Railway Museum of Thessaloniki, Railway museum in Eleftherio-Kordelio, Greece.
The Railway Museum of Thessaloniki occupies a historic railway building and displays preserved steam locomotives, diesel engines, and vintage passenger cars in working condition. The exhibition also features signaling equipment, tools, and mechanical systems that reveal how trains were operated and maintained.
Built between 1891 and 1894 by Italian architect Pietro Arrigoni, the station served the Thessaloniki-Constantinople railway, known in French as the Jonction Salonique-Constantinople. In 2012 Greece's Ministry of Culture listed the main building and the shells of its three auxiliary structures as monuments.
The locomotives and carriages on display reveal how rail travel shaped everyday movement and connections across Greece. The collection tells stories of workers and passengers who depended on these trains to travel and conduct business.
The museum is open only on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10:00–13:00, and closed on public holidays. Photography requires advance arrangement. It stands in Eleftherio-Kordelio beside the TX-3 signalbox; in summer a children's train runs there from Thessaloniki's new railway station.
Among the exhibits is a furniture piece combining a seat and a washbasin from the "Royal Train"; it is one of the few objects surviving from that train. The collection also holds furnishings from the carriages of the former Greek royal family.
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