Railway and tramway museum in Trieste, via Giulio Cesare
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]
General
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.
Rolling stock
The rolling stock [3] examples kept in the museum include:
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