Swedish Railway Museum

The Swedish Railway Museum (in Swedish Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum ) with its two sites in the central Swedish town of Gävle and Ängelholm in southern Sweden is the most important railway museum in Sweden.

In Gävle it is housed in a former engine shed of the East Coast Railway, showing the most beautiful cars and locomotives of the 150 - year-old Swedish railway history.

In Ängelholm it is near the train station and the railway Ängelholmer school.

History

As early as 1906 began to be to collect historically valuable material for a future museum. Really one has started but only with the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö 1914. Collections from Malmö formed the basis for today's railway museum.

The first museum opened in 1915 in an office building of Stockholm Central Station, but not from 1942 to 1945, the exhibition halls for locomotives and cars were ready.

The model exhibition closed in 1946, but was reopened in the 1950s. Later this was moved to a location in the Stockholm Central Station.

But this place was not quite appropriate, so that you preferred the roundhouse of the Uppsala- Gävle Railway in Gävle.

Others

Another small railway museum is located in Dalhem on Gotland.