Railway Museum of Catalonia

"Mataró" steam locomotive on the turntable

Turntable and roundhouse in the museum

The Railway Museum of Catalonia ( Catalan Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya ) near the Vilanova i la Geltrú train station ( Catalonia , Spain ) houses a large collection of historic locomotives and wagons in an old roundhouse and its surroundings. The museum was opened in 1990 in a former depot that employed up to 900 people.

exhibition

Reading room of the museum library

The collection includes more than 60 vehicles. These include 28 remarkable steam locomotives built between the mid-19th and 20th centuries and a replica of the first steam locomotive that was used on the Iberian Peninsula in 1848. This replica is heated up and driven on the site on the first Sunday of the month. There are also diesel and electric locomotives, wagons, bogies, a signal bridge and an electromechanical signal box with a display board from Barcelona-França train station .

The main building presents a collection of railway uniforms, small parts and machines. A film about the railways in Catalonia is shown daily in an auditorium . In the reception is the former ticket office from the village of La Granada, which is just 25 km north of Vilanova. The museum library comprises more than 6100 volumes, many of which are originals from the 1950s. A total of 5,000 objects are cataloged, as well as 400 video tapes and 10,000 photographs.

history

The Association of Model Railroaders and Railway Friends of Europe, MOROP , organized its 19th congress in 1972 at the invitation of the Sociació d'Amics del Ferrocarril de Barcelona . For the centenary of the Barcelona-Vilanova railway line, the idea of setting up a railway museum there arose. The project was initiated by the Spanish national railway company RENFE and the autonomous government agency Generalitat de Catalunya and later also supported by the city council of Vilanova. The museum opened on August 5, 1990. In 1993, RENFE transferred the management to a foundation in Madrid.

Locomotives

No.	year	object	Surname	Manufacturer	description
ND	1948	Steam locomotive 1-1-1	Mataró	La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima	Replica of the first locomotive on the Iberian Peninsula, used on the Barcelona – Mataró line
MZA 168	1854	Steam locomotive 120-2112	Martorell	Sharp & Stewart Manchester	The oldest surviving locomotive in Spain, exhibited in the Exposició Internacional de Barcelona de 1929
MZA 246	1857	Steam locomotive 030-2013	Mamut	Ritson Wilson and Cail Cockeril	Second oldest locomotive in Spain
Andaluces 4	1871	Steam locomotive 020-04	Andaluces	Cockerill	Small steam locomotive for use in factories and urban areas
MZA 571	1879	Steam locomotive 040-2019	Vilanova	Sharp & Steward ( UK )	In Vilanova i la Geltrú since 1949
North 1653	1881	Steam locomotive 030-2110	Perruca	André Koechlin & Cie	From the northeast of Spain
Oeste 9	1881	Steam locomotive 220-2005		Hartmann	Passenger locomotive
East 77	1884	Steam locomotive 120-2131		Maschinenfabrik Esslingen AG	Passenger locomotive
Alcantarilla- Lorca, 4	1884	Steam locomotive 030-2369	Bicicleta	Great Britain	Passenger locomotive
Alcañiz - La Puebla de Híjar, 4	1885	Steam locomotive 020-210	Teresita / Clot	Cockerill	Shunter
Mollet - Caldes, 6	1887	Steam locomotive 030-0233	Caldes	La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima	Passenger locomotive, later used as a shunting locomotive
Andaluces, 6		Steam locomotive 220-2023	Bobadilla	Beyer, Peacock and Company	Passenger locomotive
MZA 651	1901	Steam locomotive 230-4001	Compound	Henschel and Maffei (Germany)	Express locomotive
Ferrocarril Central de Aragón, 1	1902	Steam locomotive 030-2471	FCA 1	Société Anonyme St. Leonard	Passenger locomotive
Ferrocarril Central de Aragón, 53	1906	Steam locomotive 060-4013	Mallet compound	Switzerland	heavy freight locomotive
North 3101	1909	Steam locomotive 230-2085		Hanomag (Germany)	Passenger locomotive
MZA 1155	1913	Steam locomotive 240-2135	Mastodonts	Germany	Multipurpose locomotive
Ferrocarril Central de Aragón, 74	1927	Steam locomotive 240-2074	Mastodonts	Tubize (Belgium)	Multipurpose locomotive with a top speed of 115 km / h
FCA 101		Steam locomotive 462F-0401	Beyer-Garratt	Euskalduna , Bilbao	Garratt articulated locomotive, now in Lleída / Lérida
MZA 1808	1939	Steam locomotive 241F-2108	Linda Tapada	La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima (Barcelona)	Multipurpose locomotive
5001	1942	Steam locomotive 151F-3101	Santa Fe	La Maquinista Terrestre y Marítima	heavy freight locomotive
Renfe		RENFE 240F-2591 steam locomotive		Euskalduna (Bilbao)
Renfe	1953	Steam locomotive 141F-2101	mikado	North British Locomotive Company	The last steam locomotive series to be used in Spain
Norte i Renfe 7001	1928	Electric locomotive 270-001	Chata		Electric freight locomotive
Norte i Renfe 7206	1928	Electric locomotive 272-006	Cocodrilo		Electric locomotive
Estado i Renfe 1004	1929	Electric locomotive 280-004		CAF Sécheron ( Gipuzkoa )	Four-axle bogie locomotive for the arcane Pyrenees routes
Renfe 7807	1954	Electric locomotive 278-007	Panchorga	United States	Originally for passenger trains, later for freight transport
Renfe 7652		Electric locomotive 276-052		Alsthom	Heavy express train locomotive
Norte i Renfe 9165	1935	Diesel multiple unit 590-165		EUA	For short trips
Ou (Catalan for egg)	1940	Draisine			With twelve seats
3T	1950	Talgo diesel locomotive 350-003	Talgo II	American Car and Foundry (ACF)	One-way diesel locomotive, originally for Talgo II
1801	1958	Diesel locomotive 318-001	Marilyn	American Locomotive Company (ALCO)	US diesel locomotive adapted for European conditions
Talgo	1983	Talgo diesel locomotive 354-001	Virgen de Covadonga	Krauss-Maffei (Germany)	Diesel locomotive for Talgo Pendular
2005 T	1964	Driver's cab of the 352 005	Virgen del Carmen		One-way diesel locomotive for Talgo III