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Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya

08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (Katalonien)
Address Plaza de Eduard Maristany, s/n
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Railway
  • Railway Technique
  • Media

Opening times
 Tuesday - Sunday: 10.30-14.30; Saturday: 10.30-14.30 + 16.00-18.30

Admission
Status from 12/2016
Entrada general: 6 €; Entrada reducida: 4’50 €: Tarifa súper-reducida: 3 €
(entrada válida para dos jornadas durante un mes, a partir de la fecha de compra)
Contact
Tel.:+34-93-815 84 91  eMail:museuferrocarril ffe.es  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
museudelferrocarril.org
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Location / Directions
N41.221000° E1.731222°N41°13.26000' E1°43.87332'N41°13'15.6000" E1°43'52.3992"
It is located close to the railway station in Vilanova i la Geltrú, 40 km south of Barcelona.
Location / Directions
(other)		 Al lado de la estació de Renfe
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Catalonia Railway Museum
has a large collection of historic railway locomotives and other rolling stock in the former station roundhouse and on its surrounding outdoor grounds.

The items collected in this Museum are of a quality and interest highly considered internationally. The collection has more than sixty vehicles from all periods of history, diverse countries of origin and different technologies. 28 notable steam locomotives from late XIX century and a copy of the first steam locomotive used in the Iberian Peninsula (1848), which is in a demo real short trip each month's first Sundays, back and forth along the museum's roundhouse. Also, visitors find diesel and electric locomotives, coaches, a Bogie type Harlan, a signal bridge, and an original interlocking lever frame table used in the Barcelona central railway station.

The Museum's Library has more than 6.100 volumes in its catalogue of which several are originals dated along the 1950 decade. The total record of items is avobe 5.000, of which 400 are video recordings and 10.000 photografic pictures Visitors can find works about trains and vehicles, rail traffic documentation, history and legislation, statistics, infrastructure and more railway related items.
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