Exhibitions of the Moscow railway. Prices in the museum at Rizhsky Station
We visited this museum on April 21, 2012.
Let me start by saying that my son (3.5 years old) is a train fan. In all kinds. Therefore, you understand that we were all looking forward to this event. I’ll say right away that we really liked it.
So, in order. A trip to this museum can consist of three parts:
1) the actual visit to the museum (it is open air, the ticket costs mere pennies)
2) trips on an ancient steam locomotive to the Krasny Baltiets station and back with a visit to the ancient depot
3) and a visit to the exhibition complex next to the entrance to the museum at the Rizhsky railway station (there are model trains and, according to rumors, a working model of the railway).
All this takes time from approximately 12.00 to 16.00. We were there on Saturday. The first and third event can be attended by paying for it on the spot, but the locomotive ride must be paid for in advance either at the office of the Retrotrain company that organizes it (this is an office not related to Russian Railways), or at the Millennium Bank terminals.
The whole event - ONLY POSITIVE EMOTIONS: cool trains, a good guide, the child was not bored - when he got tired of listening, he climbed on the trains. My husband listened with his mouth open and forgetting about his fatherly responsibilities. The train ride is also very impressive. Overall, we are delighted.
By the way, there were almost more children our age than adults. And the weather did not disappoint - it was neither cold nor hot - April is the best time to attend such events. In the summer heat, walking for 2 hours is unbearable.
True, my child said that he will still go to the museum, but he will NEVER ride a steam locomotive, because the locomotive makes a very loud noise. This is true. It hums so much that it blocks your ears, and it is much louder than an ordinary train. But it's fun. Still small. In a couple of years it will be requested.
What I didn't like:
1) There were some oddities with paying for tickets for the Retro Train (700 rubles per adult, 500 rubles per child, children under 7 years old are free). I paid 3 days before the trip at the Millennium Bank terminal - I checked in advance with the office that they still had free seats, then I called the office to check whether the payment had been received (the terminal indicates the last name and contact phone number) - they confirmed that everything had been received, come. Moreover, they write on the website that a contact phone number is needed in order to call and warn if something is cancelled. Imagine my surprise when, upon arriving at the Rizhsky station, I received a warning from a nice girl that we were not on the list and we might not get on the train today. Then we will be offered to come next time. Of course, we got on the train. They made their faces with bricks. But there were nerves. It became scary to think how I would explain this to a small child who had been waiting for a trip for a week... I immediately remembered the scoop. In general, I advise you to pay for this trip directly at the Retropezd office - it will be more accurate. And then check a couple of times if everything is okay. Otherwise, I saw the face of the boy who, together with his mother, did not get on this train. He was about 13 years old and he was roaring.
2) The exhibition complex opposite was closed for technical reasons - we were not able to see the model railway.
Hopefully we will get to this exhibition complex in the near future and take a look at the museum again.
It's done! On July 1, 2012, we finally reached the exhibition complex. It consists of one large room, where a huge working model of the railway is presented and some exhibitions along the walls of the room (model trains, driver's simulator cabin, etc.). The child was delighted - he ran around the model following the moving trains... for about forty minutes... In general, it’s just the thing for boys.
The Russian Railways Museum is located on two sites: this and a pavilion near Paveletsky. Here we will talk about the museum on Paveletskaya.
Museum exhibits
The main vehicle of the exposition is an ancient steam locomotive of the U 127 brand, which is officially listed among the technical monuments of the Russian Federation. The locomotive is amazingly preserved, as it was specially preserved for several decades. In 1924, Lenin’s body was brought to the Paveletsky station on it. After the Second World War, a pavilion was built called “Funeral Train” - it was a branch of the Lenin Museum. In 2011, the Moscow Railway Museum was founded on this site. Its museum collection has been expanded with all sorts of historical exhibits and interactive screens on which you can clearly see how steam locomotives work.
The oldest exhibit is more than a century old - the OV-841 steam locomotive. The entire historical exhibition occupies more than 2 thousand m2, it is formed in chronological order according to the stages of development of the industry. Today there are more than sixty exhibits. There are both domestic transport and military trophies, special equipment, carriages of different years and an amazing experimental electric locomotive made in Kolomna. This wonderful transport is unique in that it runs on alternating current.
In museum halls
The Museum of Railway Transport on Paveletskaya has collected a lot of materials that are dedicated to the people who developed this business in Russia. The materials tell not only about the organizers of the case, but also about engineers, innovators in this field, and masters of railway specialties. There are interesting documents and unique drawings, ancient rails branded by the first manufacturers, and uniforms of railway workers of yesteryear. In one of the display cases, a copy of a newspaper for railway workers called “Gudok” dated May 9, 1945 is kept in a place of honor. The newspaper published the Act of Surrender of Germany.
