The Museum of Railway Transport in Moscow includes a historical part (located at Kozhevnicheskaya St., 2) and a technical part - a site of natural samples of railway equipment, located at the Rizhsky railway station.
total area Museum of railway technology in the open air is about 1.5 hectares.
Exposition of the Museum of Russian Railways at the Rizhsky railway station
Visitors can see everything related to railway technology. The museum's collection includes more than 70 different exhibits, consisting of trains, wagons and other railway equipment from different times. Some exhibits are included in the gold fund of Russia and have special awards.
Guests of the open-air exhibition are invited to look not only at samples of modern technology, but also historical exhibits, and the exposition is not limited to trains Russian production. Numerous locomotives, electric locomotives, wagons are presented here. various types and special railway equipment and even a locomotive hydrocolumn of the 1936 model is designed to supply steam locomotives with water along the way.
The main goal of the museum is not only to demonstrate various unique equipment, but also to preserve the spirit of the unique world of the railway for future generations. Each exhibit of this unusual museum, among other things, is a model of engineering. Rare historical transport is here on a well-deserved rest after restoration work, which is often carried out with the help of the employees of the museum itself, allowing you to achieve maximum historical authenticity.
At the moment, 71 exhibits are presented in the railway museum: these are steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, saloon cars, sanitary cars, a teplyushka, special railway equipment, etc.
Here you can see a unique tank car and an ambulance car, as well as a kitchen car and a saloon car designed for VIPs of both the pre-revolutionary and Soviet eras.
The exposition exhibits are constantly used by film companies for filming feature films and documentaries(for example, you could see some exhibits in the films "Alexander Garden", "Admiral" and others).
The Russian Railways Museum at the Rizhsky Station also tells about the history of the railway and how railway technology has evolved from its origins to the present. It will be interesting to look into a small steam locomotive. It is available to all visitors. In it, you can turn the levers, pull the handles, press the buttons. In a word, the museum is very interesting for both adults and children and will leave only positive emotions.
Museum opening hours
"Platform of full-scale samples" at the Moscow-Rizhskaya station is open all year round from Wednesday to Sunday. Opening hours: from 10:00 to 16:00. Please note: Monday and Tuesday are always days off, and you can only see historical trains behind the fence.
Prices in the museum at the Rizhsky railway station
An entrance ticket to the railway museum at the Rizhsky railway station costs from 60 to 300 rubles, depending on the category:
- The cost of a full ticket (for adults) is 150 rubles;
- Reduced ticket (children from 7 years old, students, pensioners) - 100 rubles;
- Preschool ticket (children 3-7 years old) - 60 rubles;
- A single price for foreign citizens is 300 rubles.
You can also purchase a guided tour of the museum (maximum number of people per group is 20). The tour is paid separately, on top of the cost of entrance tickets.
Excursion cost:
- for citizens of the Russian Federation - 1500 rubles;
- for foreign citizens (for English language) - 3600 rubles.
How to get to the Museum of the Moscow Railway
The open area of the Moscow Railway Museum at the Rizhsky railway station is distinguished by simple and understandable transport accessibility. The universal option is the metro: go to the Rizhskaya station of the same name, then go to the station building and turn right from it to the next building. There will be a museum sign in front of the fenced area.
Other options: buses and trolleybuses often run to the Rizhsky Vokzal stop, there are flights from different parts of the city.
Do not forget that the Rizhsky railway station is mainly suburban, and there are electric trains from the nearest settlements to it, most of which are part of the administrative districts of Moscow.
To order a car, you can use the applications of local taxi services: for example, Gett or Yandex. Taxi.
Video: Museum of Steam Locomotives at the Rizhsky Railway Station
The territory of the Museum of Russian Railways on Rizhskaya - Google Maps panorama
The Central Museum of Railway Transport is one of the oldest technical museums in the world. It was founded in 1813 as a "special room" for storing models at the Institute of the Corps of Railway Engineers. Active replenishment of the collection began with the development of railway transport in Western Europe and America. In 1859, a special decree was issued, according to which all institutions engaged in construction in Russia were required to send models and drawings of constructed structures to the institute: transport facilities, bridges, administrative buildings, monuments and cathedrals. In 1862 the museum opened to the public. In 1901-1902, a new building was built for him in the Yusupov Garden. The museum survived the revolution but almost perished from mismanagement in the early 1930s. During the war, his collections were evacuated to Novosibirsk.
Currently, the museum's funds contain more than 60 thousand items: albums, drawings, photographs, books, more than 300 models of locomotives and wagons. 11 halls of halls are full of static and dynamic models and layouts. Despite this, the museum remains little known, only a few tourists coming to St. Petersburg are aware of its existence.
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1. On the main staircase, visitors are greeted by a huge map of the railways of the USSR. 
2. Below it are compact dioramas showing the evolution of passenger and cargo stations. 
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6. The first hall is dedicated to the birth of railways in the world and in Russian Empire. In the center is a bust of Franz Gerstner, who built the Tsarskoye Selo railway. 
