Museum of Railway Transport: History and Modernity

One of the most interesting museums in Moscow is, of course, the Russian Railway Transport Museum, located on two sites, with extensive exhibits, high-tech equipment and well-organized excursion services. The museum was opened in August 2011 after a long renovation.

Structure of the museum

The Museum of Railway Transport adjoins the Paveletsky railway station and is located behind the railway station, to the left of the tracks. The historical part of the museum exposition, located on an area of 1850 square meters. Meters, includes a number of exhibits on the development of the Russian railway. The legendary U-127 steam locomotive, built in 1910, which in January 1924 (two days after Lenin's death) was carried by a mourning train with the leader's body from the Gerasimov platform to the Paveletsky railway station is considered to be the museum's pride. After this sad mission, the U-127 drove the trains for 13 years, it was written off in 1937. Then it was decided to keep the locomotive as a monument. However, the U-127 memorial was certified only in 1999. About the mourning flight with the late leader of the proletariat was not mentioned.

In addition to the U-127, the Museum of Railway Transport at Paveletskaya has no other exhibits from the number of rolling stock . All wheel museum rarities are located on the territory adjacent to the Riga railway station. Various railway equipment, steam locomotives built in the first half of the 20th century, wagons and freight platforms, crushed stone self-propelled machines, track-layers, etc. are widely represented here. The Railway Transport Museum collects rare exhibits all over Russia, usually in a single copy, and such A rarity, undoubtedly, is the locomotive OB-841, built 110 years ago.

In addition to the old railway copies, quite modern diesel locomotives, wagons and railway cars stand on the sidings of the Riga railway station . The exposition is assembled from technical means that somehow left their mark on the history of the Russian railway.

Exhibition center of the museum

The exhibition center of the museum presents the current models of railway equipment. Of particular interest to those who visited the Railway Transport Museum is the VL80S electric locomotive simulator. This unique device reveals the technique of training machinists. Many exhibits of the historical part of the museum reflect the current state of affairs on the Russian railway. Visitors can see the Kazan Station from a bird's-eye view, the layout is made with absolute accuracy.

The reputation of one of the best exhibition enterprises of Moscow obliges the Central Museum of Russian Railways to regularly update the museum exposition. Presented in the form of an operating model high-speed train "Sputnik", a little further along the miniature rails sweeps a high-speed train "Sapsan", which connected Moscow, Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Today's exposition of the Railway Transport Museum is carefully thought out and presented in mock-ups, operating models, photographs and drawings.