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    Miniatur Wunderland – The Largest HO Scale Model Train Layout In The World



    Miniatur Wunderland – The Largest HO Scale Model Train Layout In The World

    Miniatur Wunderland the largest model railway in the world, and one of the most successful tourist attractions in Germany. On the 1.300 m² large layout, far more than a thousand trains, aircrafts, cars and ships move about. A wonder of the world in miniature.

    Web: https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/

    Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg GmbH
    Kehrwieder 2
    20457 Hamburg
    Telephone: +49 (0) 40 300 6800

    22 Comments

    4. @mastergunnerysgt1258 on

      Where would the world be today, if not for the railroads. For people today are coming back to yesteryear and they know now of how it was in the past to enjoy life of yesteryear.

    10. @retrobytes.v65 on

      Miniature World update…

      I visited Miniature World in Hamburg last week.

      Every year I have to drive across Europe and this year a made a deliberate detour to route

      Via Hamburg to see this exhibit.

      There is a big drama about the difficulties of the tickets, you should buy online to avoid a big wait.

      So I did, but on arrival on the Saturday around 11:00am there was no queuing to speak of.

      On entering and seeing the first big display (layout) within 30 seconds I said to myself…where are the trains!

      Trains you say…yes this 100% a designed and built model railway exhibit comprising of many giant model railway layouts, many of which seem to be connected.

      It seems that the exhibit has tried to pivot away from the model railway concept to this Miniature World idea. In these modern times a “Model Railway World” probably would not attract enough people to stay in business.

      I made the visit as I am a model train enthusiast, but without the trains it becomes a very static display and the detailed scenery and gimmicks are quite redundant. I literally forced myself to see everything because I had made such an effort to be there.

      I believe all the trains are computer controlled (DCC) allowing multiple trains to run on the same track at the same time. This means it could have been amazing with trains running everywhere all the time as it was designed to do.

      The level of detail was quite good, but I would describe it as semi-scale (aero modeller parlance). The style of the modelling was the same through out, so for myself once I saw one of the layouts without the trains, there really was nothing else to see except for empty track.

      So finally from a railway modellers point of view it was very disappointing to see hardly any trains at a model railway exhibit. These are model train layouts and not a miniature world.

      In 2024, a physical miniature world have to be very clever and have to have EVERYTHING moving and not mainly a static display.

      I guess I’ve made my point

    12. @maxmaxious912 on

      Grandiose et impressionnant, excellente réalisation technique mais… Aucun Charme.
      Comme tous ceux qui on la chance de pouvoir réaliser ou, et d’avoir de la surface pour faire un réseaux de trains.
      C’est de la démesure sans comme écrit plus haut, aucun charme.

    14. @SvenMöckel on

      Great Videos! Now in Miniaturwunderland Hamburg Rio de Janeiro, Antarctica (with Metallica on an ice floe – search and find), Venezia and Monaco witgh an real Formula 1-Race.
      At the Top of the To-do List.

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