České Dráhy Museum
The České dráhy Museum () is a railway museum in Lužná (Rakovník District), Lužná in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. it is operated by the České dráhy company. It is located close to the local railway station. History The premises of the museum are a historic heating plant. They were the last in Czechoslovakia with steam traffic, which ended here in the 1970s. The place began to be used for exhibitions. The operation of the depot ended in 1996 and the railway museum was established in 1999. It is the largest railway museum in the Czech Republic with the largest collection of steam locomotives. Exhibits Steam locomotives Diesel locomotives Electric locomotives Railcars References External links

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Railway Museum
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds. Africa Egypt * Egyptian Railway Museum (Cairo) Kenya * Nairobi Railway Museum in Nairobi Nigeria * NRC/Legacy Railway Museum in Lagos Senegal * Musée Régional de Thiès in Thiès (Showroom to the Dakar–Niger Railway line) Sierra Leone * Sierra Leone National Railway Museum in Freetown South Africa * Outeniqua Transport Museum in George Sudan * Sudan Railways Museum in Atbarah Uganda * Uganda Railway Museum in Jinja Zambia * Railway Museum in Livingstone Zimbabwe * Bulawayo Railway Museum in Bulawayo Asia Armenia * Armenian Railways Museum, Yerevan Azerbaijan * Azerbaijan Railway Museum, Baku China * Chan T'ien-yu Memorial Hall, Badaling, Beijing * China Railway Museum, Beijing ...
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KkStB 270
The kkStB 270 was a class of 2-8-0 locomotives with the Imperial Austrian State Railways (''k.k. österreichische Staatsbahnen''), kkStB. Class 270 in Austria Twenty years passed between the appearance of the class 170 and its superheated steam variant, as the military preferred the simply constructed saturated steam locomotives. It was not until 1915 that Johann Rihosek, Karl Gölsdorf's assistant, worked out the design of the superheated steam two-cylinder locomotive. The Bohemian-Moravian Machine Factory ('' Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik'', BMMF) took over the construction work. As was customary in Austria, the superheater surface area was rather small, as it was feared, rightly, that the domestic lubricating oil would not be able to withstand higher temperatures. The pulling power of the 270s was considerably higher than that of the 170s: it could pull at . The two steam domes with connecting pipes from the 170s were replaced by a simple steam dome and two sand do ...
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Lužná U Rakovníka, Nádraží, Lokomotiva Brejlovec
Luzna may refer to places: Czech Republic *Lužná (Rakovník District), a municipality and village in the Central Bohemian Region *Lužná (Vsetín District), a municipality and village in the Zlín Region *Lužná, a village and part of Bor (Tachov District) in the Plzeň Region *Lužná, a village and part of Kopřivná in the Olomouc Region *Lužná, a village and part of Větřní in the South Bohemian Region Latvia *Lūžņa, a village Poland *Gmina Łużna, a gmina in Lesser Poland Voivodeship **Łużna Łużna is a village in Gorlice County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łużna. It lies approximately north-west of Gorlice and south-east of the regional capital ...