The christmas market in Essen Steele opened on the 2nd November (it's always the first one).
Since some years they have a small railway village at one place, which also includes some locomotives.
Next to the big locomotives are also some model railways, including this historical recreation of Essen Steele in the 30th and 60th of the Steeler Archiv built by Harald Vogelsang.
Even if this represents Steele way before my birth I can still recognize many of the places.
The railway station "Steele West" is now just known as "Essen Steele S-Bahnhof", while the railway station, formally known as "Steele Hbf" is now known as "Essen Steele Ost".
For those on Mastodon, which only shows the first 4 images, these are 10 photos. (Just open the photos and scroll through them, or view the post on my instance).
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