Beijing Railway Museum
No.2A Qianmen Main Street, Chongwen District, Beijing, China
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The Beijing Railway Museum houses locomotives built in the People’s Republic of China since 1949. It is the first museum of its kind in Beijing. The total area of the exhibition halls of the museum is 16,500 square meters.
The museum is housed in a railway station built in 1906. Here are the first steam engine, a locomotive “Chinese rocket”, details of trains, medals, books (there are even books in Russian), paintings and old photos with trains and locomotives, inscriptions in the style of “Antiperson stop”, collections of travel tickets, models of various stations. Projectors on the walls broadcast videos with trains and patriotic music. On a special large touch screen you can see photos of trains.
Opening time of the museum: from 9 to 16:30 hours.