Friday, August 12, 2011

Rail Museum, New Delhi

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It has been a while since I posted anything related to travel. So I thought I would share with you some pictures taken at the rail museum here in Delhi. This is my son's THE MOST favourite place. This is the only place he wishes to go on an outing and I have really lost count of the number of times we have visited this museum. I can't blame him, even I have started to love these amazing, colourful vintage trains that are parked here in open space.
The best part of this museum is that you can go near the trains, touch them, climb on them and it is so much fun.

There is also an indoor gallery where you can find many models of old trains, signals and other such things.

Some of the maharaja's private carriages have furnitures and statues inside to give us an idea about how the maharajas traveled those days but this is not open to the public. Though we had visited the museum several times we were not aware of this until the last time when we discovered it accidently while trying to peep through the glass windows. 

These photos are not very clear because I clicked them through the glass windows. They were not visible from outside. Some of these shots were taken even without knowing what was inside. The carriages were closed shut and I put the camerea inside through a small opening in the window and took some of these shots. We were really surprised to see that the furnitures and the bed were all in good condition.

This museum is a fun place to visit and we are going to visit it many more times.

7 comments:

  1. interesting museum! I've seen here in Ukraine, like a train museum in the town Krytu, where a bloody battle ... where many young students were killed ... now there's a memorial museum

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  2. Very interesting, beautiful pictures; my father-in-law worked 40 years in train... he would certainly love to visit this museum...
    Have a nice week-end.
    Anna

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  3. This place would be heaven to my son too!

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  4. Lovely! How nice to see places of interest where you live! The trains are really beautiful to look at! I am sure there is a lot of history there!

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  5. My son would absolutely love to visit all those fabulous trains! He would be beyond excited. It looks like you had a great time. What a beautiful blog you have - I am just going to have a good look around now!

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  6. I am so glad to see your son having a good time.. kids have a fascination for rail engines :)Rail museum sure is a fun place, I like it too :)...you have posted very nice pictures. Glad to have found your lovely blog by following a link on Susana's blog... :)

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  7. Hi Pradeepa...first of all thanks a lot for sharing the amazing patter- Granny's ripple!!! its lovely.

    I was i delhi for 8 yrs but never visited rail mesuem but after seeing this pics......nice to see this pics.....will visit mesuem next time.

    Good luck for ur future projects....I am going to come again and again...keep posting.
    Doma

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