by DSB in 1927 for deployment in the Greater Copenhagen Area, but soon ended up on the Stubbekøbing - Nykøbing - Nysted line. The other carriage is somewhat newer and served on the Troldhede - Kolding - Vejen railway, among other places.

You are free to choose whether to enjoy the comfort of the hard wooden seats inside the carriage or to stand outside on the open end-platforms, enjoying the sight of the Funen spring in full blossom.