Pereslavl Railway Museum, Railway museum in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.
The Pereslavl Railway Museum is a private technical museum in the village of Talitsy, Pereslavl district, holding full-size narrow-gauge locomotives, railcars and wagons from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Its collection includes four steam locomotives built between 1928 and 1955, among them the Finnish Tampella F4-028 of 1945, the only surviving example in the world. Exhibits stand in the open and under sheds, with about one kilometre of restored track.
In 1989 Vadim Mironov and Anatoly Gusev, owner of the Yaroslavl cooperative Dekor, decided to buy a narrow-gauge railway and turn it into a museum. The museum opened in 1991 as a private collection with limited access, became freely accessible in 1998, and has charged admission since 2006. In 2002–2003 it ran scheduled passenger service from Kupanskoye to Pereslavl, and in 2008 a Potanin Foundation grant funded road repairs, period road signs and a parking area.
The museum's collection includes the bell of Trufanovo station from the former Tula–Likhvin railway line and snowploughs built to the Bjorke system between 1928 and 1953. Its exhibits are often used for film and television shoots, and visitors can buy souvenirs such as magnets, hats, postcards and toy locomotives.
The museum is in the settlement of Talitsy, Pereslavsky District, not in Pereslavl-Zalessky itself. Since 2008 a parking area with a guardhouse has been set up at the entrance to the settlement. The museum is open to the public since 1998, and since 2006 admission is paid. Visitors can ride retro trains by prior arrangement.
The Finnish Tampella locomotive Ft4-028 of 1945 is the only surviving example of its type in the world. The museum also keeps a boiler of a Kolomna type O locomotive, probably from 1918, and a fragment of a Krauss 900 mm gauge tank engine from the 1880s. Its exhibits have appeared in film and television shoots.
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