Railway Museum of Athens / Athens

Σιδηροδρομικό Μουσείο Αθήνα

The Railroad Museum of Athens or otherwise the Museum of Greek Railways is the largest railway museum in Greece and was established in 1979. It consists of two main buildings and courtyard area that is designated for outdoor events, including entertainment and children's train. Entrance and gu...

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The Railroad Museum of Athens or otherwise the Museum of Greek Railways is the largest railway museum in Greece and was established in 1979.

It consists of two main buildings and courtyard area that is designated for outdoor events, including entertainment and children's train.

Entrance and guided tours are FREE.
 
The exhibition area of ​​the Railway Museum of Athens spans six rooms:

In the first room, which is located on the ground floor, exposed: Hand and foot draizines. Surveying instruments, drawings, photographs.

In the second room, also on the ground floor, exposed: locomotives, passenger cars, manual fire pumps and fire extinguishers. Various models of rolling stock, various tables with technical data locomotives.

In C hall, which operates on two levels, ground floor and first floor, exposed:
- Equipment stations (tickets boring machines, manual machines print tickets, old tickets, maps, schedules, seals, trumpets, lanterns, telegraph and telegraphic equipment, watches , handsets)
- Printed material (stocks, contracts, regulations holding brochures pricing policy)
- Uniform uniforms and accessories (buttons, pilikia), historical photographs staff.

In the fourth room, which is on the ground floor, exposed:
A workshop with machinery manufacture about 1882. Steam boiler, steam powered water pumps, lights locomotives. Various machines (Drapanos, manual press, etc.). Various organs locomotives (gauges, tachometers, etc.). Showcase with printed manuals and regulations of railway companies.

R room, which is located on the first floor, exposed: miscellaneous furniture, drawings, pieces of crockery food, etc from old royal vehicles.

In VI hall, which is also exposed to floor: Models rolling stock. Chart locomotive brake.

Phone: 210-5297517 and 210-5297548

Siokou 4, 104 43 Athens

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