A railway museum is a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...
that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including:
locomotives (
steam,
diesel
Diesel may refer to:
* Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression
* Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines
* Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engi ...
, and
electric),
railway cars
A railroad car, railcar ( American and Canadian English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is ...
,
tram
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport ...
s, and
railway signalling
Railway signalling (), also called railroad signaling (), is a system used to control the movement of railway traffic. Trains move on fixed rails, making them uniquely susceptible to collision. This susceptibility is exacerbated by the enormo ...
equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
Africa
Egypt
*Egypt's Railway Museum (Cairo)
Kenya
*
Nairobi Railway Museum in
Nairobi
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Nigeria
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NRC/Legacy Railway Museum in
Lagos
Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until December 1991 fo ...
Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone National Railway Museum in
Freetown
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South Africa
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Outeniqua Transport Museum
The Outeniqua Transport Museum is a railway museum located in George, South Africa.
The Outeniqua Railway Museum is one of Transnet Heritage Foundation museums. Situated in the former PX-goods shed in George, the museum opened on 24 September ...
in
George
Sudan
* Railway Museum in
Atbarah
Atbara (sometimes Atbarah) ( ar, عطبرة ʿAṭbarah) is a city located in River Nile State in northeastern Sudan.
Because of its links to the railway industry, Atbara is also known as the "Railway City'.
As of 2007, its population is 11 ...
Zambia
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Railway Museum in
Livingstone
Zimbabwe
*
Bulawayo Railway Museum
Bulawayo Railway Museum (established 1972) is a railway museum located at Bulawayo railway station in Zimbabwe that houses several exhibitions on the history of the railway system in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. Its oldest exhibits date back to 18 ...
in
Bulawayo
Asia
China
*
Chan T'ien-yu Memorial Hall
Chan may refer to:
Places
* Chan (commune), Cambodia
*Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada
People
*Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田)
* Chan Caldw ...
,
Badaling
Badaling () is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately northwest of Beijing's city center, in Badaling Town, Yanqing District (within Beijing municipality). The portion of the wall running through the ...
, Beijing
*
China Railway Museum,
Beijing
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Da'anbei Railway Station,
Da'an,
Jilin Province
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Hong Kong Railway Museum
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Qingdao-Jinan Railway Museum,
Jinan,
Shandong Province
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Shanghai Railway Museum,
Shanghai
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Shenyang Railway Museum
Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu name Mukden, is a major Chinese sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Liaoning province. Located in central-north Liaoning, it is the provinc ...
,
Shenyang,
Liaoning Province
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Wuhan Metro Museum,
Wuhan,
Hubei Province
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Yunnan Railway Museum,
Kunming,
Yunnan Province
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...
India
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Coochbehar Railway Museum.
Coochbehar,
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
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Ghum Railway Museum,
Ghum,
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
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Heritage Rail Museum,
Bhusawal
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Rewari Railway Heritage Museum,
Rewari,
Haryana
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...
*
Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway,
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...
,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the second-most populous state in India and the second-most populous country subdi ...
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Kanpur Sangrahalaya
Kanpur Sangrahalaya / Kanpur Museum (Hindi: कानपुर पुरातत्व संग्रहालय) is the official museum in Kanpur, the industrial hub of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by the British as King Edward Memor ...
,
Kanpur,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...
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Gorakhpur Rail Museum,
Gorakhpur,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...
,
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Rail Museum, Howrah,
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
,
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
*
Mysore Rail Museum,
Mysore
Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude o ...
,
Karnataka
Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reor ...
*Railway Museum,
Hubli Junction railway station
Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji – Hubballi Junction commonly known as SSS Hubballi Junction railway station or Hubli Junction railway station (Station code: UBL), is a railway junction station under Hubli railway division of South Western Railway ...
,
Hubballi
Hubli, officially known as Hubballi, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. The twin cities Hubli–Dharwad form the second largest city in the state by area and population and the largest city in North Karnataka. Hubli is in Dharwad distr ...
,
Karnataka
Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reor ...
