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Poster of the museum. The Cité du Train (English: City of the Train or Train City), situated in Mulhouse, France, is one of the ten largest railway museums in the world.It is the successor to the Musée Français du Chemin de Fer (French National Railway Museum), the organisation responsible for the conservation of major historical SNCF railway equipment.
Delivered in 1949, it was retired from service in 1961. It has since been restored and is now preserved at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse, where it is fired up every 20–30 minutes in a display showing how connecting rods work to propel the locomotive. [1] [2]
140.A.259 displayed on its side at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse. Only 140.A.259 has been preserved, without its tender; it is in the collection of the Cité du train in Mulhouse. It is displayed on its side to evoke the acts of sabotage performed by railwaymen at the time of the Resistance. [6]
Sectioned for Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Paris 1937; static display, Cité du train, Mulhouse [36] 4.319: 4.061–4.340:
Crampton locomotives. 80 Le Continent preserved at Cité du train. [2] ... Ex CF Montereau–Troyes No. 5 Sézanne; static display, Cité du train, Mulhouse. 32031: ...
The Cité du Train and the Musée Electropolis, two internationally renowned museums, are located in the north of the district. The former is Europe's largest railway museum, [15] while the latter is Europe's largest museum of the history of electricity and household appliances.
Mulhouse is a commune with a population of 108,312 in 2019. [5] This commune is part of an urban unit also named Mulhouse with 247,065 inhabitants in 2018. [3]Additionally Mulhouse commune is the principal commune of the 39 communes which make up the communauté d'agglomération of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (m2A, population 280,000 in 2020).
They work with former SNCF Rio carriages for Regiotrans. [4] Unfortunately, 25536 caught fire on 5 December 2017 at Cața station whilst hauling a freight train. Services worked are: Brașov - Bucharest; Brașov - Bucharest - Constanţa (Summer) The locomotives have been renumbered by adding 400,000 to their SNCF numbers.