A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including:

locomotive A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the Power (physics), motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather referred to as a multiple unit, Motor coach (rail), motor ...

s (

steam Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, and sometimes also an aerosol of liquid water droplets, or air. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization ...

, diesel, and electric),

railway cars A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is ...

, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.

Africa

Egypt

*Egypt's Railway Museum (Cairo)

Kenya

Nairobi Railway Museum The Nairobi Railway Museum is a railway museum in Nairobi, Kenya, adjacent to Nairobi railway station. Containing exhibits from the defunct East African Railways, it was opened in 1971 by East African Railways and Harbours Corporation. It is oper ...

in Nairobi

Nigeria

* NRC/Legacy Railway Museum in Lagos

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum is a railway museum in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The museum was opened in 2005. History The Sierra Leone Government Railway closed in 1974. A collection of rolling stock was retained at the former railway workshops to f ...

in Freetown

South Africa

* Outeniqua Transport Museum in George

Sudan

* Railway Museum in

Atbarah Atbara (sometimes Atbarah) ( ar, عطبرة ʿAṭbarah) is a city located in River Nile State in northeastern Sudan. Because of its links to the railway industry, Atbara is also known as the "Railway City'. As of 2007, its population is 11 ...

Zambia

* Railway Museum in

Livingstone Livingstone may refer to: * Livingstone (name), a Scottish surname and a given name. **David Livingstone (1813–1873), Scottish physician, missionary and explorer, after whom many other Livingstones are named Places *Livingstone Falls, on the Con ...

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo Railway Museum Bulawayo Railway Museum (established 1972) is a railway museum located at Bulawayo railway station in Zimbabwe that houses several exhibitions on the history of the railway system in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. Its oldest exhibits date back to 18 ...

in Bulawayo

Asia

China

Yunnan Railway Museum - rolling stock - P1340773

Chan T'ien-yu Memorial Hall Chan may refer to: Places *Chan (commune), Cambodia *Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada People *Chan (surname), romanization of various Chinese surnames (including 陳, 曾, 詹, 戰, and 田) * Chan Caldwe ...

, Badaling, Beijing *

China Railway Museum The China Railway Museum () is a Chinese museum preserving locomotives that have operated on the railways of the People's Republic of China. The museum offers a total exhibition space of 16500m² and 8 exhibition tracks. The museum is located ...

, Beijing * Da'anbei Railway Station, Da'an, Jilin Province * Hong Kong Railway Museum * Qingdao-Jinan Railway Museum,

Jinan Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...

Shandong Province Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...

Shanghai Railway Museum Shanghai North railway station (), located on East Tianmu Road, was the main railway station of Shanghai during most of the 20th century. It was closed in 1987 and a replica of the original 1909 building, erected on the same site, is now the . Th ...

, Shanghai * Shenyang Railway Museum,

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

Liaoning Province Liaoning () is a coastal provinces of China, province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and i ...

Wuhan Metro Museum Wuhan Metro Museum () is a transport museum located in Jianghan District, Wuhan, Hubei, China, next to the D1 exit of the Wangjiadun East Station on Line 2, Wuhan Metro. Its main exhibition includes the culture and history of Wuhan Metro, as w ...

, Wuhan, Hubei Province *

Yunnan Railway Museum Kunming North railway station (昆明北站, ''Kūnmíng Běi Zhàn'') is an old railway station in Panlong District, Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province. It was the terminal of the metre gauge Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, but now o ...

Kunming Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ...

, Yunnan Province KCR-siralexander

India

Coochbehar Railway Museum Cooch Behar (), or Koch Bihar, is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. It is in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas at . Cooch Behar is the only planned city in the ...

. Coochbehar, West Bengal *

Ghum Railway Museum Ghum may refer to: * Another spelling for the city Qom in Iran * Ghum, West Bengal, a small hilly locality in the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region of West Bengal, India ** Ghum Monastery Old Ghoom Monastery is the popular name of Yiga Choeling. ...