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National Rail Museum, New Delhi
*Patel Chowk Metro Museum,
Patel Chowk metro station
The Patel Chowk Metro Station is located on the Yellow Line of the Delhi Metro.
It is the southernmost station on the Yellow Line in Delhi to have parking facilities. Cycles are also available for rent. It houses the Metro Museum, which opene ...
,
New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Hous ...
*Smaranika Tram Museum,
Esplanade,
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...
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Railway Heritage Centre, Tiruchirappalli
The Railway Heritage Centre is a railway museum–cum– heritage centre for rail exhibits at Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Overview
The museum was set up with initial funding of in order to preserve old artifacts and photographs, ra ...
,
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
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Regional Railway Museum,
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
,
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
Indonesia
*
Indonesian Railway Museum of Ambarawa,
Central Java
* Bondowoso Rail and Train Museum,
Bondowoso Regency,
East Java
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* Museum of Transport of
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah,
Jakarta
* Sawahlunto Rail and Train Museum,
Sawahlunto,
West Sumatra
Israel
*
Turkish Railway Station, Beersheba (South)
* Historic Railway Station, Afula (North)
*
Israel Railway Museum
Israel Railway Museum ( he, מוזיאון רכבת ישראל) is the national railway museum of Israel, located in Haifa. The railway museum is owned by Israel Railways and is located at the Haifa East Railway Station which nowadays no longer s ...
, Haifa (National and North)
*
Jaffa Railway Station, Tel Aviv (Center)
*
Kfar Yehoshua Railway Station (North)
Japan
*
Katakami Heritage Railway, in
Misaki, Okayama
*
Keio Rail-Land
is a railway museum located next to Tama-Dōbutsukōen Station on the Keio Dōbutsuen Line in Hino, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation. Originally opening in March 2000, the museum was refurbished and ...
, in
Hino, Tokyo
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is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 187,048, and a population density of 6800 persons per km². The total area of the city was .
Geogra ...
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Kyoto Railway Museum, in
Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto
is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. First established in 1879, it has been merged and split, and took on its present boundaries in 1955, with the establishment of a separate Minami-ku.
Kyoto Tower an ...
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Kyushu Railway History Museum, in
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
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Ome Railway Park, in
Ome, Tokyo
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Otaru City General Museum, in
Otaru,
Hokkaido
is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...
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Railway Museum in
Saitama, Saitama
*
Romance Car Museum in
Kanagawa
*
SCMaglev and Railway Park
The is a railway museum owned by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) in Nagoya, Japan. The museum opened on 14 March 2011.
The museum features 39 full-size railway vehicles and one bus exhibit, train cab simulators, and railway model ...
in
Nagoya
*
Shikoku Railway Cultural Center, in
Saijō, Ehime
*
Subway Museum, in
Edogawa, Tokyo
*
Tobu Museum, in
Sumida, Tokyo
*
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum, in
Tsuyama, Okayama
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Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park, in
Annaka, Gunma
Closed museums
*
Modern Transportation Museum next to
Bentencho Station,
Minato-ku, Osaka (closed 2014)
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Sakuma Rail Park, in
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka (closed 2009)
Jordan
*
Hedjaz Jordan Railway Museum,
Amman
North Korea
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Pyongyang Railway Museum
Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populati ...
Pakistan
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Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum
Golra Sharif Railway Museum, also known as Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, is a railway museum located near Sector F-13 of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is located at the Golra Sharif railway station, a junction station in the Rawalpindi Divis ...
Saudi Arabia
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Hejaz Railway Museum
The Hejaz Railway Museum (Arabic: متحف سكة الحجاز) in Medina is a railway museum that was opened in 2006. It is on the grounds of the restored historic Ottoman railway station at Medina, locally called استسيون "Istasyōn" (), ...
