China Railway Museum

The China Railway Museum is a Chinese museum preserving locomotives that have operated on the railways of the People's Republic of China. The museum offers a total exhibition space of and eight exhibition tracks.
The museum is located in Chaoyang District of Beijing, some northeast of downtown Beijing, inside the circular test track that is part of the. It also has a branch in downtown Beijing, in the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station near Tian'anmen Square.

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History

The China Railway Museum has its origins in the 1950s when the Ministry of Railways created a temporary exhibit for the Economic Achievements Exhibition in Beijing. This exhibition, which was held by the National Economic Development Committee, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
The MOR then founded the Central Technical Library in 1958 to promote scientific and technological advancements and support the growth of the Chinese railway industry. This institution subsequently became the MOR Exhibition Group, then the MOR Exhibition Department, and finally the MOR Science and Technology Museum.
On 2 November 2002, the MOR Science and Technology Museum's locomotive exhibition hall was opened to the public and was officially renamed the China Railway Museum on 1 September 2003.
The museum expanded further in October 2009 when the Beijing Railway Museum was integrated into the China Railway Museum.

Downtown branch

The Beijing Railway Museum was opened in 2008 in a building which includes the clock-tower of the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station of the Jingfeng Railway, just southeast of the Tian'anmen Square. The rest of the building is entirely new-build, dating from the 1979 construction of Beijing Subway Line 4, which required the rest of the old station to be demolished. The historic facade was then reconstructed, in mirror-image, on the opposite side of the clock tower. In October 2009, Beijing Railway Museum was renamed to the Zhengyangmen Branch of the China Railway Museum. This part of the museum contains only one full size historic locomotive - an 0-6-0 tank engine from the 19th century. The rest of the displays comprise models, maps, photographs, documents and displays about the development of railways in China, including architectural models of six new stations on the CRH China Railway High-speed system. Also on display is a CRH3 cab simulator.

Locomotives

No.	Class	Builder	Track Gauge	Wheel Configuration	Image
0004	QJ	Dalian Locomotive Works		2-10-2
23	SN	Baldwin Locomotive Works		0-10-0
1001	RM	CSR Sifang Co Ltd.		4-6-2
1019	GJ	Taiyuan Locomotive Works		0-6-0T
1979	FD	Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Factory		2-10-2
KF1	KF1	Vulcan Foundry		4-8-4
4290	DFH1	CSR Sifang Co Ltd.		B’B’
5001	JS	Dalian Locomotive Works		2-8-2
035	MG1	North British Locomotive Company		2-6-0