Porta San Paolo Railway Museum

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Rome Porta San Paolo Railway Park Museum
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Railway Park Museum
Porta San Paolo Railway Museum
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EstablishedSeptember 18th 2004
LocationRome, Piazza di Porta San Paolo
Coordinates 41°52′29″N12°28′57″E / 41.8747°N 12.4825°E / 41.8747; 12.4825 Coordinates: 41°52′29″N12°28′57″E / 41.8747°N 12.4825°E / 41.8747; 12.4825
TypeRailway and tramline museum
Website http://www.roma.it/page.asp?p=137&r=1507&rs=1&act=1

The Rome Porta San Paolo Railway Park Museum is a museum in Rome (Italy), concerned with railway and tram transportation. It is housed next to the Roma Porta San Paolo railway station and the Piramide station of the metro (line B).

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General

The museum, inaugurated on 18 September 2004, is in part in the open, where the restored rolling stock can be seen, and in part indoors, where scale models, devices and technical objects are displayed, providing a full outline of the history of public rail transport in the Rome area.

Rolling stock

The rolling stock examples kept in the museum include:

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