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The China Railway Museum () is a Chinese museum preserving locomotives that have operated on the railways of the
The Beijing Railway Museum () was opened in 2008 in a building which includes the clock-tower of the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station of the Jingfeng Railway (), just southeast of the
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File:China Railway Museum 30 Sep 2010.jpg, Inside the museum File:Couches in China Railway Museum.jpg, A Ten'ine2 type observation carriage on display in the China Railway Museum.
Official website
Buildings and structures in Chaoyang District, Beijing Museums in Beijing Railway museums in China 2002 establishments in China {{PRChina-museum-stub
People's Republic of China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. The museum offers a total exhibition space of 16500m² and 8 exhibition tracks.
The museum is located in Chaoyang District of Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
City, some 15 km northeast of downtown Beijing, inside the circular test track that is part of the China National Railway Test Centre. It also has a branch in downtown Beijing, in the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station near Tian'anmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (; 天安门广场; Pinyin: ''Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng''; Wade–Giles: ''Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3'') is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananmen ...
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Downtown branch
The Beijing Railway Museum () was opened in 2008 in a building which includes the clock-tower of the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station of the Jingfeng Railway (), just southeast of the Tian'anmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (; 天安门广场; Pinyin: ''Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng''; Wade–Giles: ''Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3'') is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananmen ...
. The rest of the building is entirely new-build, dating from the 1979 construction of Beijing Subway
The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Municipality that consists of 25 lines including 20 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and 2 light rail lines, and 463 stations. The rail network extends acro ...
Line 4, which required the rest of the old station to be demolished. The historic facade was then reconstructed, in mirror-image, on the opposite (right hand) side of the clock tower. In October 2010, Beijing Railway Museum was renamed to the Zhengyangmen Branch () of the China Railway Museum. This part of the museum contains only one full size historic locomotive - an 0-6-0 tank engine from the 19th century. The rest of the displays comprise models, maps (some in 3D relief), photographs, documents and displays about the development of railways in China, including architectural models of six new stations on the CRH China Railway High-speed system. Also on display is a CRH3 cab simulator.
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File:China Railway Museum 30 Sep 2010.jpg, Inside the museum File:Couches in China Railway Museum.jpg, A Ten'ine2 type observation carriage on display in the China Railway Museum.
See also
* List of museums in China * Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of ChinaExternal links
Official website
Buildings and structures in Chaoyang District, Beijing Museums in Beijing Railway museums in China 2002 establishments in China {{PRChina-museum-stub