Railway Museum of Thessaloniki

The building of the Military Station (Gare Militaire) of the Jonction - Salonique - Constantinople Ottoman Railway. Recently restored (2001), houses the collections of the Railway Museum of Thessaloniki.

The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Eleftherio-Kordelio, a municipality of the city of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A (French: Gare Militaire) of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople Railway (French: Jonction Salonique-Constantinople), near the current TX-3 signalbox. This historic station was built in 1891–1894 by the Italian architect Pierro Arigoni.

In the station-master’s office inside the station building there is a map with all Greek railway lines marked on it, railway workers’ uniforms, railway workmen’s tools, personal belongings, technical manuals and details of all old steam engines and diesel engines belonging to the Greek railways. The museum is also home to some of the furnishings from the carriages of the former Greek royal family. In the museum courtyard there is a restaurant carriage from the renowned Orient Express, which is open to visitors.

There are plans to put fifteen old OSE engines on display in front of the museum; these engines are at present undergoing reconstruction work. As from the summer of 2002 young friends of the railway can travel to the museum on the children’s train which departs from the new railway station of Thessaloniki.^[1]^[2]

The museum is open every Wednesday and Thursday between 10am and 13am, excluding public holidays.^[3] Photography is allowed only by advance arrangement.

Rolling stock collection

The rolling stock collection includes:

Internal view of Orient Express car

A SEK Class Ζα (De Glehn) 4-6-0 steam locomotive, possibly Ζα306.^[4]
Two SEK Class Δα (USATC S100) 0-6-0T steam locomotives
A luxury restaurant car used with the Orient Express trains
A railway crane and an oil-tank car of Piraeus-Demerli-Frontier railway

References

↑ Museums of Macedonia web site
↑ Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
↑ OSE page about the museum
↑ I. Zartaloudis, D. Karatolos, D. Koutelidis, G. Nathenas, S. Fasoulas, A. Filippoupolitis, A. (1997). Οι Ελληνικοί Σιδηρόδρομοι (Hellenic Railways) (in Greek). Μίλητος (Militos). p. 172. ISBN 960-8460-07-7.

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Museums in Thessaloniki

Archaeological	Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments Museum of Plaster Casts Prehistoric Antiquities Museum of Thessaloniki

Byzantine and ecclesiastic	Crypt of Saint Demetrius Museum of Byzantine Culture White Tower of Thessaloniki

Ethnological/historical	Atatürk Museum Goulandris Natural History Museum of Thessaloniki Balkan Wars Museum Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki Macedonian Historical Museum Museum for the Macedonian Struggle Natural History Museum War Museum of Thessaloniki

Folklore	Folk Art and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace

Art museums/galleries	Art Gallery of the Society of Macedonian Studies Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki National Bank of Greece Cultural Center Design Museum of Thessaloniki Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Municipal Art Gallery (Thessaloniki) Museum of the Macedonian Art Society Museum of Photography Thessaloniki Music Museum of Macedonia State Museum of Contemporary Art

Industry/technology	Broadcasting Museum of Thessaloniki Railway Museum of Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum "Noesis" Water Supply Museum

Education/sports	Museum of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Museum of the Cultural Foundation of the Greek Diaspora Museum of the National Center of Maps & Cartographic Heritage Plaster Casts Museum of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Olympic Museum

List of museums in Greece

Coordinates: 40°39′57.28″N 22°53′30.5″E / 40.6659111°N 22.891806°E / 40.6659111; 22.891806

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