, Ghum, West Bengal *

Heritage Rail Museum Heritage may refer to: History and society * A heritage asset is a preexisting thing of value today ** Cultural heritage is created by humans ** Natural heritage is not * Heritage language Biology * Heredity, biological inheritance of physical c ...

, Bhusawal * Rewari Railway Heritage Museum,

Rewari Rewari is a city and a Municipal Council in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana. King of Rewari is Rao Onkar Singh.It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km from Delhi

, Haryana * Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway, Pune,

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

Kanpur Sangrahalaya Kanpur Sangrahalaya / Kanpur Museum (Hindi: कानपुर पुरातत्व संग्रहालय) is the official museum in Kanpur, the industrial hub of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by the British as King Edward Memo ...

Kanpur Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...

, Uttar Pradesh *

Gorakhpur Rail Museum Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometers east of the state capital Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur ...

, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, * Rail Museum, Howrah, Kolkata, West Bengal * Mysore Rail Museum, Mysore, Karnataka *Railway Museum, Hubli Junction railway station, Hubballi, Karnataka * National Rail Museum, New Delhi *Patel Chowk Metro Museum, Patel Chowk metro station, New Delhi *Smaranika Tram Museum, Esplanade, West Bengal * Railway Heritage Centre, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu * Regional Railway Museum, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Patiala State Monorail System

Indonesia

* Indonesian Railway Museum of Ambarawa,

Central Java Central Java ( id, Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java. Its administrative capital is Semarang. It is bordered by West Java in the west, the Indian Ocean and the Special Region of Yogyakarta in t ...

* Bondowoso Rail and Train Museum, Bondowoso Regency, East Java * Museum of Transport of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah,

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

* Sawahlunto Rail and Train Museum, Sawahlunto, West Sumatra Bentencho2

Israel

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

Kfar Yehoshua Railway Station Kfar Yehoshua ( he, כְּפַר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, ''lit.'' Joshua's Village) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located between Haifa and Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . ...

(North)

Japan

* Katakami Heritage Railway, in

Misaki, Okayama is a town located in Kume District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of March 1, 2004, the town has an estimated population of 18,776 and a density of 76.57 persons per km². The total area is 232.15 km². Misaki was founded on March 22, 200 ...

Keio Rail-Land is a railway museum located next to Tama-Dōbutsukōen Station on the Keio Dōbutsuen Line in Hino, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation. Originally opening in March 2000, the museum was refurbished an ...

, in Hino, Tokyo * Kyoto Railway Museum, in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto * Kyushu Railway History Museum, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka * Ome Railway Park, in Ome, Tokyo *

Otaru City General Museum The is a museum located in Temiya 1-chome, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, which features exhibits related to the history and nature of Hokkaido, transportation in the area (including railways), and science. Overview On July 14, 2007 ( Heisei 19), the ...

, in Otaru, Hokkaido * Railway Museum in

Saitama, Saitama is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance. Being in the Greater Tokyo Area and lying 1 ...

Romance Car Museum Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, ...

in Kanagawa * SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya * Shikoku Railway Cultural Center, in Saijō, Ehime * Subway Museum, in Edogawa, Tokyo *

Tobu Museum The is a railway museum in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It opened in May 1989, and is operated by Tobu Railway. The museum was closed from January 2009 until June 2009 for refurbishment.全国鉄道博物館ガイド (Nationwide Railway Museum Guide), ...

, in Sumida, Tokyo * Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum, in Tsuyama, Okayama * 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)

Jordan

* Hedjaz Jordan Railway Museum,

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

North Korea

Pyongyang Railway Museum Pyongyang (, , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2 ...

Pakistan

Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum Golra Sharif Railway Museum, also known as Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, is a railway museum located near Sector F-13 of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is located at the Golra Sharif railway station, a junction station in the Rawalpindi Division ...

Saudi Arabia

Hejaz Railway Museum The Hejaz Railway Museum ( Arabic: متحف سكة الحجاز) in Medina is a railway museum that was opened in 2006. It is on the grounds of the restored historic Ottoman railway station at Medina, locally called استسيون "Istasyōn" ...

South Korea

Korea Railroad Museum Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic of ...

