Porta San Paolo Railway Museum
| Parco museo ferroviario Roma Porta San Paolo | |
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| Established | September 18th 2004 |
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| Location | Rome, Piazza di Porta San Paolo |
| Type | Railway and tramline museum |
| Website | http://www.roma.it/page.asp?p=137&r=1507&rs=1&act=1 |
The Rome Porta San Paolo Railway Park Museum is a museum in Rome (Italy), concerned with railway and tram transportation. It is housed next to the Roma Porta San Paolo railway station and the Piramide station of the metro (line B).
The museum, inaugurated on 18 September 2004, is in part in the open, where the restored rolling stock can be seen, and in part indoors, where scale models, devices and technical objects are displayed, providing a full outline of the history of public rail transport in the Rome area.
The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Monday to Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday. Entrance is free.
The rolling stock examples kept in the museum include:
Electric locomotive "STEFER" 05
Tram STFER series 400
Coordinates: 41°52′29″N 12°28′57″E / 41.8747°N 12.4825°E
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