List of railway museums

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.

Africa

Egypt

Egypt's Railway Museum (Cairo)

Sudan

Railway Museum in Atbarah, Sudan

Zambia

Railway Museum in Livingstone, Zambia

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo Railway Museum in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Asia

China

China Railway Museum, Beijing
Chan T'ien-yu Memorial Hall, Badaling, Beijing
Hong Kong Railway Museum
Yunnan Railway Museum, Kunming, Yunnan Province
Shanghai Railway Museum, Shanghai
Wuhan Metro Museum, Wuhan, Hubei Province
Qingdao-Jinan Railway Museum, Jinan, Shandong Province
Shenyang Railway Museum, Shenyang, Liaoning Province
Da'anbei Railway Station, Da'an, Jilin Province

India

National Rail Museum, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India.
Mysore Rail Museum, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Regional Railway Museum, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Railway Heritage Centre, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Ghum Railway Museum, Ghum, West Bengal, India.
Eastern Railway Museum, Howrah, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Kanpur Railway Museum, Old Kanpur, Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh, India.

Indonesia

Taman Mini, Jakarta - Indonesia
Ambarawa Railway Museum, Central Java, Indonesia.^[1]

Israel

Israel Railway Museum, Haifa (National and North)
Beersheba Turkish Railway Station (South)
Jaffa Railway Station, Tel Aviv (Center)
Jerusalem Railway Station (Center)

Japan

Keio Rail-Land, in Hino, Tokyo
Ome Railway Park, in Ome, Tokyo
The Railway Museum in Saitama, Saitama
SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya
Tobu Museum, in Sumida, Tokyo
Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum, in Tsuyama, Okayama
Kyoto Railway Museum, in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, opening spring 2016
Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park, in Annaka, Gunma

Closed museums

Modern Transportation Museum next to Bentencho Station, Minato-ku, Osaka (closed 2014)
Sakuma Rail Park, in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka (closed 2009)

Pakistan

Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum

Saudi Arabia

Hejaz Railway Museum

North Korea

Pyongyang Railway Museum

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South Korea

Korea Railroad Museum
Sumjingang Railroad Village in Gokseung County

Sri Lanka

National railway museum, Kadugannawa

Taiwan

Turkey

Uzbekistan

Railway Museum

Europe

Austria

Austrian Railway Museum at Vienna

Belgium

Belarus

Bulgaria

National Transport Museum, Bulgaria

Czech Republic

National Technical Museum (Prague)
Czech Railway Museum at Lužná (Rakovník District)
Railway Museum Jaroměř at Jaroměř (Železniční muzeum výtopna Jaroměř)

Denmark

Estonia

Estonian Railway Museum

Finland

France

Germany

Augsburg Railway Park, Augsburg, Bavaria
Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil, Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate
Bavarian Localbahn Society, Bayerisch Eisenstein, Bavaria
Bavarian Railway Museum, Nördlingen, Bavaria
Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz, Ebermannstadt, Bavaria
Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum, Darmstadt-Kranichstein, Hesse
DB Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria
DBK Historic Railway, Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg
Deutsches Museum, Munich, Bavaria
Dieringhausen Railway Museum, Dieringhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dresden Transport Museum, Dresden, Saxony
Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn, Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg
Franconian Museum Railway, Nuremberg, Bavaria
Frankfurt City Junction Line, Frankfurt, Hesse
Freilassing Locomotive World, Freilassing, Bavaria
German Museum of Technology (Berlin)
German Railway Society, Bruchhausen-Vilsen, Lower Saxony
German Steam Locomotive Museum, Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, Bavaria
Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum, Hanover, Lower Saxony
Historic Railway, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hesse
Mellrichstadt-Fladungen railway, Fladungen, Bavaria
Munich Steam Locomotive Company, Munich, Bavaria
Neustadt/Weinstraße Railway Museum, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Rhineland-Palatinate
Nuremberg Transport Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria
Railway Vehicle Preservation Society, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Rügen Railway & Technology Museum, Prora, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Saxon Railway Museum, Chemnitz, Saxony
Selfkantbahn, Gangelt, North Rhine-Westphalia
Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg
South German Railway Museum, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart Straßenbahn Museum Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Technik Museum Speyer, Speyer, Rhineland Palatinate
Traditionsbetriebswerk Staßfurt, Stassfurt, Saxony-Anhalt
Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg

Greece

Ireland

Donegal Railway Centre

Italy

Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia, Milan^[2]
Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti, La Spezia –^[3]
Museo Ferroviario Piemontese, Savigliano, Turin -^[4]
Museo Europeo dei Trasporti Ogliari, Ranco, Varese -^[5]
Museo Ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio, Trieste [^[6]
Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa, Naples

Hungary

Latvia

Latvian Railway History Museum [10]

Luxembourg

Train 1900 [11]

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew
Railway Museum in Chabówka village, near Rabka,a southern Polish town in the Nowy Targ County
Railway Museum in Kościerzyna is a Polish railway museum located in a now defunct locomotive depot in Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Railway Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie) is located in the former Warsaw Główna PKP railway terminus.
Railway and Industry Museum in Jaworzyna Śląska (Muzeum Przemysłu i Kolejnictwa w Jaworzynie Śląskiej) is located in a former steam locomotive depot in Jaworzyna Śląska,Lower Silesian voievodship.
Wolsztyn Steam Locomotive Roundhouse is the only depot in Europe with everyday scheduled passenger trains driven by steam locomotives.

Portugal

National Railway Museum Foundation, Entroncamento

Museum Branches of FMNF^[7]

Arco de Baúlhe
Bragança
Chaves
Lagos
Lousado
Macinhata do Vouga
Nine
Santarém
Valença

Disused or Closed Museums^[8]

Braga
Estremoz

Museological Warehouses

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

Romania

Resita Locomotive Museum

Russia

Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St Petersburg / St Petersburg Outdoor Train Museum^[9]
Rizhsky Rail Terminal / Rizhsky (railroad station) in Moscow^[10]
the Museum of the Moscow Railway at Paveletsky Rail Terminal Moscow^[11]
Seyatel' station at Novosibirsk^[12]
Railway museum at Rostov-on-Don^[13]
Railway museum at Nizhny Novgorod^[14]
Railway museum at Yekaterinburg
Railway museum at Pereslavl-Zalessky (narrow gauge)^[15]

Serbia

Railway Museum in Belgrade
Narrow Gauge Museum in Pozega

Slovenia

Slovenian Railway Museum

Spain

Azpeitia Railway Museum (Basque Railway museum)
Gijón Railway Museum (Museo del Ferrocarill de Asturias)
Railway Museum in Madrid (Museo del Ferrocarril)
Railway Museum in Vilanova (Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya)(Catalonia Railway Museum)
Railway Interpretation Center in Móra la Nova (Centre d'Interpretació del Ferrocarril de Móra la Nova)

Sweden

Switzerland

Blonay-Chamby

Ukraine

Kiev Railway Museum

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

Guatemala

Honduras

El Progreso railway museum, Yoro

Mexico

United States

Oceania

Australia

Archer Park Railway Station
Australian Railway Historical Society Museum, Champion Road, North Williamstown^[38]
Canberra Railway Museum^[39]
Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum
Lachlan Valley Railway
New South Wales Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere
National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide
Rail Motor Society, Paterson
Richmond Vale Railway Museum
Rosewood Railway Museum, Rosewood [12]
Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre^[40]
The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich, Queensland [13]
Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

Museo Ferroviario de la ciudad de Campana (Buenos Aires)^[41]

Brazil

Costa Rica

Museo Del Ferrocarril

Peru

National Railway Museum (Peru)

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