7. The hall displays models of the first steam locomotives of the Tsarskoye Selo Railway. 
8. The first domestic railway tickets. 
9. Telegraph line of the Nikolaev railway. 
10. The second hall is dedicated to bridge building. 
11. Here are models of a wide variety of bridge structures. 
12. The current model of the lifting Volkhov bridge. 
13. Model of the Krasnoluzhsky bridge on MOZhD. 
14. Now this bridge has been moved to a new location and turned into a pedestrian one. 
15. A cut of a larch cut down during the laying of the Trans-Siberian. 
16. In the third hall, you can see models of cars and steam locomotives of the tsarist era, as well as authentic samples of the first communication devices in Russia. 
17. Model of a water tower on a hyperboloid base. 
18. First, mechanical automation of arrows and semaphores. 
19. Models are made in different scales and their different materials. 
20. Steam locomotive type 1-2-0, built at the Kolomna plant in late XIX century. 
21. Model of the steam locomotive "C" of the release of 1911. 
22. Commodity steam locomotive type 0-3-0 + 0-3-0 brand F N (Ferli). They were built in 1879 by the Siegl factory in Vienna. 
23. Section of a freight locomotive, made in the Moscow workshops of the Moscow-Brest railway. 
24. Unique, completely wooden model. 
25. This is a 1-2-0 passenger locomotive. 
26. The model is great! 
27. Models of passenger cars of the Trans-Siberian Express. 
28. Compartment car. 
29. Restaurant car (more precisely, saloon car). 
30. Suburban train. There was no heating system in these wagons. Passengers were either given blankets, or hot bricks were placed under the seat, which, after cooling, could be replaced, but at an additional cost. 
31. Carriage of the third class, with wooden shelves. Interestingly, the upper shelves were laid out and connected into one. On them, the settlers climbed three or four of them and lay along with the transported livestock. It was warmer that way. 
32. Something similar was in the 3rd class carriage of the North Caucasian Railways in 1890-1900. 
33. Two-axle wagon for the transport of live fish. 
34. Several communication and automation devices. 
35. Yuz's direct-printing telegraph apparatus with a weight drive by Siemens and Halske, St. Petersburg, 1870-1880s. 
36. Several exhibits come from the 20th century. 
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38. A small hall number 5 is dedicated to the war. 
39. German track destroyer of the "hook" system. During the war, 65 thousand kilometers of railway tracks, more than 13 thousand artificial structures, more than 4 thousand stations were destroyed. New lines were laid at a speed of 16 km per day. 115 thousand kilometers of railways were restored (some roads were restored two or three times). 
40. The sixth hall is dedicated to the construction of railways and track construction machines. 
41. Types of railway embankments and recesses. 
42. Fragments of the canvas demonstrating the fastening of the rails and the design of the joints. 
43. I have always been fascinated by the sight of such intersections. As if the paths are collected in a bouquet. 
44. Antique devices used by the railway workers to check the rails. Profiler. 
45. Rolling gauge for measuring track gauge and rail elevation. 
46. Types of columns and indicators. 
47. The exposition of the hall was mainly created in the 1960s-1970s, so one of the walls is occupied by a poster with the image of BAM. 
48. Model of the UK25/21 track-laying crane of the V.I. Platonov. 
49. How much work is invested in the creation of these layouts! 
50. Much of this is done by the hands of engineering students. 
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53. Model of the B-5 ballasting machine. 
54. The car was awarded the 1st Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris. 
55. It was created in 1938 by designers V.A. Alyoshin, F.D. Barykin and P.G. Belogortsev. 
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58. Model of the PRSM-3 self-propelled rail welding machine. 
59. Electric rotary snowplow ESO-3 (BRS). 
60. Hall No. 8 presents an extensive collection of wagon models. 
61. Eight-axle tank car model 15-880 for transportation of light oil products (gasoline, etc.). 
62. Ice car. 
63. Refrigerator. 
64. Twenty-axle (!) Conveyor. 
65. Thematic paintings hang on the walls of the halls. 
66. A model demonstrating the principle of operation of the locomotive propulsor L. 
67. The pride of the museum is a collection of locomotives in hall number 7. 
68. Here are the models of the most common and interesting locomotives. 
69. Two-section freight diesel locomotive of the 2TE10L series. 
70. Inside the cab. 
71. Shunting diesel locomotive TGM3-012. 
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73. Shunting diesel locomotive TEM2-003. 
74. One of the world's first mainline diesel locomotives - G E 1 engineer Ya.M. Gakkel. 
75. Two-section gas turbine locomotive GT101-001. 
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77. Diesel locomotive TE10. 
78. Two-section freight electric locomotive VL80-001. 
79. Two-section freight electric locomotive VL85-005. 
80. Electric train ER10-001. 
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83. Also in the hall there is an automatic stand telling about children's railways in the USSR. 
