Yunnan Railway Museum
Yunnan Railway Museum is located in the Beijing Road in Kunming. It is built in the waiting room of the north station of Kunming. In 2004, the museum is opened to the public mainly to display the historical development of the Kunming railway. Among all the relics, France's Michelin internal combustion power crew is a national-level cultural relic.
About the Museum
Yunnan Railway Museum covers an area of 3176 square meters, totally collect and display 9500 pieces of photos and literature of historic materials related to the Yunnan-Vietnam railway. Especially the Michelin locomotive and cars and other accessories running on the Yunnan railway passenger car and locomotive is a highlight. They use strong color contrast, the use of sound, light, electricity visual techniques, shows the segment of railway history in one hundred years.
Yunnan railway museum is only a local railway development of our country so far as the content of the unique museum and is also the witness in the history of old China, also is a modern history indelible page of Yunnan.
Built by the French colonialists, Yunnan Kunming the railway to the Hekou section MiGui railway was constructed in 1903 and opened in 1910. Because of its construction hard operating history of grandeur and across time and accumulate rich historical and cultural resources.
What to See
The steam locomotive of a black car is still intact. In 1914, it was the fastest train running on the 1000 mm of Yunnan, although the design speed could reach 100 km/h, the actual speed could only up to ten kilometers per hour. Intact MiGui wooden buses, inch rail passenger cars, and the 10 tons of rail wooden boxcar manufactured by the United States in 1919, a strip of woods were full of the car, both inside and outside in the of primitive simplicity is suddenly let a person feel the train is in wind and rain.
Numerous yellowing of the Yunnan railway profile blueprint is precious geological data. Data on display also told people a little-known fact. At that time the British plans to build a railway from Kunming to Burma. Because western Yunnan was geology complex, engineering investment was huge, the return was iffy, the British finally abandoned building the railway in Yunnan province.
The museum's showroom is open up of the railway station. Kunming train north station waiting room on the second floor covers an area of 3176 square meters. Now Kunming railway to the Hekou has stopped passenger transport, but cargo is still booming. Nearly tens of thousands of historical photos, railway relics, documents in Yunnan railway museum record the railway through the long years of Yunnan. It is the window of the Yunnan railway culture development.
Nearby Attractions
Kunming is known as the Spring City in China and boasts its beautiful scenery. Visitors can take a visit to the Black Dragon Pool, Grand View Garden, and Black Stone Forest(Naigu Shilin) to enjoy the charming sight of Kunming.
Location
Kunming North Railway Station, 913 Beijing Lu, Kunming
How to Get There?
Take Bus 3、23、50、68、K1 from Kunming Railway Station to Kunming North Railway Station.
Ticket Price
- CNY 10 for Adults.
- CNY 5 for children.
Opening Hours
10:00 AM to 16:00 PM, except for Monday.