Railway Museum of Catalonia
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
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 | image |
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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 |
Illustrations
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A museum showing off 160 years of railway history . Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya. December 29, 2013. Archived from the original on June 5, 2014. Retrieved on December 29, 2013.
- ^ Associació d'Amics del Ferrocarril de Barcelona
- ↑ Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid
- ^ Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles
Coordinates: 41 ° 13 '15.6 " N , 1 ° 43' 52.4" E