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Location :-
Shanti Path, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
Timings :- Open
from Monday to Friday between 9-30 to 13-00 and 14-00 to 17-00 except Sunday and
Saturday.
National Rail Museums
This museum depicts 130 years of evolution
and development of the Indian railways, located in the diplomatic area of
Chanakyapuri with exotic and fascinating collections of Engines and other
exhibits. It houses a Victorian age engine built in 1885 still in working
condition. The exhibit includes a large number of oddities like the saloons of
the personal railways of many Maharajas. The carriage of the Maharaja of Mysore
made of teak covered with ivory; the cabin of the Prince of Wales (1876), the
carriage in which the ashes of Gandhiji was carried in 1948; Fairy Queen of
1855, evolution of Indian Rail from steam engine to present era are vividly
displayed. The museum displays 27 locomotives and 17 carriages. It was built as
per plan of British architect M G Satto on 1957, 1st t February, on the carpet
area of 10 acres of land. Even, the skull of an elephant that struck a Mail
train in 1894, with his head is also projected here.
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