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List of railway museums

List of railway museums

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A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.

The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen is a railway museum situated south of the city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Africa

Egypt

  • Egyptian Railway Museum (Cairo)[1]

Kenya

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Sudan

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Asia

China

1,4335 mm, 600 mm, and 1,000 mm vehicles in Yunnan Railway Museum
Hong Kong Railway Museum

India

Patiala State Monorail System train at National Rail Museum, New Delhi, India
Steam Locomotive B-5112 in Ambarawa Railway Museum - Indonesia

Indonesia

Front view of Bondowoso Rail and Train Museum, built by State Railway Company of the Dutch East Indies
Modern Transportation Museum, Osaka

Israel

Japan

Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park, Japan

Closed museums

Jordan

Malaysia

Mongolia

North Korea

  • Pyongyang Railway Museum

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

  • Singapore Railways Museum[19]

Rail Corridor[20]

South Korea

Korea Railroad Museum, near Uiwang Station
  • Korea Railroad Museum[23]
  • Sumjingang Railroad Village in Gokseung County

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Thailand

  • Railway Outdoor Museum, Bangkok
  • Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi[28]
  • Train Cemetery, Bangkok

Turkey

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

  • Heritage Railway, Da Lat Railway Station[31]


Europe

Austria

Southern Railway Museum Mürzzuschlag, Styria
Strasshof Railway Museum, Lower Austria
Main article: List of railway museums in Austria
  • Austrian Railway Museum at Vienna
  • Railway and Mining Museum Ampflwang in Upper Austria
  • Railway Museum Sigmundsherberg in Lower Austria
  • Southern Railway Museum in Mürzzuschlag
  • Strasshof Railway Museum in Lower Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Railway Museum Jaroměř

Denmark

Estonia

Estonian Railway Museum
  • Estonian Railway Museum

Finland

Finnish Railway Museum

France

Germany

Main article: List of railway museums in Germany

Greece

Hungary

Hungarian Railway Museum

Ireland

Italy

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Milan

Latvia

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Museum Branches of FMNF

  • Arco de Baúlhe[50]
  • Bragança[51]
  • Chaves[52]
  • Lousado
  • Macinhata do Vouga
  • Nine
  • Santarém
  • Valença[53]

Disused or Closed Museums

Museological Warehouses

  • Barreiro
  • Estremoz
  • Livração
  • Pampilhosa
  • Peso da Régua
  • Pocinho
  • Sernada do Vouga
  • Tua

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Catalan Railway Museum

Sweden

Switzerland

Main article: List of railway museums in Switzerland

Ukraine

  • Kiev Railway Museum
  • Museum of History and Development of Donetsk Railway in Donetsk[86]
  • Museum of History and Technology of Southern Railway in Kharkiv
  • Lviv Railway History Museum in Lviv[87]

United Kingdom and Crown dependencies

Main article: List of railway museums in the United Kingdom
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Locomotives arranged around the turntable in the Great Hall of the National Railway Museum

North America

Canada

More information Museum, City ...

Costa Rica

  • Museo Del Ferrocarril

Guatemala

Guatemala City railway museum

Honduras

Mexico

United States

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Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Main article: List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines

South America

Argentina

  • Ferroclub Argentino: Centros de Preservacion Remedios de Escalada, Lynch y Tolosa
  • Museo Ferroviario de la ciudad de Campana (Buenos Aires)[94]

Chile

Brazil

Peru

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Railway museums.

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