Rail Ways Museum

The Railway Museum is the oldest and first railway museum in the Middle East and the second in the world after the York Museum in Britain, and on the occasion of the International Conference of Railways in January 1933, the idea tended to establish this museum and opened to receive visitors on January 15, 1933.

The museum has several sections, including the ground floor, which we stand in now, and it displays the means of traction transportation from the ancient Egyptian civilization to the modern era.

When you enter the museum, you will find the first masterpiece, which is the statue of Thoth-hotep, which is raised on wooden skis dragged by four teams consisting of forty-four men, pulling the ropes from the front and from the back, lifting the levers that help the movement of pulling the statue.

There are also models of the developments of the first locomotives in the world and Egypt and a set of ancient and modern signals that illustrate how trains were directed in the past by human hand and how the mechanism of directing trains in their running to various lines evolved until they became electric.

There is also a maquette for an aircraft showing its seats from the inside (read) with 12 first class seats and 58 economy class seats.

Then go to the corner of lamps of various shapes and sizes from a lamp to illuminate the platforms of the stations to an incandescent lamp and a lamp for semaphore and a lamp for the gate of the level crossing, and a signal lantern that works with electricity from 1875 AD.

There is also a life-size section locomotive for a passenger express locomotive manufactured by North British Lokomotiv in 1906 and its internal parts of feeding devices and air rarefaction devices are shown.

Then the locomotive of Said Pasha, which George Stevenson made for Said Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, to take a walk in it from the Teen Palace to the Montazah Palace in Alexandria and trained him on it to drive it himself.

Then we climb to the second floor, we find in front of us a machine printing tickets station to establish and the arrival station and the price of tickets and also numbering tickets serial numbers and managed by hand, then the Khedive train, which is made Porsche Kabbary in Alexandria of the Egyptian government railways and was used by Khedive Ismail and consists of six wagons and locomotive decorated with beautiful inscriptions, the first carriage, which is the Salon of the officers of the Khedive and the second carriage, which is for princesses.

The third is a special salon for the Khedive, the fourth is a salon for the Khedive family and the fifth is also for the family and the sixth is the salon of the principals

As well as a model of the first locomotive imported to Egypt and written on it that it is one of the six locomotives manufactured by Khawajat Stevenson & Co. at the request of the Egyptian government and was used in 1852 with the first opening of the line.

Then a map showing the moving bridges and fixed Balwojh of the Egyptian government railways, and there is a model of a mobile bridge to rotate on the Nile in Advina established in 1930/1932 on the Rashid branch between Al-Busili and Sidi Ghazi, and a group of books on the history of the establishment of railways in the first stages and a photo album of the first steam locomotives.

Then a group of bridges from Naga Hammadi Bridge to Imbaba Bridge and station models such as Edfu Station, Tanta Station and Saray Al-Qobba Station

Finally, a large moving model of all the bags of the Egyptian railways, a panorama of the railway and made in England for Farghaly Pasha, a cotton merchant from Alexandria who loves to collect antiques and rare antiques, his grandchildren gifted them to the museum.