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Explore giant miniature wonderland of Germany

15:27 - 10/02/2016 Wednesday
Update: 15:28 - 10/02/2016 Wednesday
Yeni Şafak

Miniatur Wunderland, which is a model including railway attraction, in Hamburg, Germany and the largest of its kind in the world, attracts large numbers of tourists. The railway, located in historic Speicherstadt, consists of 15,400 meters of track in HO scale and divided into seven sections; Harz, the fictitious city of Knuffingen, the Alps and Austria, Hamburg, America, Scandinavia, Switzerland and a replicate of Hamburg Airport. By 2020, the exhibit is expected to have reached its final construction phase, including at least a total of ten new sections in a model area of over 2,300 m2. The next section is Italy, scheduled to open in the spring of 2016. The exhibit includes 930 trains made up of over 14,450 carriages, 335,000 lights, 228,000 trees, and 215,000 human figurines. The creators are working on models of France, England and Africa.

#Miniatur Wunderland
#Germany
#Hamburg
#railway
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