The new Russian Railway Museum in St. Petersburg 2017 

There is a further series of pictures from the museum available on this site.

Harvey Smith reports:

On 1st November 2017, the Russian Railway Museum opened at Baltiskiy Station in St. Petersburg. Many of the exhibits were previously at the the Varshavsky Railway Station Museum. However, more have been added to the collection and the museum is under cover and much better presented. This is a world class modern museum, which is at least the equal to any other. The exhibits are well presented, in good condition, and full explanations are provided in both Russian and English. The whole story of railways is explained from Trevithick to the present day. Two HO model railways are also present. One model railway is of Russia’s first passenger carrying railway - the Tsarskoye Selo Railway and the second of Vladivostok Station. The visitor can learn about the origins of Russia’s railways in mines, the Imperial Russian trains and the construction of both the Tsarskoye Selo Railway and the Moscow to St. Petersburg line.

For those interested in military history the RT-23 Molodets missile launching train and the giant TM-3-12305mm/12inch Railway gun are parked outside amongst the external exhibits.

The museum utilizes the nineteenth century locomotive shed of the Peterhof Railway built in 1857 – 1858, however a large second display building and external display areas have been added. 

To find the museum simply look at the front façade of Baltiski Railway Station and walk down the right (western) side of station. The museum is clearly visible on Google maps coordinates: 59°54'20.6"N 30°17'51.8"E or 59.905750, 30.297753.

The Russian Railways website is:
http://rzd-museum.ru/en.

A YouTube site with a drone’s view of the museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNibfDzMn2k

S017-2286 outside the Russian Railway Museum

b-2023 Russian locomotive. One of the oldest locomotives in Russia, being built in 1897 by Kolomna Works for the Vladikavkaz. It was used until the mid-1980’s in Grozny.

TT-1770 a captured German Trophy. She is a re-gauged Prussian T 93.

A model of the Cherepanov locomotive

A model of 'Provorny' Russia’s first main line passenger locomotive built by Robert Stephenson

S.68 is one of only 2 surviving pre-revolutionary Russian passenger locomotives. Built in Russia, probably in 1917. Designed by B.S. Malakovskii. This locomotive only survived because it was used as a stationary boiler in a factory in Moscow until the 1970s.

The official saloon car of the Chinese Eastern Railway

O^D-1080 nineteenth century freight locomotive

Cutaway locomotive E^R-791-81

Cutaway locomotive E^R-791-81 showing the pit for viewing the underside

Left O^V-6640 Nineteenth century freight locomotive, she was restored to working order in 2017. 8000 of these were built up until the Russian Revolution. This one was built at the Putilov works in St. Petersburg in 1902. During World War II it was used as part of an armoured train. 
Centre L-2298 - 4199 examples built 1945-55. This example was built in honour of the 12th Congress of Young Communist organisation in 1954.
Right LV18-002

SOM17-1137 SO standing for Sergo Ordzhonikidze Georgian Bolshevik, Politburo member and close associate of Stalin

LV18-002 was a development of the L class. It was built at the Voroshilovgradskim Parovozostroitelnym factory in 1953, served on Moskovsko - Ryazanskoy and Northern railways until 1982 and then as a factory boiler.

S^U 253-15 Passenger steam locomotive and development from the class S (see above).

View from First floor Gallery:

Class FD20 Soviet locomotive. This is the most powerful series-built steam freight locomotive in Russia (3200hp). Named after Dzerzhinsky, who founded the Cheka. The introduction of this class marked the transition from European to American practice of designing locomotives in the USSR. Built in 1936.
Fireless locomotive, built by Schwartzkopf in Germany (9305/1928), it worked at the Tuapse oil refinery.

Class Tk3 Finnish locomotive. These were used by the Russians until 1950’s. They came to Russia as reparations. This one was built in Tampere in 1943 and like many Finnish locomotives it is a wood burner.

Ye^L 534 She was built by the American Locomotive Building Company (ALCO) in Schenectady in 1917.

shch-el-1 Russians were pioneers of diesel electric traction and shch-el-1 is Russia’s first diesel electric locomotive. It was completed in 1924 and it may interest some to know that the actual diesel engine was salvaged from a sunken British WW I - era submarine which lay in the Gulf of Finland.

SO17-2413 Built by Krasnoiarsk Works in 1948 to commemorate 30 years anniversary of youth communist organization

E^R-750-04

9P-15387

HO scale model Railway of Vladivostok 

See also:

• The St. Petersburg Outdoor Railway Museum, 2006 

• The St. Petersburg Outdoor Railway Museum, 2013 (updated 30th May 2017)

• A St. Petersburg Railway Miscellany (updated 11th April 2017)

• Moscow Railway Station / St. Petersburg Depot, 2014 

• The Indoor Railway Museum, St. Petersburg, 2014 

• The Shushary Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006 

• Moscow Sort Depot, St. Petersburg, 2014 (updated 2nd February 2015)

• Grand Maket Rossiya / The Grand Model of Russia

• VE Day in St. Petersburg (14th May 2015)

• Moscow Sort Depot, St. Petersburg, 2015-7 (updated 5th November 2017)

• The St. Petersburg Southern Children's Railway (updated 27th June 2016)

• Lebyazhe Railway Museum Depot (16th June 2015)

• The Tsar's Private Railway Station, St.Petersburg (updated 8th August 2017)

• The Shushary Museum, St. Petersburg, 2015 (5th August 2015)

• The Northern St. Petersburg Children's Railway (10th June 2016)

• Russian Railways RetroTrain Trip 2016 (14th June 2016) 

• E^M-721-83 at Petrokrepost (3rd August 2017)

• The Russian Railway Museum, St. Petersburg 2018 (25th October 2018)