Tashkent

Museum of Railway Engineering

ooh Turkiston 6, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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The Museum of Railway Engineering is one of the most interesting museums in the world association of technical museums. It was opened in the capital of Uzbekistan in 1989, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Uzbek Railway. The museum is part of the Palace of Culture of Railway Workers, is an object of socio-technical culture.

The museum contains samples of railway equipment - from the oldest to modern, as well as a large number of various thematic exhibits. The oldest exhibits were repaired and reconstructed, the entire complex of the museum was updated. The exhibits include the oldest sample of railway equipment - locomotive "OV", released in 1914. There is also the most powerful locomotive P-36. In total, the museum presents 18 locomotives and 13 locomotives, as well as 3 electric locomotives, wagons and repair equipment. A small department of the history of the Uzbek railway, located in the car, is considered very interesting. There are telegraph machines, including the Morse apparatus, as well as systems, maps, lanterns and other items of railway workers. There is also a children's railway with an excursion train.

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