South Korea
*
Korea Railroad Museum
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Sumjingang Railroad Village in Gokseung County
Sri Lanka
*
National railway museum, Kadugannawa
Taiwan
*
Changhua Roundhouse in
Changhua
Changhua ( Hokkien POJ: ''Chiong-hòa'' or ''Chiang-hòa''), officially known as Changhua City, is a county-administered city and the county seat of Changhua County in Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. For many centuries the site was ...
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Hamasen Museum of Taiwan Railway in
Kaohsiung
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Miaoli Railway Museum in
Miaoli
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National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum is a museum in York forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant ...
in
Taipei (opening in 2026)
*
Taiwan High Speed Rail Museum in
Zhongli, Taoyuan
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Takao Railway Museum
The Takao Railway Museum () is a museum in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
History
The museum was formerly the Kaohsiung Harbor Station, built during the Japanese period. Then called the , the station was the first railway station in ...
in
Kaohsiung
Thailand
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Railway Outdoor Museum, Bangkok
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Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi
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Train Cemetery, Bangkok
Turkey
*
Atatürk's Residence and Railway Museum,
Ankara
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Çamlık Railway Museum,
Selçuk,
İzmir Province
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Istanbul Railway Museum,
Istanbul
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İzmir Railway Museum,
İzmir
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Rahmi M. Koç Museum
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, Istanbul
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TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum, Ankara
Uzbekistan
*Railway Museum
Vietnam
*Heritage Railway, Da Lat Railway Station
Europe
Austria
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Austrian Railway Museum at
Vienna
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Railway and Mining Museum Ampflwang in Upper Austria
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Railway Museum Sigmundsherberg in Lower Austria
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Southern Railway Museum in Mürzzuschlag
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Strasshof Railway Museum in Lower Austria
Belarus
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Baranovichy Railway Museum
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Brest Railway Museum
Belgium
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Chemin de Fer à vapeur des Trois Vallées
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Dendermonde–Puurs Steam Railway
The Dendermonde–Puurs Steam Railway (''Stoomtrein Dendermonde-Puurs'') is a heritage railway situated in the Belgian provinces of East Flanders (''Oost-Vlaanderen'') and Antwerp (''Antwerpen'').
It runs from the town of Dendermonde to the town ...
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Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme
Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme (PFT) are a society dedicated to the preservation of Belgian railway heritage. They cover a number of aspects of railway enthusiasm, operating charter trains, maintaining heritage locomotives (steam and die ...
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Stoomcentrum Maldegem
Steamtrain Maldegem-Eeklo (SME), is a heritage railway located at Maldegem in northern Belgium. It is located at the former NMBS station. Standard gauge trains run on the line to Eeklo, where the SCM has its own station. A narrow gauge line ru ...
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Train World
Train World is a railway museum in Brussels, Belgium, and the official museum of the National Railway Company of Belgium. It is situated in the preserved buildings of Schaarbeek railway station and in a new shed built to its north. Although sched ...
Bulgaria
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National Transport Museum, Bulgaria
Czech Republic
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Czech Railway Museum at
Lužná (Rakovník District)
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National Technical Museum (Prague)
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Railway Museum KHKD at
Kněževes
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Railway Museum Jaroměř at
Jaroměř
Jaroměř (; german: Jermer) is a town in Náchod District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. It is known for the Josefov Fortress. Josefov is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban ...
(Železniční muzeum výtopna Jaroměř)
Denmark
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Bornholm Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
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Danish Railway Museum
The Danish Railway Museum ( da, Danmarks Jernbanemuseum) is the national railway museum of Denmark, located in the city of Odense. Established in 1975, it is situated in a former engine shed adjacent to the city's main railway station. It is the l ...
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Djursland Railway Museum
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Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum
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Struer Railway Museum
Estonia
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Estonian Railway Museum
Finland
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Finnish Railway Museum
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Jokioinen Museum Railway
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Savo Railway Museum
Savo Railway Museum ( fi, Savon Radan Museo) is a museum located in Pieksämäki, Finland
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France
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Cité du Train
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Musée des tramways à vapeur et des chemins de fer secondaires français
Germany
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Augsburg Railway Park,
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
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Bavaria
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Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil
''Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil'' is a small, Prussian locomotive depot at Hermeskeil, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany that dates from 1888. Until 1903, it was called a ''Maschinenstation'' (engine station).
