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Museo del Ferrocarril | |
Established | 1967 in original location 1984 in current location |
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Location | Delicias Station, Paseo de las Delicias, 61, Madrid |
Coordinates | 40°23′54″N 3°41′39″W / 40.39833°N 3.69417°W |
Director | Carlos Abellán Ruiz |
Public transit access | |
Website | museodelferrocarril.org |
The Museo del Ferrocarril (Railway Museum) in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest historic railroad collections in Europe. It is housed in a redundant railway station called Madrid-Delicias in the barrio of Delicias. The location is near the centre of Madrid.
The railway museum opened in the Palacio de Fernán Núñez, which is now the seat of the Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles. After an agreement between RENFE and the Ministry of Culture regarding the future of Las Delicias station, the collections were transferred to Las Delicias which opened as a railway museum in 1984.[1]