On the lower floor of the railway museum on Paveletskaya you can visit an installed compartment from Nicholas times and the office of the station manager of those years. Train interiors and station layouts are of interest to people with a technical bent of thought, connoisseurs with good aesthetic taste, and simply anyone who is curious.
The exhibits stored on Paveletskaya tell not only about antiquity, but also about the features of modern highways. The railway workers were able to harmoniously combine the strict classical style of the museum exhibition with a fascinating, almost artistic in its presentation, journey into the railway past and future.
In terms of the length of railway electric mains, the Russian Federation ranks first in the world, and in terms of the length of the railway tracks themselves, it ranks second after the United States. By visiting the museum of railway transport on Paveletskaya you will be able to appreciate the role of Russian railway workers in the development of the country from the 19th century to the present day.
The Central Railway Museum is one of the oldest technical museums in the world. It was founded in 1813 as a “special room” for storing models at the Institute of the Corps of Railway Engineers. Active replenishment of the collection began with the development of railway transport in Western Europe and America. In 1859, a special decree was issued, according to which all institutions involved in construction in Russia were required to send to the institute models and drawings of constructed structures: transport facilities, bridges, administrative buildings, monuments and cathedrals. In 1862 the museum opened to the public. In 1901-1902, a new building was built for him in the Yusupov Garden. The museum survived the revolution, but almost died from mismanagement in the early 1930s. During the war, his collections were evacuated to Novosibirsk.
Currently, the museum's holdings include more than 60 thousand items: albums, drawings, photographs, books, more than 300 models of locomotives and carriages. 11 halls are filled with static and dynamic models and layouts. Despite this, the museum remains little known; only a few tourists coming to St. Petersburg know about its existence.
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1. On the main staircase, visitors are greeted by a huge map of the USSR railways. 
2. Below it are compact dioramas showing the evolution of passenger and freight stations. 
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6. The first hall is dedicated to the origins of railways in the world and in the Russian Empire. In the center is a bust of Franz Gerstner, who built the Tsarskoye Selo railway. 
7. The hall displays models of the first steam locomotives of the Tsarskoye Selo Railway. 
8. The first domestic railway tickets. 
9. Telegraph line of the Nikolaev railway. 
10. The second hall is dedicated to bridge construction. 
11. Models of a wide variety of bridge structures are presented here. 
12. Working model of the Volkhov lifting bridge. 
13. Model of the Krasnoluzhsky Bridge on the Moscow Railway. 
14. Now this bridge has been moved to a new location and turned into a pedestrian bridge. 
15. Section of larch cut down during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. 
16. In the third hall you can see models of carriages and steam locomotives from tsarist times, as well as authentic samples of the first communication devices in Russia. 
17. Model of a water tower on a hyperboloid base. 
18. First, mechanical automation of switches and semaphores. 
19. Models are made in different scales and in different materials. 
20. Steam locomotive type 1-2-0, built at the Kolomna plant at the end of the 19th century. 
21. Model of steam locomotive “C”, produced in 1911. 
22. Commodity locomotive type 0-3-0+0-3-0 brand F N (Ferlie). They were built in 1879 by the Siegl plant in Vienna. 
23. Section of a freight locomotive, made in the Moscow workshops of the Moscow-Brest Railway. 
24. Unique, entirely wooden model. 
25. This is a 1-2-0 type passenger locomotive. 
26. The model is made perfectly! 
27. Models of passenger cars of the Trans-Siberian Express. 
28. Compartment carriage. 
29. Dining car (more precisely, lounge car). 
30. Suburban train. These carriages did not have a heating system. Passengers were either given blankets or hot bricks were placed under the seat, which after cooling could be replaced, but for an additional fee. 
31. Third class carriage, with wooden shelves. Interestingly, the upper shelves were folded out and joined into one. Three or four settlers climbed onto them and lay down together with the livestock being transported. It was warmer that way. 
32. Something similar happened in the 3rd class carriage of the North Caucasus Railways in 1890-1900. 
33. Two-axle car for transporting live fish. 
34. Several communication and automation devices. 
35. Yuza letter-printing telegraph apparatus with a weight drive from Siemens and Halske, St. Petersburg, 1870-1880s. 
36. Several exhibits come from the 20th century. 
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38. Small hall No. 5 is dedicated to the war. 
