List of railway museums

  • 3.1 Canada
  • 3.2 United States
  • 3.3 Mexico
  • 3.4 Guatemala
  • 3.5 Bermuda
  • 3.6 Brazil
  • 3.7 Peru
  • 4.1 China
  • 4.2 India
  • 4.3 Japan
  • 4.4 Thailand
  • 4.5 Rest of Asia
  • 5.1 Australia
  • 5.2 New Zealand 5.2.1 North Island
  • 5.2.2 South Island

A Railway Museum is a transport museum, which is dedicated to railway history. As exhibits, in addition to rail vehicles and railway technical equipment mostly topic-related objects of all kinds, such as other vehicles, maps of the route network, tickets, course books, other historical documents, uniforms and models are to be found.

Another form for the preservation and operation of historic rail vehicles are museum railways.

On the history, see the main article history of the railway. He treats transnational aspects of railway history. For country-specific information, see the history of the railway (disambiguation).

The history of the railway is concerned as a branch of traditional history of technology in the research and documentation of the history of rail transport, the associated technology and its technological development. More recently, in addition, the approach of an interdisciplinary cultural history is becoming increasingly important. In addition, the keywords infrastructure, transport and industrial revolution are relevant.

There are, among others, the following railway museums:

Europe

Germany

  • Location, name of the museum

Baden-Wurttemberg

Bavaria

Berlin

Brandenburg

Hamburg

Hesse

Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania

Lower Saxony

North Rhine -Westphalia

Rhineland -Palatinate

Saarland

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

Austria

  • Lower Austria, first - eisenbahn.at
  • Lower Austria, Railway Museum Schwarzenau
  • Lower Austria, Railway Museum Schwechat
  • Lower Austria, Railway Museum Sigmundsherberg
  • Lower Austria, Railway Museum Strasshof
  • Upper Austria, Berg bei Rohrbach, Mühlkreisbahn Museum
  • Upper Austria Upper Austrian locomotive pool AMPFLWANG Railway and Mining Museum
  • Upper Austria, Mondsee, Salzkammergut Local Railway Museum
  • Styria, Railway Museum Knittelfeld
  • Styria, Miirzzuschlag, Southern Railway Museum
  • Styria, Technical Railway Museum Lieboch
  • Styria, Front Mount, Erzbergbahn Museum
  • Vienna, Vienna Technical Museum

Switzerland

Belgium

Flanders

Wallonia

Bulgaria

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

(Region, department, location ( - steep), museum)

Greece

Great Britain

England

  • County Durham, North of England Open Air Museum, - iron and trams ( Open Air Museum )
  • Museum of British Transport in Clapham
  • National Museum of Science and Industry in London
  • Shildon Locomotion Museum at Shildon
  • Wiltshire, Swindon, Swindon Railway Village Museum,
  • York, National Railway Museum

Scotland

  • Glasgow Museum of Transport,

Northern Ireland

  • Belfast, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, - all transport modes ( Operator: National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland [ MAGNI ] )

Ireland

Italy

( Region, city, Italian name of the museum, possibly of further articles )

Source railtouritalia.com

Croatia

(Place, name of the museum, articles )

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

  • Fond-de -Gras, Industry and Railway Park

Netherlands

Norway

  • Norsk Jernbanemuseum Hamar

Poland

(Province, city, item) Source is the "Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2010"

Portugal

( From North to South )

Romania

Russia

Sweden

The main points of the Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum located in Gävle and Ängelholm

Serbia

  • Railway Museum Belgrade ( Museum of the Serbian Railways ŽS )

Slovakia

Slovenia

  • Railway Museum Ljubljana ( Museum of the Slovenian Railways )
  • Museum Parenzana Izola

Spain

( Region, city, name of the museum (in Spanish) )

Czechia

Turkey

Ukraine

Hungary

Belarus

Africa

America

Canada

  • Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Railway Museum
  • Alberta, Stirling, Galt Historic Railway Park
  • British Columbia, Cranbrook, Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
  • British Columbia, Port Moody, Port Moody Station Museum
  • British Columbia, Prince George, Railway and Forestry Museum
  • British Columbia, Revelstoke Railway Museum
  • Manitoba, Winnipeg, Winnipeg Railway Museum
  • New Brunswick, Hillsborough, Salem and Hillsborough Railroad,
  • Newfoundland, St. John's, Railway Coastal Museum
  • Ontario, Elgin County, St. Thomas, Elgin County Railway Museum
  • Ontario, Rockwood, Halton County Radial Railway
  • Ontario, Greater Sudbury, Capreol, Northern Ontario Railway Museum,
  • Quebec, Saint-Constant, Canadian Railway Museum
  • Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Railway Museum

United States

Mexico

( State, city, name of the museum )

Guatemala

  • Guatemala City

Bermuda

  • Hamilton Parish, Bermuda Railway Museum

Brazil

Peru

  • Tacna, Tacna Railway Museum

Asia

China

India

Japan

  • (Region, prefecture, city, name of the museum, source)

Thailand

Rest of Asia

Australia and New Zealand

Australia

New Zealand

North Island

  • Region Auckland, Auckland, Western Springs, Museum of Transport and Technology, all modes
  • Wellington Region, Wairarapa District, Carterton, Wairarapa Railway Restoration Society
  • Wellington Region, South Wairarapa District, Featherston (New Zealand), Fell Engine Museum
  • Wellington Region, Kapiti Coast District, Paekakariki, Rail and Heritage Museum
  • Region Wellington, Wellington, Wellington Cable Car Museum

South Island

  • Region Canterbury, Timaru, Pleasant Point, Pleasant Point Museum and Railway on the South Island (New Zealand)
  • West Coast Region, Grey District, in Greymouth, Shantytown, some steam locomotives
  • Region Canterbury, Ashburton District, Ashburton, Plains Vintage Railway, some locomotives
  • Canterbury region, Christchurch, Ferrymead Heritage Park, more or less Transport Museum
  • Region Canterbury, Timaru, Pleasant Point, Pleasant Point Museum and Railway
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