BUCHAREST OLD TRAINS MUSEUM
Bucharest Railways Museum where you can see pieces of old trains, maps, a diorama is right at North Train Station Bucharest. Therefore, to visit it, you need to take a tram like 85 or 69 from the University Square, for instance, or use the subway. It is not a large museum. We have visited it recently since it is not far from the city center. It took us about 1 hour to see the exhibition. We also made this short video with the diorama at Bucharest Railways Museum.
THE FIRST MUSEUM
The Railways Museum in Bucharest was founded in June 1939. Although the idea of a museum for the railways infrastructure dated back to 1924. The museum is inside the building of the North Railways Station Bucharest, on Grivitei Street No. 139B. You can see the museum in 3D technology on the museum website HERE. In the first museum visitors could see a locomotive and three carriages built in 1869. Secondly, authorities shew the first Orleans-type locomotive for accelerated trains from 1886. And most important, visitors could see the 1879 King Carol I’s saloon carriage. It had rich interior and was lit with candlesticks. The bombs in World War Two destroyed most of the exhibits in 1944.
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Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania
Date Uploaded:2018-11-12
Description: Bucharest Railways Museum is inside the North Railways Station in the Romanian capital
WHAT TO SEE AND HAVE CASH FOR TICKETS
There are many things to see at the Railways Museum in Bucharest</strong>. I visited it in the summer of 2018 and, also, recently and found the diorama, the biggest in Romania, dedicated to the railways infrastructure. You should know that a ticket for one adult in 2026 is 6 RON and if you want to take pictures is 13 RON, while for making videos is 33 RON. PAY ATTENTION! Have cash with you because you cannot pay by card.
The Railways Museum Bucharest is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM. You can see inside different copies of old engines, wagons and clocks. They brought them here from railway stations all around Romania.
OLD TRAIN BUCHAREST RAILWAYS MUSEUM
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Description: You can see photos of the old engines and trains that crossed not only Romania but also Europe in the past century
HISTORY OF RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
This museum was opened in 1939 but it was almost destroyed in the World War Two together with the NORTH RAILWAY STATION BUCHAREST. The station was one of the main targets in the Romanian capital for the allies planes. It was before Romania got out of the war and started fighting against the Nazis in 1944. The museum opened again in 1953 in the new location. The Railways Museum in Bucharest closed again in 1968. Authorities opened it one year later when Romania celebrated 100 years from the opening of its first railway Bucharest – Giurgiu.
FUNNY STORY ABOUT THE ROMANIAN RAILWAYS
In 1876 King Carol the 1st, the first monarch of modern Romania noted that it took about an hour to get from the capital to Giurgiu by train, on the new open route. There is an irony here from the historical point of view. Because, nowadays it takes an hour to get from Bucharest to Giurgiu, too, so the infrastructure looks almost the same in 2018 as in 1876.
EXHIBIT AT RAILWAYS MUSEUM
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Description: This is the first diesel engine built in Romania at Malaxa Factory in 1936
The engine you see above was a Malaxa Ganz engine with 6 cylinders and 55 km per hour speed. The Railways Museum Bucharest has only 3 rooms where you can also see locomotives from different times of the Romanian history. There are ticket collectors’ uniforms. You can see also the rebuilt engine that made the first trip from Bucharest to Giurgiu in 1869. And a layout of the Saligny bridge.
SALIGNY AND KING CAROL THE FIRST
Why it is important? It was in 1895, when the nowadays bridge at Cernavoda over the Danube was built. The constructor, Anghel Saligny invited the king and the government to officially open the bridge. They called it King Carol the 1st bridge. To prove the good work Saligny stood with his team under the bridge in a boat when the first two trains crossed the Danube on the bridge. If it fell, they were dead. His portrait and layout of that bridge are at Railways Museum Bucharest.
NOWADAYS ENGINE RAILWAYS BUCHAREST
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Description: New engines for the Romanian railways infrastructure appeared in the 80s and some are still in service
DIORAMA AT RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
At the Bucharest Railways Museum you can see one of the most spectacular diorama about the railways infrastructure. It respects the scale of the landscape and of the trains crossing the country. This diorama is right in the middle of the main room of the museum. There are tunnels, a central station and trains crossing the entire area. The diorama is about 14 meters long and 4 meters wide.
ROMANIAN RAILWAYS MUSEUM
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Description: A piece of the Romanian railways infrastructure built from 1866 to nowadays and extremely catchy for children
BIGGEST DIORAMA BUCHAREST RAILWAYS
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Description: The biggest diorama in Romania about railways respects the trains and buildings original size
WHEN TO VISIT THE RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
The Railways Museum in Bucharest is open every day, from Wednesday to Sunday, from 10 AM to 4 PM. You are advised to visit it during week days. It took us about 60 minutes to visit the entire building. Exhibits are interesting and if you take a look to read their stories it might make the visit longer. Yet, it worths visiting this museum.
Many other things, if you are interested in technology, you can see at the Technology Museum in Bucharest.
DIORAMA
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Description: Children are over-enthousiasts about the diaroma and adults too
OLD LOCOMOTIVE
One of the most interesting things I’ve seen here is an old locomotive. This engine, you will see below, is a Pacific engine. You will see it inside the museum and outside, when you will find yourself right in the North Railway Station. These locomotive were built, for the first time, in 1902 in the United States. They first arrived in Romania between 1914 and 1916 through a German company, Maffei. After the war, in 1953, the Romanian authorities would ask for help from the same company to buy another 50 such engines.
AN INTERESTING STORY
The Pacific locomotives have a great story in Romania. For instance, the last one, the 2213 one, last served the Romanian Railways Company in 1975. This type of engines had been used in Romania for 60 years. Each one, developing a 123 km per hour speed, covered from 7 to 10 millions kilometers, which is about 200 times going around Planet Earth. It can be seen at the Railways Museum Bucharest.
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Description: If you want to make photos you will have to pay 13 RON and you if you want to record on video it is 33 RON
OLD ENGINE
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Description: Outside the Railways Museum in Bucharest just inside the North Railway Station you can see an old engine exhibited for tourists
