The STAR organizes all kinds of different activities throughout the year. What can you do with us? Below you will find an overview of the possibilities per category.
Curious about which activity is first on the schedule and when the train runs? In our driving days calendar you can see when which event takes place and what the next day is that you can travel by train!
Riding days
Spread throughout the year, in almost all school holidays, we run on Sundays and Wednesdays between Stadskanaal and Veendam. During the summer season, the steam train runs. When it is being overhauled in the winter, a historic diesel train runs. You can find our running days in the calendar.
Events
STAR organizes many events, for example on holidays such as Easter and Ascension Day, but also multi-day events such as Stadskanaal under Steam. Read all about it here!
Packages
A special day out? Then you’ve come to the right place! Book a package and combine your train journey with a bus trip, boat trip or a visit to a museum.
Dining on the train
Want to combine your train ride with a bite to eat? Pancake rides for the whole family, delicious high teas, drinks trains or a culinary theme dinner, everything is possible! In winter, for example, it is also delicious to eat stew on the train.
Along on the locomotive
Have you always wanted to stoke and ride on a steam locomotive yourself? Or experience up close what happens on the yard? Museum railway STAR offers a number of different service packages.
Conductor on the train!
Younger visitors can also make their dream come true. With the conductor on the train. Give the departure signal, clip the tickets of the passengers, help close gates and doors… in short, get to work like a real conductor! Of course with the conductor’s hat on!
Organize your own trip?
On the road with “your own train”? You have also come to the right place for a family reunion, company outing, reception, wedding, children’s party or meeting location. We can arrange it for you, from train ride to museum visit, from coffee table to buffet.
Overnight stay at the STAR
Want to spend the night in a unique location? Wake up on a railway yard? At Museumspoorlijn STAR you can spend the night in the STARwagon. This special freight wagon has been converted by Atelier van Lieshout into a sleeping place from the pioneering era.
Theater on the train
The Blinders gang is planning a very important robbery on the train. It is up to you whether you will stop it or not. The Train Heist is a very unique theater game in which you make your own choices.