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A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
A map of the Polish railway network in 1939. Even though the Polish railway network in 1939 had deficiencies, the majority of important cities had convenient rail connections with each other. The major exception was the connection of Wilno to the seaport of Gdynia, some 500 km away. Trains running on this route had to cover a distance of about ...
The main branch is the National Museum in Kraków (Polish: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie), established in 1879. It has several hundred thousand items in its permanent collections, kept mostly at the Main Building at 3 Maja St., and partly in eight other divisions around the city.
Courtyard of the National Museum of Warsaw, a registered museum. The Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland may inscribe a Polish museum into the National Register of Museums (Polish: Państwowy Rejestr Muzeów) in order to confirm the high level of its cultural activity and the importance of its collection. Only those museums that ...
The museum was reestablished at the present site, as Railway Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie), in 1972. On 30 July 2009, PKP S.A. the Polish state railway company served notice to quit on the Museum authorities requiring them to vacate their current location by 31 August 2009. [ 2 ]
The Polish railways network consists of around 18,807 kilometres (11,686 mi) of track as of 2023, [2]: 7 of which 12,149 km (7,549 mi) is electrified. [2]: 13 The national electrification system runs at 3 kV DC. Poland is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), its UIC Country Code is 51.
Headquarters of General Government Eastern Railways (Ostbahn) in Kraków at Plac Matejki. Ostbahn (German: for Eastern Railway) in the General Government, were the Nazi German railways in occupied Poland during World War II, subordinated to the General Directorate of Eastern Railways (German: Generaldirektion der Ostbahn, Gedob) in occupied Kraków; a branch of the Deutsche Reichsbahn National ...