Moscow Railway Museum (Paveletsky Railway Station)

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Moscow Railway Museum
A glossy brown painted steam locomotive with a carriage
Lenin's funeral train
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The Museum of the Moscow Railway ( Russian Музей Московской железной дороги ) is located in a park right next to the Paveletsky Railway Station in Moscow . After a renovation, the museum has been open to the public again since January 2012.

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The museum was formerly called the Lenin's Funeral Train Museum . The main exhibit is still Vladimir Lenin's funeral train, including the 4-6-0 steam locomotive U-127 ( Russian Y-127 ) and Lenin's hearse truck No. 1691.

The Russian class U locomotive was a steam locomotive with a four-cylinder compound engine developed by Alfred de Glehn and built in 1906. Between 1906 and 1916 a total of 62 U-class locomotives were built in the Putilow factory, later known as the Kirov factory . At the beginning of 1940 there were still 47 class U locomotives. The last locomotives were taken out of service in 1952.

The U-127 locomotive was used at Lenin's funeral to bring his body back to Moscow for his burial, which is why it was subsequently exhibited and, like Lenin himself, was kept in perfect condition. It has not been used since 1948.

The U-127 locomotive was built in 1910 with the series number 1960 and was intended for the Tashkent Railway. U-127 was the first and until the 1980s the only restored Russian locomotive in the Soviet Union. It is the only surviving Russian U-class locomotive. The other restored locomotive is the H2 293 in the Finnish Railway Station in Saint Petersburg. The H2 293 was built by the Richmond Locomotive Works in the USA for the Finnish State Railways.

The exhibition has since been expanded and shows items in the collection of the Moscow Railway and other Russian railways from the very beginning until today. Uniforms, models, documents, photos and other collection items are shown.

  • Museum building, 2011

  • Track construction workers

  • Railway station in the 19th century

  • Showcase with exhibits

  • Model of Cherepanov locomotive

See also

literature

  • Rakov, V.А. (1995), Lokomotivy otechestvennykh zheleznykh dorog 1845–1955 , (Russian for locomotives of the domestic railways 1845–1955 ), 2nd edition, Moscow, ISBN 5-277-00821-7 .
  • AJ Heywood and IDC Button: Soviet Locomotive Types: the Union Legacy .
  • Keith Chester: Russian and Soviet Steam Locomotives Volume 1 .
  • JN Westwood: Soviet Locomotive Technology During Industrialization, 1928–1952 .
  • AD de Pater: The railway locomotives of Russia .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b V. А. Rakov: Locomotives of Domestic Railways 1845–1955 , 2nd, revised and enlarged. Edition, Transport, 1995, ISBN 5-277-00821-7 .
  2. ^ A b A. J. Heywood and IDC Button: Soviet Locomotive Types: the Union Legacy .

Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 42 "  N , 37 ° 38 ′ 31.9"  E