Railway Museum of Athens

Museum front building
Couillet 0-6-0T locomotive A-5.
Couillet 2-6-0T locomotive Γ-211.

The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) in 1978. It is currently located at 4 Siokou Street, next to the mainline from Athens to Inoi. The museum has a collection of items related to the history of rail transport in Greece, many of them exhibited in its five rooms. The museum is open daily from 09:00 to 13:00 except Mondays, and is also open on Wednesday evenings from 17:00 to 20:00. Admission is free. Photography in the museum is permitted from 2015 onwards (was prohibited in the past).

Notable exhibits

The museum has very limited space. The rolling stock collection is exhibited in Hall B and consists mainly of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 in) metre gauge vehicles. Exhibited rolling stock includes the following:[1][2][3]

Hall B

Sidewalk

Three industrial locomotives from Eretria Chrome Mines:

Backyard

Overhead line maintenance vehicle of Piraeus Harbour tram

In poor condition, the following 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) EIS/ISAP rolling stock is in oper air storage awaiting renovation:

See also

References

  1. Simms, W.F. (1997). The railways of Greece. Wilfried F. Sims. pp. 86–86. ISBN 0-9528881-1-4.
  2. Organ, J. (2006). Greece Narrow Gauge. Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-72-1.
  3. Handrinos G. and Papadimitriou L. (December 2009). "The Railway Museum: present and future (Greek: Το Σιδηροδρομικό Μουσείο: Παρόν και Μέλλον)". Sidirotrohia (in Greek) (Friends of Railway Society) (36): 28–37.
  4. 130 Χρόνια Ηλεκτρικοί Σιδηρόδρομοι Αθηνών-Πειραιώς Α.Ε. (130 years of Athens-Piraeus electric railways). ISAP. 1999–2005. p. 27. ISBN 960-86477-0-3.

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Coordinates: 38°00′35.3″N 23°43′14.3″E / 38.009806°N 23.720639°E / 38.009806; 23.720639

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