* Sumjingang Railroad Village in Gokseung County

Sri Lanka

* National railway museum, Kadugannawa

Taiwan

Changhua Roundhouse Changhua Roundhouse ( zh, t=彰化扇形車庫, p=Zhānghuà Shànxíng Chēkù) is a railway roundhouse operated by the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) in Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan. The roundhouse is located directly north of Cha ...

in Changhua * Hamasen Museum of Taiwan Railway in

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City (Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsi ...

Miaoli Railway Museum The Miaoli Railway Museum () is a railway park in Miaoli City, Miaoli County, Taiwan. History The museum will open up a new railway park within its vicinity in 2023, which will display several locomotives and railway-related artifacts. It is bu ...

in Miaoli * National Railway Museum in Taipei (opening in 2026) *

Taiwan High Speed Rail Museum The Taiwan High Speed Rail Museum () is a museum in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. History The museum was opened on 5 January 2017 in a ceremony attended by Premier Lin Chuan and Transportation and Communications Minister Hochen Tan. ...

in Zhongli, Taoyuan *

Takao Railway Museum The Takao Railway Museum () is a museum in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The museum was formerly the Kaohsiung Harbor Station, built during the Japanese period. Then called the , the station was the first railway station in Ka ...

Thailand

Railway Outdoor Museum, Bangkok Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

* Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi *

Train Cemetery, Bangkok In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often kn ...

Turkey

Atatürk's Residence and Railway Museum Atatürk's Residence and Railway Museum ( tr, Atatürk Konutu ve Demiryolları Müzesi) is a national historic house and railway museum in Ankara, Turkey. It was originally the management building of the Turkish State Railways. Mustafa Kemal At ...

, Ankara * Çamlık Railway Museum,

Selçuk Selçuk is a town in İzmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located northeast of the ancient city of Ephesus, that was once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its previous Greek name, Ag ...

, İzmir Province * Istanbul Railway Museum, Istanbul * İzmir Railway Museum, İzmir *

Rahmi M. Koç Museum The Rahmi M. Koç Museum is a private industrial museum in Istanbul, Turkey dedicated to the history of transport, industry and communications. Rahmi M. Koç, member of the wealthiest dynasty in Turkey and retired chairman (currently the honorar ...

, Istanbul * TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum, Ankara

Uzbekistan

*Railway Museum

Vietnam

*Heritage Railway, Da Lat Railway Station

Europe

Austria

Strasshof - Eisenbahnmuseum, Dampflokomotiven

Austrian Railway Museum Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example ...

at Vienna *

Railway and Mining Museum Ampflwang Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pr ...

in Upper Austria *

Railway Museum Sigmundsherberg Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

in Lower Austria * Southern Railway Museum in Mürzzuschlag *

Strasshof Railway Museum Strasshof an der Nordbahn (meaning ''Strasshof at the Northern railway''; Central Bavarian: ''Strasshof aun da Noadbauh'') is a satellite town 25 km east of Vienna, Austria. A historical locomotive built by LOFAG is displayed in the town. ...

in Lower Austria

Belarus

* Baranovichy Railway Museum *

Brest Railway Museum The Brest Railway Museum or Brest Museum of Rail Equipment is the first outdoor railway museum in Belarus, located in Brest Brest may refer to: Places *Brest, Belarus **Brest Region **Brest Airport **Brest Fortress * Brest, Kyustendil Province, ...

Belgium

* Chemin de Fer à vapeur des Trois Vallées *

Dendermonde–Puurs Steam Railway The Dendermonde–Puurs Steam Railway (''Stoomtrein Dendermonde-Puurs'') is a heritage railway situated in the Belgian provinces of East Flanders (''Oost-Vlaanderen'') and Antwerp (''Antwerpen''). It runs from the town of Dendermonde to the town o ...

Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme (PFT) are a society dedicated to the preservation of Belgian railway heritage. They cover a number of aspects of railway enthusiasm, operating charter trains, maintaining heritage locomotives ( steam and dies ...