39. German track destroyer of the “hook” system. During the war, 65 thousand kilometers of railway tracks, more than 13 thousand artificial structures, and more than 4 thousand stations were destroyed. New lines were laid at a speed of 16 km per day. 115 thousand kilometers of railways were restored (some roads were restored two or three times). 
40. The sixth hall is dedicated to the construction of railways and track construction machines. 
41. Types of railway embankments and excavations. 
42. Fragments of the canvas demonstrating the fastening of the rails and the design of the joints. 
43. I have always been fascinated by the sight of such intersections. It’s as if the paths are collected in a bouquet. 
44. Ancient devices that railway workers used to check the rails. Profilograph. 
45. Rolling template for measuring track width and rail elevation. 
46. Types of columns and signs. 
47. The exposition of the hall was mainly created in the 1960-1970s, so one of the walls is occupied by a poster with a picture of BAM. 
48. Model of the track-laying crane UK25/21 of the V.I. Platonov. 
49. How much work went into creating these layouts! 
50. Much of this was done by the hands of engineering students. 
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53. Model of ballasting machine B-5. 
54. The car was awarded the 1st Grand Prix prize at the World Exhibition in Paris. 
55. It was created in 1938 by designers V.A. Aleshin, F.D. Barykin and P.G. Belogortsev. 
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58. Model of track self-propelled rail welding machine PRSM-3. 
59. Electric rotary snow blower ESO-3 (BRS). 
60. Hall No. 8 displays an extensive collection of carriage models. 
61. Eight-axle tank model 15-880 for transportation of light petroleum products (gasoline, etc.). 
62. Ice car. 
63. Refrigerator. 
64. Twenty-axle (!) conveyor. 
65. Thematic paintings hang on the walls of the halls. 
66. Model demonstrating the principle of operation of the locomotive L. 
67. The pride of the museum is the collection of locomotives in hall No. 7. 
68. Models of the most common and interesting locomotives are presented here. 
69. Two-section freight diesel locomotive of the 2TE10L series. 
70. Inside the cabin. 
71. Shunting diesel locomotive TGM3-012. 
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73. Shunting diesel locomotive TEM2-003. 
74. One of the world's first mainline diesel locomotives - G E 1 engineer Ya.M. Gakkel. 
75. Two-section gas turbine locomotive GT101-001. 
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77. Diesel locomotive TE10. 
78. Two-section electric freight locomotive VL80-001. 
79. Two-section electric freight locomotive VL85-005. 
80. Electric train ER10-001. 
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83. Also in the hall there is an automatic stand telling about children's railways in the USSR. 
84. In the “car building” hall, in addition to the already mentioned cars, models of never-implemented projects are presented. For example, the air train of engineer S.S. Waldner and the ball train of engineer N.G. Yarmolchuk 
85. Also in the hall is a model of a section of a soft 16-seater car 15sb from the Egorovsky plant. He was exhibited at the All-Union Industrial Exhibition and received a 1st degree diploma. 
86. The model served to test the design of a luxury coupe and was made in the early 1950s, before the serial production of these cars. Behind the door on the left there is a toilet and shower. 
87. Model of an experimental two-story carriage with a dome for viewing the area. Built by the Leningrad plant named after Egorov in 1965. 
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90. This could be the new Moscow-St. Petersburg highway, but we took the simplest route, using the old Nikolaev highway. 
91. Finally, the most interesting exhibits of the museum. The current layout of the hump was created in 1935, at the same time as the first hump in the USSR. 
92. The prototype of the layout was the Krasny Liman station of the Donetsk railway. with the first mechanized slide in the country, put into operation in 1934. 
93. The operation of the slide is controlled by a guide. 
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You can see how it works live in the video:
95. Next to the model you can see an authentic route hump storage facility that operated at the hump from the 1940s to the 1960s. 
96. And here is a model of devices that slow down cars when going down a hill. 
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98. One of the few modern exhibits of the museum is this huge map donated by Russian Railways. 
99. The entire last room is occupied by one exhibit - a model of an electrified section of the railway. It demonstrates the operation of automation that regulates train movement. 
100. The layout is controlled by genuine remote controls. 
101. Here are the consoles of DC (dispatcher centralization), MRC (route-relay centralization), EC (electrical centralization) and MKU (route-key control). 
102. According to the model, following the instructions of the automation, a three-car electric train ER2 on a scale of 1:50 can travel. 
103. The length of the layout path is 43 meters. 
104. There are four stations on it. 
105. The model was created in the 1930s, but still works and is shown on every excursion. 
107. Finally, it is worth mentioning that there is a small outdoor exhibition in the courtyard, but visitors usually do not come here. 
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