Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum

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Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum
Museo ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio
Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum
EstablishedMarch 8, 1984
LocationTrieste, via Giulio Cesare 1
Coordinates 45°38′45″N13°45′18″E / 45.6459°N 13.7551°E / 45.6459; 13.7551 Coordinates: 45°38′45″N13°45′18″E / 45.6459°N 13.7551°E / 45.6459; 13.7551
TypeRailway and tramway museum
Website http://www.museoferroviariotrieste.it

The Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum is a museum in Trieste (Italy), concerned with railway and tram transportation. It is housed in Trieste Campo Marzio railway station, the former Trieste Staatsbahnhof (earlier still known as the Sankt-Andrae-Bahnhof) during the Austro-Hungarian period and one of the two main terminal stations in Trieste. Since July 2017, the museum has been closed for renovation by the Fondazione FS (the heritage foundation of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane). [1]

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General

The museum, inaugurated on March 8, 1984, hosts historic rolling stock and locomotives on the five existing tracks of the former passenger station built by Austro-Hungarian government. Inside the station building the museum holds devices, signals and interlocking, as well as scale models [2] . It covers all the railways history of Trieste area from mid-19th century to mid-20th century: during this period the city and its nearby territory were part of different nations, as Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Italy, Socialist Yugoslavia and Republican Italy.

Rolling stock

The rolling stock [3] examples kept in the museum include:

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References

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  2. "Il museo ferroviario finisce in scatola". Ilpiccolo.gelocal.it. 29 October 2017.
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