Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum

Railway and tramway museum in Trieste, via Giulio Cesare

45°38′45″N 13°45′18″E / 45.6459°N 13.7551°E / 45.6459; 13.7551TypeRailway and tramway museumWebsitehttp://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,^[update] the museum has been closed for renovation by the Fondazione FS (the heritage foundation of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane).^[1]

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:

728.022, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf 1921
640.064 Società Italiana Ernesto Breda 1909
Armoured car, former German Army
683.015 locomotive, MÁVAG 1918
Three tramway car, built in the 30s and 40s, and a tramway trailer
Snowplow Vnx 806.201, former FS Class E550, used on the Udine-Tarvisio line

References

^ "Trieste Campo Marzio, la prima stazione-museo d'Italia". Fondazionefs.it.
^ "Il museo ferroviario finisce in scatola". Ilpiccolo.gelocal.it. 29 October 2017.
^ "L'archivio di Photorail - Museo Trieste Campo Marzio". Photorail.it.