Adler (replica)

The original Adler was the first working steam locomotive in Germany, supplied from England and put to work on the Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth. Her first public run left Nuremberg at nine in the morning on 7 December 1835 and reached Fürth, six kilometres away, nine minutes later with two hundred invited guests aboard. She remained in service for twenty-two years.

The DB Museum in Nuremberg holds two full-size replicas. The working one, built for the 1935 centenary exhibition, carried passengers over a two-kilometre track that summer; it was badly damaged in the roundhouse fire at the museum in 2005 and was rebuilt over two years at the Meiningen works. The second, a static exhibit, was built in 1952 by Deutsche Bundesbahn apprentices and used at trade fairs before coming to the museum.

Location and status last confirmed Nuremberg Transport Museum, August 2026. Subject to verification.

The original Adler was scrapped in 1855 and sold to an iron dealer in Augsburg in 1858; nothing of it survives. This is the replica built from 1933 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn at the Kaiserslautern works, largely true to the original. It was damaged by fire at the Nuremberg Transport Museum on 17 October 2005 and reconstructed at the Meiningen steam locomotive works between April and October 2007. It is preserved in Germany, not Britain.

No owner or livery is recorded here; the source consulted gives the location and status but not those details.