Athens Railway Museum
The Athens Railway Museum is a technology museum in Sepolia in northern 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 a former small railway depot that was converted for museum purposes. At that time there were no other railway museums in Greece, so vehicles from the Athens tram and the Athens metro (an electric locomotive) were also handed over there. Today there are other regional railway museums, the Athens Metro also has its own and offers trips on historic trains.
Since the museum suffers from an acute lack of space, the exhibits in the building are mostly limited to the oldest, which were already considered museum in the 1970s, such as various locomotives from the 19th century such as the Tiryns from Krauss & Co. from 1884, a locomotive and a carriage of the Kalavrita rack railway , a smoking car of the Sultan Abdülaziz and a saloon car from 1888 of the royal family of Greece .
Web links
- Presentation on the OSE website
- Athens Railway Museum (English with many photos)
Coordinates: 38 ° 0 ′ 35 ″ N , 23 ° 43 ′ 14 ″ E