The locomotive depot is ...
,
Hermeskeil,
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
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Bavarian Localbahn Society
The Bavarian Localbahn Society (''Bayerischer Localbahnverein e.V.'' or BLV), with its headquarters in Tegernsee, is a society that is concerned with the history of the railways in Bavaria. ''Localbahn'' (sometimes ''Lokalbahn''; literally: 'local ...
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Bayerisch Eisenstein
Bayerisch Eisenstein, until 1951 just Eisenstein ( cs, Bavorská Železná Ruda) is a village and a municipality in the Regen district, in Bavaria, Germany.
Geography
Bayerisch Eisenstein is part of Bayerischer Wald and borders the first Germa ...
, Bavaria
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Bavarian Railway Museum
The Bavarian Railway Museum (''Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum'' or BEM) is a railway museum based in the old locomotive sheds at Nördlingen station in Bavaria, Germany. It is home to more than 100 original railway vehicles and has been locate ...
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Nördlingen
Nördlingen (; Swabian: ''Nearle'' or ''Nearleng'') is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 20,674. It is located approximately east of Stuttgart, and northwest of Munich. It wa ...
, Bavaria
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Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum,
Bochum,
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
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Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz,
Ebermannstadt
Ebermannstadt (; East Franconian: ''Ärmaschdood'') is a town in the district of Forchheim, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 10 km northeast of Forchheim and 25 km southeast of Bamberg.
Districts
*Breitenbach
*Ebermannstadt
*Gassel ...
, Bavaria
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Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum,
Darmstadt-Kranichstein,
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are ...
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DB Museum
The Nuremberg Transport Museum (') is based in Nuremberg, Germany, and consists of the Deutsche Bahn's own DB Museum and the Museum of Communications ('). It also has two satellite museums at Koblenz-Lützel (the '' DB Museum Koblenz'') and Hall ...
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Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
, Bavaria
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DBK Historic Railway,
Crailsheim,
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
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Deutsches Museum,
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
, Bavaria
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Dieringhausen Railway Museum, Dieringhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Dresden Transport Museum
The Dresden Transport Museum ( German: Verkehrsmuseum Dresden) displays
vehicles of all modes of transport, such as railway, shipping, road and air traffic, under one roof.
The museum is housed in the Johanneum at the Neumarkt in Dresden. The J ...
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Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
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Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...
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Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn,
Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg
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Franconian Museum Railway, Nuremberg, Bavaria
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Frankfurt City Junction Line,
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...
, Hesse
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Freilassing Locomotive World,
Freilassing, Bavaria
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German Museum of Technology (Berlin)
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German Railway Society,
Bruchhausen-Vilsen
Bruchhausen-Vilsen is a municipality in the Diepholz district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated southeast of Bremen. The nearby communities of Berxen, Bruchhöfen, Bruchmühlen, Dille, Gehlbergen, Heiligenberg, Homfeld, Nenndorf, Rieth ...
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Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
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German Steam Locomotive Museum
The German Steam Locomotive Museum (''Deutsches Dampflokomotiv-Museum'') or DDM is located at the foot of the famous ''Schiefe Ebene'' ramp on the Ludwig South-North Railway in Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia. This region is in northern Bavaria, ...
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Neuenmarkt
Neuenmarkt is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest ...
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Wirsberg
Wirsberg is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest Ge ...
, Bavaria
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Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum,
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
, Lower Saxony
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Historic Railway, Frankfurt
The Historic Railway, Frankfurt (''Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt'') or HEF is a German museum railway in Frankfurt am Main. The society was founded in 1978 and its aim is the preservation of historic, valuable railway materiel in working order, ...
, Frankfurt, Hesse
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Mellrichstadt-Fladungen railway,
Fladungen
Fladungen is a town in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 11 km northwest of Ostheim, 20 km west of Meiningen, and 33 km east of Fulda. It is the northernmost town in Bavaria, ...
