The Railway Museum at Campio Marzio Station, Trieste

Clive Hepwrth writes of a visit on 9th May 2015 to a museum which deserves to be better known but has fallen on hard times (see Stefan Paolini's notes). Since Stefano's wrote his contribution in 2008, it seems that the two 'best' locomotives have left (728.022 and 740.108) and been replaced by 740.095 and 895.231. The website for the museum is http://www.museoferroviariotrieste.it/.(Link broken by December 2023. RD) While in the city don't forget to visit the tram / funicular to Opicina - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste%E2%80%93Opicina_tramway. 

The Trieste Museum seems to be open only Wed/Sat/Sun 0900-1300 and is housed in the formerly splendid but now roofless Campo Marzio station (readily located on Google Maps). Locomotives are lined up along the old platforms in various states of appearance. 5 prewar wooden Trieste trams, 1 funicular tram loco,3 diesel shunters, 3 early Italian electric locos, a Fiat EMU set, a 2WW German railway scout car, a variety of wagons and coaches are present together with the 8 steam locomotives shown and identified below. None of the steam locos kept here is operational.

The former station rooms/offices and station concourse are used to house a variety of railway equipment, plates, models etc. The operation of the museum seems to depend on a small number of volunteers. None of the model layouts were operating during my visit. The site seems increasingly isolated from the main national network now that the adjoining freight yard has been closed.

Campo Marzio Station and 0-6-0T 835.231 built in Naples by Officine Milano in 1911.

2-6-2T 229.170 Krauss 7112/1916. Worked on Austrian Imperial Royal State Railway before being passed to Yugoslavia in 1947.

0-8-0T 895.115 Breda Milan 1395/1913

Withdrawn in 1976 2-6-0 640.064 Breda Milan 1142/1908.

2-6-2 683.015 Officine Budapest 4491/1918 ex Hungarian State Railway. 

2-8-0 740-095.built by Ansaldo in 1913

0-10-0 476.073 WnNSD 5036/1911.

2-10-0 ex DRG 52.4752, a 1943-built Kriegslok that became JDZ 33.107.