Athens Railway Museum in Athens, Attica, Greece | Museum

The Athens Railway Museum in Athens, Aegean Sea, Greece, was founded in 1979 and belongs to the Greek Railways Organization. The aim of Athens Railway Museum is to preserve samples of the technological development of the means of transportation in Greece. Among the Museum's exhibits are included steam locomotives dating from 1884, steam locomotives of mine-trains, wagons of old trains, royal riages and the smoking car of the train of the sultan Abdul Aziz, Athenian tramways of the past decades, hand-and-foot operated draeseners, models and photographic material, instruments, printing implements, tickets, uniforms and mechanics' tools of the 19th century.
Athens Railway Museum, the only one of its kind in Athens, Aegean Sea, Greece, is the result of the initiative and effort of the former Chief Engineer of OSE, Dipl. Eng. Christodoulos Christodoulou.
In the beginning of the 1970?s, he initiated the difficult task to collect, restore and exhibit a wide range of historical railway material which had been left to its fate at various locations. Although he encountered many problems, Christodoulos Christodoulou with the valueable assistance of Mr.Georgios Nikakis achieved a significant result.
Renovation work was carried out in 1996, when the atrium and the yard were covered with tiles. The ground hall of the building, which once housed the OSE Telegraph Operators? School was refurbished into a multiple purpose hall, able to welcome various cultural activities of the Museum.
Today, a surface of 1200 m2 houses a significant part of our railway and tramway history, from the time of Athens-Piraeus Railway and the horse tramways, to OSE and ISAP.