, Bavaria
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Munich Steam Locomotive Company, Munich, Bavaria
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Neustadt/Weinstraße Railway Museum,
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse,
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
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Nuremberg Transport Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria
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Railway Vehicle Preservation Society,
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...
, Baden-Württemberg
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Rügen Railway & Technology Museum,
Prora
The Colossus of Prora, commonly known as simply "Prora", is a building complex in the municipality of Binz on the island of Rügen, Germany. It was built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939 as part of the Strength Through Joy (Kraft durc ...
,
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...
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Saxon Railway Museum,
Chemnitz,
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...
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Selfkantbahn,
Gangelt,
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...
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Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
The Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany. Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e. V." which also runs the nearby Technik Museum Speyer.
Statistics
, the museum ...
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Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg
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South German Railway Museum,
Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg
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Stuttgart Straßenbahn Museum Zuffenhausen,
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...
, Baden-Württemberg
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Technik Museum Speyer,
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lie ...
, Rhineland Palatinate
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Traditionsbetriebswerk Staßfurt,
Stassfurt,
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making i ...
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Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde,
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg
Greece
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Railway Museum of Athens
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Railway Museum of Thessaloniki
The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Eleftherio-Kordelio, a municipality of the city of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A (french: Gare Militaire) o ...
Hungary
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Hungarian Railway Museum
The Magyar Vasúttörténeti Park ("Hungarian Railway History Park") is a railway museum located in Budapest, Hungary at a railway station and workshop of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV), the former Budapest North Depot. The museum covers ...
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Millennium Underground Museum
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Transport Museum of Budapest
Ireland
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Donegal Railway Centre
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Steam Museum, Straffan
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Whitehead Railway Museum
Italy
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Costituendo Musero Ferroviario di Primolano,
Primolano,
Vicenza
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Museo delle Industrie e del Lavoro del Saronnese,
Saronno,
Varese
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Museo Europeo dei Trasporti Ogliari, Ranco,
Varese
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Museo Ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio,
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into pr ...
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Museo Ferroviario Piemontese, Savigliano,
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
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Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti,
La Spezia
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Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa,
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adm ...
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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, dedicated to painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, is the largest science and technology museum in Italy. It was opened on 5 February 1953 and inaugurated by Prime Minister Alc ...
,
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...
Latvia
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Latvian Railway History Museum
Luxembourg
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Train 1900
Netherlands
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Noord-Nederlands Trein & Tram Museum
Noord-Nederlands Trein & Tram Museum (; en, North Netherlands Train & Tram Museum) is a railway museum in Zuidbroek, Netherlands. It is situated in the 19th-century building of the Zuidbroek railway station.Ton voor restauratie Zuidbroekster tre ...
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het Spoorwegmuseum
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Stoom Stichting Nederland
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Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele
The Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele (Goes-Borsele Steam Train) is a heritage railway operating from Goes through Kwadendamme to the village of Hoedekenskerke, in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands.
Route
The railway's headquarters are located at G ...
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Museumstoomtram Hoorn-Medemblik
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Stoomtrein Valkenburgse Meer
Stoomtrein Katwijk Leiden (formerly Stoomtrein Valkenburgse Meer, abbreviated SVM), is a narrow gauge heritage railway line around the Valkenburgse Meer in the south of Katwijk, Netherlands. Although the name translates as ''Steam Train Valke ...
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Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij
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Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
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Stichting Stadskanaal Rail
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Museum Buurtspoorweg
Norway
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Norwegian Railway Museum
The Norwegian Railway Museum ( no, Norsk Jernbanemuseum) is located at Hamar in Innlandet county, Norway. It is Norway's national railway museum.
History
Established in 1896, until 1912 the collection was housed on the second floor of the Hama ...
, Hamar
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Oslo Tramway Museum
Oslo Tramway Museum ( no, Sporveismuseet is a railway museum located at Majorstuen in Oslo, Norway. It is dedicated to the preservation of the Oslo Tramway, Oslo T-bane, Oslo trolleybus and buses used in Oslo. The museum is run by the non-profit ...