84. In the “car building” hall, in addition to the already mentioned cars, models of projects that have not been implemented are presented. For example, the air train engineer S.S. Waldner and the balloon train engineer N.G. Yarmolchuk 
85. Also in the hall is a model of a section of a soft 16-seater car 15sb of the Yegorovsky plant. He exhibited at the All-Union Industrial Exhibition and received a diploma of the 1st degree. 
86. The layout served to test the design of a luxury compartment and was made in the early 1950s, before the serial production of these cars. Behind the door on the left there is a toilet and shower. 
87. Model of an experimental double-decker car with a dome for viewing the area. Built by the Egorov Leningrad Plant in 1965. 
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90. This could be the new, high-speed highway Moscow - St. Petersburg, but we went along the simplest path, using the old Nikolaevsky highway. 
91. Finally, the most interesting exhibits of the museum. The current layout of the sorting hump was created in 1935, simultaneously with the first hump in the USSR. 
92. The Krasny Liman station of the Donetsk railway served as a prototype for the layout. with the first mechanized slide in the country, put into operation in 1934. 
93. The guide operates the slide. 
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How it works live, you can see on the video:
95. Next to the mock-up you can see a genuine route hump drive, which worked on a sorting hump from the 1940s to the 1960s. 
96. And here is a model of devices that slow down cars when going down a hill. 
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98. One of the few modern exhibits of the museum is this huge map donated by Russian Railways. 
99. The entire last hall is occupied by one exhibit - a model of an electrified section of the railway. It demonstrates the work of automation that regulates the movement of trains. 
100. The layout is controlled by authentic remotes. 
101. Here are the consoles DC (dispatching centralization), MRC (route-relay centralization), EC (electrical interlocking) and MKU (route-key control). 
102. According to the layout, following the instructions of the automation, a three-car electric train ER2 on a scale of 1:50 can drive. 
103. The length of the layout path is 43 meters. 
104. It has four stations. 
105. The model was created in the 1930s, but it still works and is shown on every excursion. 
107. Finally, it is worth mentioning that there is a small open exhibition in the courtyard, but visitors usually do not reach here. 
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We visited this museum on April 21, 2012.
To begin with, my son (3.5 years old) is a fan of trains. In all kinds. Therefore, you understand that we all were looking forward to this event. Let me just say that we really enjoyed it.
So, in order. A trip to this museum can consist of three parts:
1) actually visiting the museum (it is open-air, the ticket costs mere pennies)
2) trips on an old steam locomotive to the Krasny Baltiets station and back with a visit to the old depot
3) and visiting the exhibition complex next to the entrance to the museum at the Rizhsky railway station (there are train models and, according to rumors, a working model of the railway).
All this takes time from about 12.00 to 16.00. We were on Saturday. The first and third events can be visited by paying for it on the spot, and the locomotive trip must be paid in advance either at the office of the Retrotrain company that organizes this (this is an office that has nothing to do with Russian Railways) or at Millennium Bank terminals.
The whole event - ONLY POSITIVE EMISSIONS: cool trains, a good guide, the child was not bored - when he got tired of listening, he climbed the trains. My husband listened with his mouth open and forgetting about his father's duties. The train ride is also very impressive. In general, we are delighted.
By the way, there were almost more children of our age than adults. And the weather did not disappoint - it was not cold and not hot - April - the best time to attend such events. In summer it is unbearable to walk for 2 hours in the heat.
True, my child said that he would still go to the museum, but he would NEVER ride on a steam locomotive, because the locomotive hums very strongly. It's true. He buzzes so that lays his ears, and it is much louder than a regular train. But fun. Still small. Will ask in a couple of years.
What did not like:
1) There were oddities with paying for tickets for the Retro train (700 rubles per adult, 500 rubles per child, children under 7 years old are free). I paid 3 days before the trip at the Millennium Bank terminal - I checked in advance at the office that they still had free places, then I called the office to clarify whether the payment was received (the surname and contact phone number are indicated in the terminal) - they confirmed that everything was received, come. Moreover, they write on the website that a contact phone number is needed in order to call and warn if something is cancelled. Imagine my surprise when, having arrived at the Rizhsky railway station, I received a warning from a nice girl that we were not on the list, and we might not get on the train today. Then we will be offered to come next time. We got on the train, of course. Made the muzzle brick. But there were nerves. It became scary at the thought of how I would explain this. little child, who was waiting for a trip for a week ... I immediately remembered the scoop. In general, I advise you to pay for this trip directly at the Retropass office - or rather it will be. And then a couple of times to check if everything is in order. And then I saw the face of a boy who, together with his mother, did not get on this train. He was 13 years old and he was crying.
2) The exhibition complex opposite was closed for technical reasons - we were not able to see the model of the railway.
We hope that in the near future we will nevertheless reach this exhibition complex and look at the museum again.
It's done! On July 1, 2012, we finally reached the exhibition complex. It is one large room, where a huge working model of the railway is presented and some expositions near the walls of the room (train models, driver's simulator, etc.). The child was delighted - he ran around the model behind the moving trains ... for about forty minutes ... In general, for boys - the very thing.
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