Stoomcentrum Maldegem Steamtrain Maldegem-Eeklo (SME), is a heritage railway located at Maldegem in northern Belgium. It is located at the former NMBS station. Standard gauge trains run on the line to Eeklo, where the SCM has its own station. A narrow gauge line runs ...

* Train World

Bulgaria

National Transport Museum, Bulgaria The National Transport Museum ( bg, Национален музей на транспорта; ''Natsionalen Muzey na Transporta'') in Ruse, Bulgaria, is situated on the bank of the Danube, in the country's first railway station, built in 1866. T ...

Czech Republic

Czech Railway Museum Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places *Czech, ...

at Lužná (Rakovník District) * National Technical Museum (Prague) *

Railway Museum KHKD Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

at Kněževes *

Railway Museum Jaroměř Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

at Jaroměř (Železniční muzeum výtopna Jaroměř)

Denmark

Bornholm Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Bornholm () is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland. Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. It has usually been ruled by ...

* Danish Railway Museum * Djursland Railway Museum *

Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum (Danish: Sporvejsmuseet Skjoldenæsholm), also referred to as the Danish Tramway Museum, is an open-air museum dedicated to vintage trams and buses. It is located south-west of Copenhagen, Denmark, between Ringsted ...

Struer Railway Museum Struer may refer to: * Struer Municipality, a place in Denmark ** Struer, Denmark, a town in the municipality * Struer Vandtårn * Struer Idrætspark * Holger F. Struer Holger F. Struer (22 March 1846 17 June 1931) was a Danish chemist and fo ...

Estonia

Krauss-Maffei auruvedur 52 3368 Haapsalus

Estonian Railway Museum Estonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe * Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent * Estonian language Estonian ( ) is a Finnic language, written in the ...

Finland

* Finnish Railway Museum * Jokioinen Museum Railway * Savo Railway Museum

France

* Cité du Train *

Musée des tramways à vapeur et des chemins de fer secondaires français The Musée des tramways à vapeur et des chemins de fer secondaires français (Museum of French steam tramways and secondary railways — MTVS) is located alongside Valmondois railway station, in the small town of Butry-sur-Oise in the departement ...

Germany

* Augsburg Railway Park, Augsburg, Bavaria *

Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil ''Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil'' is a small, Prussian locomotive depot at Hermeskeil, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany that dates from 1888. Until 1903, it was called a ''Maschinenstation'' (engine station). The locomotive depot is ...

, Hermeskeil, Rhineland-Palatinate * Bavarian Localbahn Society, Bayerisch Eisenstein, Bavaria * Bavarian Railway Museum, Nördlingen, Bavaria *

Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen is a railway museum situated south of the city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded by DGEG, the German Railway History Company in 1977 and is based in a locomotive depot ...

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

, North Rhine-Westphalia * Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz,

Ebermannstadt Ebermannstadt (; East Franconian: ''Ärmaschdood'') is a town in the district of Forchheim, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 10 km northeast of Forchheim and 25 km southeast of Bamberg. Districts *Breitenbach *Ebermannstadt *Gas ...

, 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 The Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn (EFZ) (Zollernbahn Railway Society) is a Germany, German railway society dedicated to the preservation of historic railway vehicles, especially steam locomotives, where possible in working order. The society arran ...

Rottweil Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years. Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...

, Baden-Württemberg * Franconian Museum Railway, Nuremberg, Bavaria *

Frankfurt City Junction Line The Frankfurt City Link Line (german: Städtische Verbindungsbahn, commonly just called the ''Verbindungsbahn'') in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, emerged in the 19th century as a link line between Frankfurt's western stations at the ''Gallustor ...

, Frankfurt, Hesse * Freilassing Locomotive World, Freilassing, Bavaria * German Museum of Technology (Berlin) * German Railway Society,

Bruchhausen-Vilsen Bruchhausen-Vilsen is a municipality in the Diepholz district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated southeast of Bremen. The nearby communities of Berxen, Bruchhöfen, Bruchmühlen, Dille, Gehlbergen, Heiligenberg, Homfeld, Nenndorf, Rietha ...

