Railway Museum of Thessaloniki

The building of the Military Station (Gare Militaire) of the Jonction - Salonique - Constantinople Ottoman Railway. Recently restored (2001), houses the collections of the Railway Museum of Thessaloniki.

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 (French: Gare Militaire) of the Thessaloniki-Constantinople Railway (French: Jonction Salonique-Constantinople), 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.^[1] 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.^[2]
• Two SEK Class Δα (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

References

External links

• Media related to Railway Museum of Thessaloniki at Wikimedia Commons
• Museum web site

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