Museo ferroviario di Trieste Campo Marzio | |
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Established | March 8, 1984 |
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Location | Trieste, via Giulio Cesare 1 |
Coordinates | 45°38′45″N 13°45′18″E / 45.6459°N 13.7551°E |
Type | Railway 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, [update] the museum has been closed for renovation by the Fondazione FS (the heritage foundation of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane). [1]
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.
The rolling stock [3] examples kept in the museum include: