Railway Museum of Thessaloniki
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The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum
in Eleftherio-Kordelio
, a municipality
of the city of Thessaloniki
, Greece
. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople Railway , near the current TX-3 signalbox. This historic station was built in 1891-1894 by the Italian architect Pierro Arigoni.
The museum is open every Wednesday and Thursday between 10am and 13am, excluding public holidays. Photography is allowed only by special arrangement in advance.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
in Eleftherio-Kordelio
Eleftherio-Kordelio
Eleftherio-Kordelio is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality of the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kordelio-Evosmos, of which it is a municipal unit. It gained its present form in 1982,...
, a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
of the city of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. It was founded in 2001 and is housed in the old Military Railway Station A of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople Railway , near the current TX-3 signalbox. This historic station was built in 1891-1894 by the Italian architect Pierro Arigoni.
The museum is open every Wednesday and Thursday between 10am and 13am, excluding public holidays. Photography is allowed only by special arrangement in advance.
Rolling stock collection
The rolling stock collection includes:- A SEK Class Ζα (De Glehn) 4-6-0 steam locomotive, possibly Ζα306.
- Two SEK Class ΔαSEK Class ΔαSEK Class Δα was a class of twenty 0-6-0T steam locomotives of the Hellenic State Railways in Greece. These were ex-United States Army Transportation Corps S100 Class. They were delivered to SEK in 1946-1947 and were numbered Δα51-70. Two of these locomotives still survive and are undergoing...
(USATC S100) 0-6-0T steam locomotives - A luxury restaurant car used with the Orient Express trains
- A railway crane and an oil-tank car of Piraeus-Demerli-Frontier railway