Çamlık Railway Museum
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| place | Çamlık, Selçuk , Izmir Province , Turkey 
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| opening | 1997 |
The Çamlık Railway Museum ( Turkish Çamlık Tren Müzesi or Çamlık Buharlı Lokomotif Müzesi ) is a railway museum in Çamlık , which belongs to Selçuk in the Izmir Province of Turkey . It is the largest railway museum in Turkey.
history
The museum is located next to the former Çamlık train station in a former depot on an original part of the main line of the Ottoman Railway Company , the oldest railway company in Turkey. It is near Çamlık village, very close to the famous historical sites of Ephesus .
When the İzmir – Eğirdir railway between Izmir and Aydın was re-routed, this section of the route with the original Çamlık station was abandoned. Construction of the museum began in 1991 and was completed in 1997. The original rails from 1866 were used.
The terrain, the building and the collection are the property of the Turkish State Railways , the national railway company of Turkey (TCDD). The museum is operated under the direction of Atilla Mısırlıoğlu, who has a lease for 99 years. Atilla Mısırlıoğlu is the son of the first switchman at Çamlık station.
vehicles
There are 33 steam locomotives in the museum, half of which are set up around the 18-meter turntable . The years of construction of these locomotives are between 1891 and 1951. The oldest comes from the British company Robert Stephenson and Company .
Many of the locomotives on display were supplied by German manufacturers. Eight of them were built by Henschel & Sohn , two by Krauss-Maffei , one by Borsig , two by the Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft formerly L. Schwartzkopff , one by Orenstein & Koppel , three by Krupp and one by the Humboldt mechanical engineering company .
Two locomotives from Nydqvist och Holm (NOHAB) in Sweden , one from Českomoravská-Kolben-Daněk in Czechoslovakia , two from Robert Stephenson and Company, one from the North British Locomotive Company and one from Beyer-Peacock in the United States come from non-German suppliers Kingdom. Also represented are a machine from Lima Locomotive Works , one from the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), one from Vulcan Iron Works from the United States as well as one locomotive each from Schneider-Creusot and Batignolles and two from Corpet-Louvet from France .
Visitors can enter the driver's cab. The locomotives are equipped with boards that contain the most important information about technical details.
The museum also shows nine passenger cars, two of which have a wooden body. The saloon car that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk used can be viewed inside. There are further seven freight cars on the premises on which further support systems for stations and depots like a water tower , hand carts, cranes and a snow blower are exhibited.
The steam locomotive number 45.501, which was involved with the Simplon Orient Express in the Yarımburgaz railway accident in 1957, is on display in the museum. With 95 fatalities, this accident was one of the worst train accidents in Turkey.
Web links
- List of museum locomotives in Turkey. In: trainsofturkey.com. Accessed December 22, 2015 .
- Camlik Railway Museum. In: internationalsteam.co.uk. Accessed December 22, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Çamlik Railway Museum in Turkey is faced with closure. International Steam, accessed December 22, 2015 (Turkish).
- ↑ a b c d Çamlık Outdoor Railway Museum. Trains of Turkey, accessed December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ General map of the museum. As of 2011. In: trainsofturkey.com. Accessed December 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Otuzbeşinci Kilometrede Tren Kazası. (Yarımburgaz railway accident). In: entvedemiryolu.com. October 21, 2010, accessed December 22, 2015 (Turkish).
