WHERE IS THE RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST

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Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania
Date Uploaded:2018-11-12
Description: Bucharest Railways Museum is housed by the North Railways Station in the Romanian capital

WHAT TO SEE AT RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST

There are many things to see at the Railways Museum in Bucharest, yet it is not so amazing as such museums are in different European capitals. I visited it in the summer of 2018 and I was not impressed at all, but for the diorama, the biggest in Romania, dedicated to the railways infrastructure. Yet, you should know that a ticket for one adult is 4 RON and if you want to take pictures is 13 RON, while for making videos is 33 RON. 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 brought here from railway stations all around Romania.

OLD TRAIN BUCHAREST RAILWAYS MUSEUM

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Description: At Railways Museum in Bucharest 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, which was one of the main targets in the Romanian capital for the allies planes, before Romania got out of the war and started fighting against the Nazis in 1944. It was open again in 1953 in the new location for, in the beginning, the exhibition was in Giulesti Area, near the new headquarters. The Railways Museum in Bucharest was closed again in 1968 to be open again one year later when Romania celebrated 100 years from the opening of its first railway Bucharest – Giurgiu. In 1876 the 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: nowadays it takes an hour to get from Bucharest to Giurgiu, too, so the infrastructure is almost the same in 2018.

EXHIBIT AT RAILWAYS MUSEUM

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Description: This is the first diesel engine built in Romania at Malaxa Factory in 1936 and it 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, ticket collectors’ uniforms, also the rebuilt engine that made the first trip from Bucharest to Giurgiu in 1869, a layout of the Saligny bridge and so on. 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, which was called King Carol the 1st and is now called Saligny. He 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. It was a prove that he had done a great job. His portrait and layout of that bridge are to be seen at Railways Museum Bucharest.

NOWADAYS ENGINE RAILWAYS BUCHAREST

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Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania
Date Uploaded:2018-11-12
Description: New engines for the Romanian railways infrastructure were built in the 80s and are now part of the Romanian Railways Infrastructure park which is a poor one comparing with other Eastern European countries

DIORAMA AT RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST

At the Bucharest Railways Museum you can see one of the most spectacular diorama about the railways infrastructure. It was built respecting the scale of the landscape, different kind of landscapes, and of the trains crossing the country. This diorama is right in the middle of the main room of the museum and there are tunnels, a central station and trains crossing the entire area which 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 in a diorama extremely catchy for children

BIGGEST DIORAMA BUCHAREST RAILWAYS

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Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania
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Description: The biggest diorama in Romania about railways is at Bucharest Railways Museum and is 14 meters long and 4 meters wide while all the trains and buildings you can see are built according to their 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, yet there are not too people to come and see the history of the Romanian railways, so you can come when you have time during your trip to Bucharest. It took us about 30 minutes to visit the entire building, well, let’s say 40 minutes for I took the photos for you. Many other things, if you are interested in technology, can be seen at the Technology Museum in Bucharest.

DIORAMA BUCHAREST RAILWAYS MUSEUM

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Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania
Date Uploaded:2018-11-12
Description: In Bucharest there is the biggest diorama of the Romanian railways infrastructure in the country and the entire environment the trains cross the country

A GREAT EXHIBIT AT RAILWAYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST

One of the most interesting things I’ve seen here, at the Railways Bucharest Museum 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 and 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. The Pacific locomotives have a great story in Romania: 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.

TOY ENGINE RAILWAYS MUSEUM

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Description: If you want to make photos inside the Railways Museum in Bucharest you will have to pay 13 RON and you if you want to record on video it is 33 RON

OLD ENGINE BUCHAREST RAILWAYS MUSEUM

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Photographed In: Bucharest, Romania
Date Uploaded:2018-11-12
Description: Outside the Railways Museum in Bucharest just inside the North Railway Station you can see an old engine exhibited for tourists and those passionate about old locomotives and trains