Railway Museum of Athens

The Railway Museum is an art museum in Athens Sepolia the north of Athens ( Odos Siokou 4). It collects and documents the history of rail transport in Greece and is maintained by the OSE. Admission is free.

History

The museum was founded in 1979 on the initiative of employees of the OSE in an earlier small railroad depot, which has been converted into a museum. At that time there were no other railway museums in Greece, so that vehicles tram of Athens and the Athens Metro ( an Electric) were passed there. Today, there are other regional railway museums, including the Athens Metro has its own and offers rides on historic trains.

As the museum suffers from an acute lack of space, the exhibits in the building mostly confined to the oldest, who were considered a museum already in the 1970s, such as various locomotives of the 19th century as the Tiryns from Krauss & Co. from 1884, a locomotive and a carriage of funicular Kalavrita, a smoking car of the Sultan Abdulaziz and a saloon car of 1888, the royal family of Greece.