, Lower Saxony * German Steam Locomotive Museum,

Neuenmarkt Neuenmarkt is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, an ...

Wirsberg Wirsberg is a municipality in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and ...

, Bavaria * Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum, Hanover, Lower Saxony *

Historic Railway, Frankfurt The Historic Railway, Frankfurt (''Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt'') or HEF is a German museum railway in Frankfurt am Main. The society was founded in 1978 and its aim is the preservation of historic, valuable railway materiel in working order, ...

, Frankfurt, Hesse * Mellrichstadt-Fladungen railway,

Fladungen Fladungen is a town in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Rhön Mountains, 11 km northwest of Ostheim, 20 km west of Meiningen, and 33 km east of Fulda. It is the northernmost town in Bavari ...

, Bavaria *

Munich Steam Locomotive Company The Munich Steam Locomotive Company (''Dampflok-Gesellschaft München'' or DGM) is charitable society based in Munich, Germany, whose aim is to preserve the oil-fired steam locomotive, number 41 018, as an operational locomotive. Society The so ...

, Munich, Bavaria *

Neustadt/Weinstraße Railway Museum The Neustadt/Weinstrasse Railway Museum (''Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt/Weinstraße'') is one of the two railway museums run by the German Railway History Company, (''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte'') or DGEG. It is located in the sta ...

, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Rhineland-Palatinate * Nuremberg Transport Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria *

Railway Vehicle Preservation Society The Railway Vehicle Preservation Society (''Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung von Schienenfahrzeugen e.V.'' or GES) is one of the oldest societies in Germany that runs a museum railway. The headquarters of the GES is in Stuttgart. Formation The society ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, Baden-Württemberg * Rügen Railway & Technology Museum, Prora, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania *

Saxon Railway Museum The Saxon Railway Museum (''Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum'' or ''SEM'', today "Schauplatz Eisenbahn") is located in Chemnitz, in the state of Saxony, eastern Germany. It is situated on the site of the former locomotive depot (''Bahnbetriebswerk'' ...

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

, Saxony * Selfkantbahn, Gangelt, North Rhine-Westphalia *

Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum The Technik Museum Sinsheim is a technology museum in Sinsheim, Germany. Opened in 1981, it is run by a registered association called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e. V." which also runs the nearby Technik Museum Speyer. Statistics , the museum ...

, Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg * South German Railway Museum,

Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. From the late Mid ...

, Baden-Württemberg *

Stuttgart Straßenbahn Museum Zuffenhausen Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swa ...

, Baden-Württemberg * Technik Museum Speyer, Speyer, Rhineland Palatinate *

Traditionsbetriebswerk Staßfurt The Traditionsbetriebswerk Stassfurt (Stassfurt Heritage Locomotive Depot) is a German railway motive power depot at Stassfurt in the state of Saxony-Anhalt that was opened in 1856. Today the locomotive depot, that lies on the Schönebeck to Güst ...

, Stassfurt, Saxony-Anhalt *

Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde The Ulm Railway Society (Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde or UEF) is a German society for encouraging the preservation of historically valuable railway stock. It is based in the vicinity of Ulm, a city in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. ...

, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg

Greece

Railway Museum of Athens The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) in 1978. It was located at 4 Siokou Street in Athens, but the collection has since been moved to the former MPR Depot site in Lefka, Piraeus in 2019 ( ...

Railway Museum of Thessaloniki The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Eleftherio-Kordelio, a municipality of the city of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A (french: Gare Militaire) of ...

Hungary

Hungarian Railway Museum The Magyar Vasúttörténeti Park ("Hungarian Railway History Park") is a railway museum located in Budapest, Hungary at a railway station and workshop of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV), the former Budapest North Depot. The museum covers mor ...

Millennium Underground Museum A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky). Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (ini ...

* Transport Museum of Budapest

Ireland

Donegal Railway Centre The Donegal Railway Heritage Centre commemorates the operations of the County Donegal Railways Committee which operated two narrow-gauge railways in County Donegal from 1863 until 1959. The County Donegal Railway Restoration Society restored th ...