, Oslo
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Trondheim Tramway Museum
Trondheim Tramway Museum (''Sporveismuseet i Trondheim'') is a tram museum located in Trondheim, Norway. The museum offers in addition to a display of the tramway history of Trondheim also heritage trips with old trams on the sole remains of the ...
Poland
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Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew
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Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja (Polish ''Venice'') near Żnin (Poland) is an open-air museum collecting and exhibiting steam locomotives, passenger and freight cars, trolleys, railwaymen's tools, signalling equipment, contents of an old wa ...
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Railway and Industry Museum in Jaworzyna Śląska (Muzeum Przemysłu i Kolejnictwa w Jaworzynie Śląskiej), Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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Railway Museum in Chabówka village, near Rabka, Nowy Targ County
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Railway Museum in Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship
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Roundhouse Skierniewice in
Skierniewice
Skierniewice is a city in central Poland with 47,031 inhabitants (2021), situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), previously capital of Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Skierniewice County. The town is situate ...
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Warsaw Railway Museum
The Stacja Muzeum is located at the former Warsaw Główna PKP railway terminus and is very close to the Warszawa Ochota railway station. The museum's exhibits are divided into permanent and temporary collections — the latter being displaye ...
(Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie)
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Wolsztyn Steam Locomotive Roundhouse, the only depot in Europe with everyday scheduled passenger trains driven by steam locomotives
Portugal
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National Railway Museum Foundation, Entroncamento
Museum Branches of FMNF
* Arco de Baúlhe
* Bragança
* Chaves
* Lagos
* Lousado
* Macinhata do Vouga
* Nine
* Santarém
* Valença
Disused or Closed Museums
* Braga
* Estremoz
Museological Warehouses
* Barreiro
* Estremoz
* Livração
* Pampilhosa
* Peso da Régua
* Pocinho
* Sernada do Vouga
* Tua
Romania
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Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum
The Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum is an open-air railway museum located in the ''Triaj'' Park district of Reșița, Caraș-Severin County, Romania. Entry is free and there is no restriction on examining the exhibits. It claims it is the lar ...
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Sibiu Steam Locomotives Museum
Russia
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Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk at Seyatel station
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Museum of the Moscow Railway (Paveletskaya station),
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
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Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Moscow
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Russian Railway Museum,
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
* Railway museum at
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...
* Railway museum at
Pereslavl-Zalessky
Pereslavl-Zalessky ( rus, Переславль-Залесский, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈslavlʲ zɐˈlʲɛskʲɪj, lit. ''Pereslavl beyond the woods''), also known as Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the main Mos ...
(narrow gauge)
* Railway museum at
Rostov-on-Don
* Railway museum at
Yekaterinburg
Serbia
* Narrow Gauge Museum in Pozega
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Railway Museum in
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 mi ...
Slovenia
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Slovenian Railway Museum
The Slovenian Railway Museum, or Railway Museum of Slovenian railways ( sl, Železniški muzej Slovenskih železnic), in Ljubljana, Slovenia, located on Parmova ulica 35, is the national museum for Slovenia's railway history.
The museum is tas ...
Spain
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Basque Railway Museum
The Basque Railway Museum ( eu, Burdinbidearen Euskal Museoa, es, Museo Vasco del Ferrocarril) is located in Azpeitia, Basque Country, Spain. It has a collection of steam locomotives and other rolling stock as well as other items, most of them r ...
