The Railway Museum (Dutch: Het Spoorwegmuseum) in Utrecht is the Dutch National Railway Museum.
It was established in 1927 and since 1954 has been housed in the former Maliebaan station. The museum currently owns a large and varied collection of rolling stock.

Muscle Power Speeeder Handwieldraisine at the Spoorwegmuseum / Railway Museum in Utecht Maliebaan former Station. July 15th, 2022.

The all-wood vehicle provided space for two section engineers or inspectors from Road & Works. In addition, two powerful persons are required for the propulsion, who set the chain drive wheel provided with two handles in motion.

On the right side is a handbrake that presses a wooden brake pad against the right rear wheel. The four wheels also consist of wooden axle bearings, spokes and rims, around which iron wheel tires have been shrunk.

The draisine must be placed on the rails by four men and removed again when approaching other railway vehicles and before reversing the direction of travel.

The vehicle was donated to the Railway Museum in 1930 and probably came from Utrecht SS station, the later 'Lijngebouw', which was burned in 1944.

Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)