EnsemblesUnder 1 km away
Railway Workers' Palace of Culture
A 1938 palace of culture in Tashkent's Mirobod district, home to a cinema, concert hall, libraries and the museum of Uzbekistan's railway history.
Tashkent Museum of Railway Equipment
Uzbekistan's only railway museum, an open-air yard of steam, diesel and electric locomotives opened in 1989, with rides on an old train around the grounds.
MuseumsOpened 1989About 1 hour to see
About the place
The collection began as a display of working locomotives at Tashkent's main station for the centenary of the Central Asian railway in 1988; it proved so popular that it was kept, and the museum opened on 4 August 1989, Railway Workers' Day. It belongs to the Railway Workers' Palace of Culture next door.
On show are 13 steam engines, 18 diesel and 3 electric locomotives along with wagons, signals, semaphores, radio equipment, tools and drivers' uniforms. The oldest engine is a 1914 Ov class steam locomotive known as "the Lamb". A short train takes visitors on a ride of almost a kilometre around the grounds.
Why go
- Over thirty historic locomotives
- A steam engine from 1914
- Train rides around the museum grounds
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