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Gijón Railway Museum (Museo del Ferrocarill de Asturias)
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Railway Centre and Museum in
Móra la Nova (Centre d'Interpretació del Ferrocarril de Móra la Nova)
* Railway Museum in Ponferrada (Museo del Ferrocarril)
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Railway Museum in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
(Museo del Ferrocarril)
* Railway Museum in Monforte de Lemos (Museo del Ferrocarril de Galicia)
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Railway Museum in Vilanova (Museu del Ferrocarril de Vilanova)(Vilanova Railway Museum)
Sweden
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Åmål-Årjäng Railway Society,
Åmål
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Anten-Gräfsnäs Narrow-Gauge Steam Railway,
Lake Anten
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Dalara and Western Farmlands Railway,
Åmål
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Eastern Götland Railway Museum,
Linköping
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Eastern Southernlands Railway,
Mariefred
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Gothenburg Nostalgia Tram,
Gothenburg
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Gotland Railway Association,
Dalhem
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Grängesberg Regional Railway Museum,
Grängesberg
Grängesberg () is a locality situated in Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 3,481 inhabitants in 2010.
The town was dominated by iron-ore extraction at Grängesberg ore field (Grängesbergs malmfält) from the 16th century to 19 ...
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Hagfors Railway Museum,
Hagfors
Hagfors is a locality and the seat of Hagfors Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 10,125 inhabitants in 2010.
Its history is traced to 1873, when it was decided to build two blast furnaces at the location.
The town of Hagfors plays host ...
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Järdaås Pine Forest Railway,
Jädraås
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Kristiantown Regional Museum,
Kristianstad
Kristianstad (, ; older spelling from Danish ''Christianstad'') is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 40,145 inhabitants in 2016. During the last 15 years, it has gone from a garrison town to a develo ...
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Landeryd's Railway Museum,
Landeryd
Landeryd is a locality situated in Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of Sweden ...
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Nässjö Railway Museum (in Swedish),
Nässjö
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Nora Mining District Historical Railway,
Nora
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Northbottom's Railway Museum,
Luleå
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Nynäshamn's Railway Museum,
Nynäshamn
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Railway Museum of Ängelholm,
Ängelholm
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Skara-Lundsbrunn Railways,
Skara
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Stockholm Streetcar Museum,
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...
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Swedish National Railway Museum,
Gävle
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Upsala-Lenna Jernväg
Upsala-Lenna Järnväg (ULJ) (literally: ''Upsala-Lenna Railway'', also nicknamed ''Lennakatten'') is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in Uppsala County, Sweden. It is long and is a part of the once extensive Roslagen network. The gauge is th ...
, Uppsala
Switzerland
*Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway
Ukraine
*Kiev Railway Museum
*Museum of History and Development of Donetsk Railway in Donetsk
*Museum of History and Technology of Southern Railway in Kharkiv
United Kingdom
North America
Canada
Costa Rica
*Museo Del Ferrocarril
Guatemala
* Guatemala City Railway Museum
* Quetzaltenango
Honduras
* El Progreso railway museum, Yoro
Mexico
*Ferrocarril Interoceánico
*Old Railway Station Museum, Old Railway Station and Railway Museum
United States
Oceania
Australia
* Archer Park Rail Museum
* Canberra Railway Museum
* Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum
* Lachlan Valley Railway
* National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide
* Newport Railway Museum, Champion Road, North Williamstown
* NSW Rail Museum, Thirlmere, New South Wales, Thirlmere
* Rail Motor Society, Paterson, New South Wales, Paterson
* Railway Museum (Western Australia), Railway Museum, Bassendean, Western Australia
* Richmond Vale Railway Museum
* Rosewood Railway Museum, Rosewood, Queensland, Rosewood
* Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre
* The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich, Queensland
* Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum
New Zealand
South America
Argentina
* Ferroclub Argentino: Centros de Preservacion Remedios de Escalada, Lynch y Tolosa
* Museo Ferroviario de la ciudad de Campana (Buenos Aires)
Brazil
*ABPF, Araraquara Railway Museum
*ABPF, Jaguariuna Railway Museum
*Juiz de Fora Railway Museum :pt:Museu Ferroviário de Juiz de Fora, (pt)
*Museu of Train of Rio de Janeiro
*ABPF, Paranapiacaba Technologic Railway Museum
*ABPF, Rio Claro Railway Museum (future)
Peru
*National Railway Museum (Peru)
See also
* List of railway museums in the United Kingdom
* List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines
References
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