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View of the Hamburg section
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Ships sailing in real water in the Scandinavia layout
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Miniatur Wunderland (en: Miniature Wonderland) is a model railway attraction in Hamburg, Germany, the largest of its kind in the world.[1] As of January 2008, the railway consists of 11,000 metres (36,089 ft) of track in H0 scale, divided into five sections: Southern Germany, Hamburg and the coast, America, Scandinavia and Switzerland. Of the 4,000 square metres (43,056 sq ft) of floorspace, the model takes 1,500 m2 (16,146 sq ft).
It is to expand the number of sections to 10 by 2014, the next is an airport, due to open in 2009. The detail of the models is staggering, currently:
- over 900 trains with over 12,000 carriages running through the model
- over 300,000 lights
- 200,000 figures are scattered throughout the model with
- 200,000 trees.
History
The construction of the first part started in December 2000 and the first three parts were completed in August 2001.
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External links
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Media related to Miniatur Wunderland at Wikimedia Commons
