Flåmsbana / Flåm Railway Class EL17 17227 at Flåm, Monday August 06, 2012.
The steepest standard gauge railway in Europe climbs 2,831 feet in 12.6 miles between Flåm and Myrdal - the junction for the Oslo to Bergen main line.
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The Asturias Railway Museum or Gijón Railway museum (Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturias), in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, is dedicated to restoration, preservation and display the railway history of Asturias.
It was opened on October 22, 1998 by the current King Felipe VI of Spain when he was Prince of Asturias. The centre supported by Gijón City Council and is one of the most important Spanish railway museums.
The museum is located at the old Gijón North railway station near Poniente Beach. It occupies more than 14,000 m2 and includes the original station, built in 1874, two new buildings and tracks of various gauges.
There are over 140 items of rolling stock of various gauges including industrial locomotives with the total number of exhibits totalling over 1000.
The Museum has “Steam Days” throughout the year when locomotives are operated. I visited the Museum whilst on a cruise call, and I must say it is very well thought out and had low admission charge – I think it was around €3.00.
I was also pleased to see in a display close to the entrance reference to Richard Trevithick the Cornish Engineer who made steam railway and road locomotives possible. Someone who can be overlooked even by TV historians back here in the UK! Admission prices
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Santa Barbara steam engine, 1907, Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik, Jugenthal, Germany Spain, Gijon, Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturia
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The Asturias Railway Museum or Gijón Railway museum (Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturias), in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, is dedicated to restoration, preservation and display the railway history of Asturias.
It was opened on October 22, 1998 by the current King Felipe VI of Spain when he was Prince of Asturias. The centre supported by Gijón City Council and is one of the most important Spanish railway museums.
The museum is located at the old Gijón North railway station near Poniente Beach. It occupies more than 14,000 m2 and includes the original station, built in 1874, two new buildings and tracks of various gauges.
There are over 140 items of rolling stock of various gauges including industrial locomotives with the total number of exhibits totalling over 1000.
The Museum has “Steam Days” throughout the year when locomotives are operated. I visited the Museum whilst on a cruise call, and I must say it is very well thought out and had low admission charge – I think it was around €3.00.
I was also pleased to see in a display close to the entrance reference to Richard Trevithick the Cornish Engineer who made steam railway and road locomotives possible. Someone who can be overlooked even by TV historians back here in the UK!
For more photographs please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Railway-Museums/Th...
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Flåmsbana photographed on Monday August 06, 2012. Flåmsbana photographed on Monday August 06, 2012.
An up train see from a down train at Berekvam Station the only passing loop on the Flåmsbana. The station is slightly over halfway between Flåm and Myrdal.
Loco 172 is an NSB class El 17 one of a class of twelve electric locomotives built by Thyssen-Henschel and Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB) for the Norwegian State Railways (NSB). The class was built in two batches, the first delivered in 1982 and numbered 2221–2226, and the second delivered in 1987 and numbered 2227–2232. The traction system of the El 17 was based on the DB Class 120 of Germany (BBC, AEG and Siemens) and were among the first in the world to feature three-phase asynchronous motors. The units were ordered to be used on the intercity Bergen, Dovre and Sørland Lines, but were plagued with technical faults (overheating traction equipment, transient voltages, etc.). The unreliability and lack of sufficient power forced NSB to instead use them in the regional Vestfold and Gjøvik Lines. With the delivery of the El 18, the first series was retired or used as shunters. The second series has been used on the Flåm Line since 1998.
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