Steam Museum, Straffan The Steam Museum & Lodge Park Walled Garden is a steam museum and tourist destination in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland. Location The Straffan Steam Museum is housed in a church building which once stood by the Inchicore railway works in ...

Whitehead Railway Museum The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) is an Irish railway preservation group operating throughout Ireland, founded in 1964. Mainline steam train railtours are operated from Dublin and Belfast, but occasionally from other locatio ...

Italy

* Costituendo Musero Ferroviario di Primolano, Primolano, Vicenza *

Museo delle Industrie e del Lavoro del Saronnese The Museo delle Industrie e del Lavoro del Saronnese (literally Saronno Industries and Work Museum) in Saronno is a science and technology museum, displaying industrial heritage strictly related to the industries in the area of Saronno town, north ...

, Saronno, Varese *

Museo Europeo dei Trasporti Ogliari Museo may refer to: * Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film * Museo (Naples Metro), station on line 1 of the Naples Metro * Museo, Seville, neighborhood of Seville, Spain {{disambiguation ...

, Ranco, Varese *

Museo Ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio The Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum is a museum in Trieste (Italy), concerned with railway and tram transportation. It is housed in Trieste Campo Marzio railway station, the former Trieste Staatsbahnhof (earlier still known as the Sankt-Andra ...

, Trieste *

Museo Ferroviario Piemontese Museo may refer to: * Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film * Museo (Naples Metro), station on line 1 of the Naples Metro * Museo, Seville, neighborhood of Seville, Spain {{disambiguation ...

, Savigliano, Turin *

Museo Nazionale dei Trasporti Museo may refer to: * Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film * Museo (Naples Metro), station on line 1 of the Naples Metro * Museo, Seville, neighborhood of Seville, Spain {{disambiguation ...

La Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second largest city ...

* Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa, Naples * Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan

Latvia

Latvian Railway History Museum Latvian Railway History Museum ( lv, Latvijas dzelzceļa vēstures muzejs) is a railway museum with expositions in Riga and in Jelgava, dedicated to the history of railway and its development in Latvia . The museum is a structural unit of the co ...

Luxembourg

Train 1900 In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often kn ...

Netherlands

* Noord-Nederlands Trein & Tram Museum * het Spoorwegmuseum *

Stoom Stichting Nederland The Stoom Stichting Nederland (SSN) is a railway museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1976. Facilities The SSN owns a motive power depot which includes a locomotive shed, in which major repairs can be carried out. A turntable, platforms a ...

Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele The Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele (Goes-Borsele Steam Train) is a heritage railway operating from Goes through Kwadendamme to the village of Hoedekenskerke, in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands. Route The railway's headquarters are located at Go ...

* Museumstoomtram Hoorn-Medemblik *

Stoomtrein Valkenburgse Meer Stoomtrein Katwijk Leiden (formerly Stoomtrein Valkenburgse Meer, abbreviated SVM), is a narrow gauge heritage railway line around the Valkenburgse Meer in the south of Katwijk, Netherlands. Although the name translates as ''Steam Train Valkenbu ...

* Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij * Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij * Stichting Stadskanaal Rail * Museum Buurtspoorweg

Norway

* Norwegian Railway Museum, Hamar * Oslo Tramway Museum, Oslo * Trondheim Tramway Museum

Poland

Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew (Polish: ''Muzeum Kolei Wąskotorowej w Sochaczewie'') is a -gauge heritage railway based at Sochaczew in Poland, about west of Warsaw. The museum's headquarters are that of the former Sochaczew County N ...

* Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja *

Railway and Industry Museum in Jaworzyna Śląska Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

(Muzeum Przemysłu i Kolejnictwa w Jaworzynie Śląskiej), Lower Silesian Voivodeship *

Railway Museum in Chabówka village Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

, near Rabka, Nowy Targ County * Railway Museum in Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship *

Roundhouse Skierniewice The Railway roundhouse, Roundhouse in Skierniewice ( pl, Parowozownia Skierniewice) was built in 1845 and used until 1991. Currently the Polish Association of Railway Enthusiasts (PSMK) runs a museum exhibition here. Exhibits (examples) * Steam l ...

in Skierniewice * Warsaw Railway Museum (Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie) * Wolsztyn Steam Locomotive Roundhouse, the only depot in Europe with everyday scheduled passenger trains driven by steam locomotives

Portugal

* National Railway Museum Foundation, Entroncamento

Museum Branches of FMNF

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

Disused or Closed Museums

* Braga * Estremoz

Museological Warehouses

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

Romania

* Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum *

Sibiu Steam Locomotives Museum The Steam Locomotives Museum ( ro, Muzeul locomotivelor cu abur) is a railway museum in Sibiu, Romania. It houses a collection of steam locomotives and engines. Inaugurated in 1994, the museum comprises 23 standard gauge locomotives, 10 narrow ga ...

Russia

Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk The Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk (Russian language, Russian: Новосибирский музей железнодорожной техники, ''Nowosibirski musei schelesnodoroschnoi techniki'') is a railway museum in Novosibirs ...

at Seyatel station *

Museum of the Moscow Railway (Paveletskaya station) The Museum of the Moscow Railway is situated next to Paveletsky Rail Terminal in Moscow. The museum reopened to private visitors in 2011 and it reopened to the general public in January 2012. It's the object of cultural heritage of Russia. Ove ...

, Moscow * Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Moscow * Russian Railway Museum, Saint Petersburg * Railway museum at Nizhny Novgorod * Railway museum at Pereslavl-Zalessky (narrow gauge) * Railway museum at

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...

* Railway museum at Yekaterinburg

Serbia

* Narrow Gauge Museum in Pozega * Railway Museum in

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

Slovenia

Slovenian Railway Museum The Slovenian Railway Museum, or Railway Museum of Slovenian railways ( sl, Železniški muzej Slovenskih železnic), in Ljubljana, Slovenia, located on Parmova ulica 35, is the national museum for Slovenia's railway history. The museum is tas ...

Spain

* Basque Railway Museum *

Gijón Railway Museum The Asturias Railway Museum or Gijón Railway museum (Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturias), in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, is an institution dedicated to restore, preserve and display to the public the railway history of Asturias. It was inaugurated ...

(Museo del Ferrocarill de Asturias) *

Railway Centre and Museum Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

Móra la Nova Móra la Nova (Mora la Nueva in Spanish) is a municipality in the ''comarca'', or district, of the Ribera d'Ebre in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the left bank of the Ebre river, facing the district capital Móra d'Ebre. It is served by a ...

(Centre d'Interpretació del Ferrocarril de Móra la Nova) * Railway Museum in Ponferrada (Museo del Ferrocarril) * Railway Museum in Madrid (Museo del Ferrocarril) * Railway Museum in Monforte de Lemos (Museo del Ferrocarril de Galicia) *

Railway Museum in Vilanova The Railway Museum of Catalonia ( ca, Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya; es, Museo del Ferrocarril de Cataluña) is a museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalonia, Spain). The museum has a large collection of historic railway locomotives and other ...

(Museu del Ferrocarril de Vilanova)(Vilanova Railway Museum)

Sweden

* Åmål-Årjäng Railway Society,

Åmål Åmål () is a locality and the seat of Åmål Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 9,065 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated on the western shore of Vänern. In 2005 Åmål received second prize in the international competition ...

* Anten-Gräfsnäs Narrow-Gauge Steam Railway, Lake Anten * Dalara and Western Farmlands Railway,

* Eastern Götland Railway Museum, Linköping * Eastern Southernlands Railway, Mariefred * Gothenburg Nostalgia Tram,

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

* Gotland Railway Association, Dalhem * Grängesberg Regional Railway Museum, Grängesberg * Hagfors Railway Museum, Hagfors * Järdaås Pine Forest Railway, Jädraås * Kristiantown Regional Museum, Kristianstad * Landeryd's Railway Museum,

Landeryd Landeryd is a locality situated in Hylte Municipality, Halland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of Sweden ...

