| Railway
Museum
The Railway
Museum at Mysore , the first regional Rail Museum in India is
located on K.R.S road in the heart of the city opposite to the
Central Food Technology Research and Training Institute. Set up in
1979, the Museum boasts of valuable collection of antiquities and
sets a good pattern for regional display.
A circular
gallery called Chamundi Gallery has interesting collections of
photographs, series of paintings showing the development of the
Railways and signaling signs right from its inception.
The
adjacent building named Sri Ranga Pavilion houses two Royal
coaches that formed part of the Royal train of Maharaja of Mysore
reflecting the era of bygone splendour.
This
pavilion incorporates in its construction beautifully carved
wooden pillars, doors and balustrades from the old Srirangapatna
Railway Station.
It is said
that these carved wooden works came from the wooden royal palace
of Mysore , destroyed in a fire accident. The saloon used by the
Maharajas is now at the National Railway Museum at Delhi.
Mysore Rail
Museum has the Maharanis' saloon, kitchen and dining care unit.
The eight wheeler Maharanis' saloon was built at Mysore Railway
workshop in 1899 AD adjustable to both the broad gauge and meter
gauge.
One of the
sections displays various small items relating to the then Mysore
State Railway including the telephone by the late Maharaja of
Mysore, Mysore Station Railways clock made in New York, model of
the longest bridge in Hassan-Mangalore Railway Projects and the
working model of the steam engine.
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