Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Venice

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The museum is Europe’s largest open-air museum with a collection of unique steam locomotives, freight and passenger wagons, draisine, etc. The collection of steam engines, locomotives, draisine and carriages comprises 70 exhibits. The oldest of these date back to the 19th century: a unique postal carriage – the smallest in Europe, a tank car, miniature platforms, two-axle freight wagons and a steam locomotive made by Orenstein & Koppel in Berlin. In addition, the Venetian open-air museum features a stylish railway waiting room, a postal carriage in which mail is stamped with a special date stamp, an exhibition of uniforms, lanterns, punch boxes, signal marks and other items used on narrow-gauge railways.

Visitors can admire the ‘forest railway’, with a 1918 HF Henschel & Sohn steam locomotive, goods trains with covered wagons, the ‘beet railway’, ‘snow plough’ wagons, ‘cradle’ wagons for transporting raw materials in brickyards, and passenger wagons operated in the inter-war period by the Żnińska Kolej Powiatowa. The museum in Venice has a collection of 17 steam locomotives, two hand draisine, two diesel locomotives, produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s at the Poznan Railway Repair Works, and two motor draisine. The collection of rolling stock is supplemented by such equipment as a narrow-gauge railway turntable from 1908, water pumps, an antique platform clock, semaphores, switches and many types of equipment and tools related to the technical operation of the more than 100-year-old railway.