China Railway Museum

The Chinese Railway Museum (Chinese中国 铁道 博物馆, pinyin Zhongguo Tiedao Bowuguan, English China Railway Museum) is an agency of the Chinese Railway ( CNR) with several locations in Beijing:

• A vehicle depot is located in Chaoyang District, Beijing. It was opened in 2002 and has an area of 16,500 square meters. Here locomotives from the period after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 are mainly shown.
• In the city center, on the southeast corner of the square of Heavenly Peace, in the reception building of the former station Qianmen mainly documents and photographs from the past and present of the Chinese railway will be shown on four levels. In the basement there is a model of the Lhasa railway and other models of reception buildings at the high-speed lines in China. In the museum there is also the driving simulator of a CRH3 high-speed train, which also " rides " for visitors are carried out, which is chargeable. The museum admission is charged.