Railway Museum (Madrid)
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Museo del Ferrocarril | |
Established | 1967 in original location; 1984 in current location |
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Location | Delicias Station, Paseo de las Delicias, 61, Madrid |
Coordinates | 40°23′54″N 3°41′39″W / 40.39833°N 3.69417°W |
Director | Carlos Abellán Ruiz |
Public transit access | Commuter rail: lines C1 and C10, Delicias railway station. Metro: line 3, Delicias |
The Museo del Ferrocarril (Railway Museum) in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest historic railroad collections in Europe. It is housed in a redundant railway station called Madrid-Delicias in the barrio of Delicias. The location is near the centre of Madrid.
The railway museum opened in the Palacio de Fernán Núñez, which is now the seat of the Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles. After an agreement between
The building
The building is not to be confused with the station opened in 1996 by Cercanías Madrid called Delicias.
The station was opened in March 1880 by King
In the year the station was opened, the railway company was absorbed by a larger rival,
Architecture
As a
The building was designed by a French engineer, Émile Cachelièvre. It has been suggested that he was influenced by
Collections
Rolling stock
The train shed of the former station now houses historic rolling stock.
Steam
Steam was used on the Spanish railways in the period 1848–1975, although the earliest locomotive in the museum dates from the 1860s.
Diesel
Locomotives in the collection include:
Signalling
The museum has preserved part of a hydraulic system, developed by the Italian firm Bianchi and Servettaz, which was used to control points switching and signalling at Algodor.[3]
Train service
The museum runs a heritage train service to Aranjuez. Known as the "strawberry train", it uses vintage rolling stock.[4]
As a film set
The station has been used as a location in numerous films and television series. Several films set in Russia, but shot mostly in Spain, used the station as location: Dr Zhivago (1965) by David Lean,[5] Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) by Franklin J. Schaffner and Reds (1981) by Warren Beatty. Other films filmed there include The Violet Seller (1958) by Luis César Amadori, Travels with My Aunt (1972) by George Cukor, March or Die (1977) by Dick Richards and Lovers (1991) by Vicente Aranda. Television series include Televisión Española's Cuéntame cómo pasó, Netflix's Cable Girls and Antena 3's The Time in Between and Velvet.[6]
References
- ^ "General Information". Madrid Railway Museum (Museo del Ferrocarril). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Planos del proyecto original de la estación de Delicias" (PDF). Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid. 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
- ^ "Enclavamiento". www.museodelferrocarril.org/. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Strawberry train". Madrid Railway Museum. 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ^ Sánchez, Felipe (2015). "Un figurante de 'Doctor Zhivago' cuenta el día que Madrid fue soviética". El País. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Silence, we're rolling!". Railway Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2020.