* Nässjö Railway Museum (in Swedish), Nässjö * Nora Mining District Historical Railway, Nora * Northbottom's Railway Museum,

Luleå Luleå ( , , locally ; smj, Luleju; fi, Luulaja) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban core (2018) and is the seat of Lu ...

* Nynäshamn's Railway Museum, Nynäshamn * Railway Museum of Ängelholm, Ängelholm * Skara-Lundsbrunn Railways, Skara * Stockholm Streetcar Museum,

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

* Swedish National Railway Museum,

Gävle Gävle () is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 77,586 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the 13th most populated city in Sweden. It is the oldest city in the historical Norrland (Swede ...

Upsala-Lenna Jernväg Upsala-Lenna Järnväg (ULJ) (literally: ''Upsala-Lenna Railway'', also nicknamed ''Lennakatten'') is a Narrow gauge railway, narrow-gauge heritage railway in Uppsala County, Sweden. It is long and is a part of the once extensive Roslagen networ ...

, Uppsala

Switzerland

* Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway

Ukraine

Kiev Railway Museum Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

* Museum of History and Development of Donetsk Railway in Donetsk *

Museum of History and Technology of Southern Railway A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

in Kharkiv

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

Costa Rica

Museo Del Ferrocarril Museo may refer to: * Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film * Museo (Naples Metro), station on line 1 of the Naples Metro * Museo, Seville, neighborhood of Seville, Spain {{disambiguation ...

Guatemala

* Guatemala City Railway Museum * Quetzaltenango

Honduras

* El Progreso railway museum, Yoro

Mexico

Ferrocarril Interoceánico The Interoceanic Railway of Mexico (''Ferrocarril Interoceánico de México'') was one of the primary pre-nationalization railways of Mexico. Incorporated in Great Britain in 1888 to complete an unfinished project and compete with the Mexican Rail ...

* Old Railway Station and Railway Museum

United States

Oceania

Australia

* Archer Park Rail Museum * Canberra Railway Museum * Dorrigo Steam Railway & Museum * Lachlan Valley Railway * National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide,

Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the ...

* Newport Railway Museum, Champion Road,

North Williamstown Williamstown North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Williamstown North recorded a population of 1,622 at the . ...

* NSW Rail Museum, Thirlmere *

Rail Motor Society The Rail Motor Society, based at Paterson, New South Wales, is a community owned collection of preserved self-propelled railway vehicles and equipment from the former New South Wales Government Railways. The items in its collection date from 192 ...

Paterson Paterson may refer to: People * Paterson (surname) * Paterson (given name) Places Australia *Paterson, New South Wales *Paterson River, New South Wales * Division of Paterson, an electoral district in New South Wales *Paterson, Queensland, a lo ...

* Railway Museum,

Bassendean, Western Australia __NOTOC__ Bassendean (once referred to as West Guildford) is a north-eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the Town of Bassendean. It is also the name of the sand dune system on the Swan Coastal Plain known ...

Richmond Vale Railway Museum The Richmond Vale Railway Museum operates a railway and museum located at the heritage-listed Richmond Main Colliery south of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales. The museum is a volunteer non-profit organization, formed in 1979 with the aim of preservi ...

* Rosewood Railway Museum, Rosewood * Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre * The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich, Queensland *

Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum The ''Valley Heights Rail Museum'' is a railway museum located in Valley Heights, New South Wales, Australia. The facility is located north-west of Valley Heights railway station. The museum is operated by two partner organisations: * The ...

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

* Ferroclub Argentino: Centros de Preservacion Remedios de Escalada, Lynch y Tolosa * Museo Ferroviario de la ciudad de Campana (Buenos Aires)

Brazil

* Araraquara Railway Museum * Jaguariuna Railway Museum *Juiz de Fora Railway Museum (pt) * Museu of Train of Rio de Janeiro * Paranapiacaba Technologic Railway Museum * Rio Claro Railway Museum (future)

Peru

National Railway Museum (Peru) The National Railway Museum of Peru is located in Tacna, Peru. The museum was built at the site of the old Tacna-Arica railway station, which connected the two cities. The museum features many preserved elements used during the second half of the ...

References

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