The Railway Museum at Mysore, India

India

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 is an outdoor exhibit of vintage locomotives.

The Railway Museum was established in 1979 by Indian Railways, the second such museum after the National Railway Museum in Delhi

Delhi

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. The museum is opposite the Central Food Technology and Research Institute on Krishnaraja Sagar Road. It has locomotives and a gallery of photographs and paintings depicting the growth of railways in India. Railway signals and lights are also displayed. The museum has a battery-operated mini-train giving a short ride for children on the grounds.

Exhibits

• ES 506 4-6-2 is the first locomotive at the entrance.
• An Austin
  Austin Motor Company
  The Austin Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles. The company was founded in 1905 and merged in 1952 into the British Motor Corporation Ltd. The marque Austin was used until 1987...
  
   rail-motor car
• Several inspection cars, one inspection car is used as a ticket office.
• Two royal coaches that belonged to the Maharaja
  Maharaja
  Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...
  
   of Mysore.
• The Maharani Saloon carriage that has a kitchen, dining car unit and royal toilet dating back to 1899.
• A W.G. Bagnall
  W.G. Bagnall
  W. G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England. It was founded in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall and ceased trading in 1962 when it was taken over by English Electric Co Ltd. The company was located at the Castle Engine Works, in Castle Town, Stafford...
  
   #1625 which was made in 1900 for Khushalgarh - Kohat - Thal Railway which was a military frontier line, was subsequently transferred to North Western Railway
  North Western Railway
  The North Western Railway is one of the sixteen railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Jaipur. It comprises four divisions: Jodhpur and reorganized Bikaner division of the erstwhile Northern Railway and reorganized Jaipur and Ajmer divisions of the erstwhile Western Railway. This zone...
  
  s. It operated at Timber Depot in Marala
  Marala
  Marala, also known as Murala, is town in Gujrat District of Punjab province, Pakistan. It is located at 32°38'60N 74°30'0E and has an altitude of 234 metres.-External links:...
  
   and was transferred later to Dhilwan
  Dhilwan
  Dhilwan is a town and a nagar panchayat in Kapurthala district in the state of Punjab, India.-Geography:Dhilwan is located at in Punjab. It has an average elevation of 219 metres .-Dhilwan Kalan:...
  
   Creosoting plant. This 2'-6" gauge
  Rail gauge
  Track gauge or rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a standard gauge of . Wider gauges are called broad gauge; smaller gauges, narrow gauge. Break-of-gauge refers...
  
   locomotive is configured as 2-4-2ST.
• Class E #37244 4-4-4T from SIR
  Surrey Iron Railway
  The Surrey Iron Railway was a horse drawn plateway whose width approximated to a standard gauge railway that linked the former Surrey towns of Wandsworth and Croydon via Mitcham...
  
   built by North British Locomotive Co. in 1920. Originally # 8, it was one of the three superheated locomotives.
• Class TS/1 #37338 2-6-2T from SR
  Southern Railway (Great Britain)
  The Southern Railway was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent...
  
  , made by W.G. Bagnall in 1932 for Mysore State Railways.
• A YP #2511 made by Telco in 1963.

Austin Railway Car

The picture at left is a 1925 model Austin, originally an automobile made for running on road. It was later sold to scrap dealer. A railway employee brought this car from scrap dealer and restored it. However, he made few major change to the car. He fitted rail wheels to the car and removed the steering. Thus began its journey as railcar. It was used for carrying inspection officials on track. It could carry six people. It is the only one of its kind in world still in running condition.

YP 2511

YP2511 was built by Telco in 1963. It is a meter gauge steam engine. The plate containing YP 2511 boiler's details mentions that the boiler was built in 1957. The boiler was numbered 2352.

wagnell119-ER

This narrow gauge steam engine was built by WG Wagnall and Co., Ltd in 1900. This engine was numbered NWR NG tank loco no: 119 E. It was used between Bangalore and Tumkur. This steam engine used wood instead of coal.