Museumsbanen Maribo-Bandholm

Museumsbanen Maribo-Bandholm is Denmark's oldest heritage railway and a living piece of railway history. The line between the cathedral town of Maribo and the harbour town of Bandholm opened in 1869 as Lolland's first railway — built to connect the interior of Lolland with Bandholm Harbour — and was thus also one of the country's first private railways. Passenger traffic ceased in 1952, but in 1962 the Danish Railway Club was given permission to run museum trains on the line, giving rise to Denmark's first heritage railway. Today the line runs between 50 and 60 operating days a year over the summer, when heritage trains — hauled among others by Denmark's oldest operational steam locomotive from 1879 — carry passengers on the roughly eight-kilometre journey through the Lolland landscape to Bandholm Harbour and back. The carriages represent private-railway rolling stock from the period 1869-1930, and the railway has around 30 locomotives and carriages. A distinctive feature is the well-preserved station environment in Bandholm, whose main building was listed in 1972. The railway also holds special events such as coffee trains and dining-car trains, and a train ride is a nostalgic experience for both children and railway enthusiasts.