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Chennai, India

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Rail museum· Tourist attraction

Chennai Rail Museum Reviews | Rating 4.4 out of 5 stars (8 reviews)

Chennai Rail Museum is located in Chennai, India on New Avadi Rd, next to ICF Furnishing Division, Lakshmipuram, Villivakkam. Chennai Rail Museum is rated 4.4 out of 5 in the category rail museum in India.

Address

New Avadi Rd, next to ICF Furnishing Division, Lakshmipuram, Villivakkam

Phone

+91 4426146306

Amenities

Good for kidsToiletsNo restaurant

Accessibility

Wheelchair-accessible car parkWheelchair-accessible entranceWheelchair-accessible toilet

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Kiran Bajad

Visited the museum with family, and had great time! Highly under-rated place but deserve appreciation for putting everything together. A must visit for railway history buffs. A lot of historically vital data on Indian railways and southern railway at the museum. You would learn a lot along with nice historical train models at display. Young children would love the experience of watching the trains up and close. Extremely well maintained and clean place. Nice job and Kudos Indian Railways! Well Done!

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John Prakash

A great place to view all the old models of train made by southern railways. Well maintained. There is a toy train ride which kids will love for sure. Museum is full of information's about the trains made and year by year progress of southern railways. You can get complete information about the starting and progress of ICF.

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Karthikeyan Jayachandran

The museum is open on all days including Saturday and Sunday. It is closed on Mondays and Central government holidays. The entry fee is Rs.50 which includes a free toy train trip and Rs 10 worth of snacks in the canteen. Working hours is 10am to 5 pm. Museum is divided into history, art gallery, locomotives and carriages section. A theatre is also available which screens a 20 minutes documentary film about ICF history. The show timings are 12 noon and 3 pm and operates on Saturday and Sunday. It takes less than 2 hours to see the museum unless you spend more time in reading and understanding all the information given. Car parking space is available

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Shravanthy Sarathy

Interesting place. Neatly maintained, greenery all around. Different types of train model are on display. Kids will have a good time climbing up and down. The art gallery and museum displays historical events. There is a small play area also for kids. Quality 3 hrs with family. Appreciate Indian Railway and TN govt for museum on railway theme and neat maintenance.

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Radhakrishna Sharma

What a beautiful place. Entry is free, but if you want the quaint train ride and the coach museum then ticket prices are 50. Do give the steam engines a good look over.

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Fawas Ibrahim

The Chennai Rail Museum is a railway museum in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The museum opened on 16 April 2002 in the Furnishing Division of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) near Perambur . The 6.25-acre (2.53 ha) museum has technical and heritage exhibits, with a sizable collection of steam engines from the British Raj. It also has vintage coaches (such as Ooty trains), which were endemic on Indian railways. Most of the older models were manufactured by the North British Locomotive Company,with some trains in the collection dating back more than a century.Toy-train rides are available. There are 3 air-conditioned Indoor Galleries (ICF Gallery, Rail History Gallery, Art Gallery, 2 Other Non-airconditioned Galleries, a 90-seater air-conditioned Dolby Digital Movie Theatre (Railway and Railway Heritage Films), Natyarangam, Amphitheatre, a Number of Metal Sculptures made from scrap, 3D MURAL at the entrance, Cartoon Hero Characters better viewed from the Joyous Toy Train Ride, Rail Coach Restaurant, Eco Green Park, Lust Green vegetation, etc., The museum is managed and maintained by the ICF.

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Virtuous India Travelogue7

Travel with #VirtuousIndiaTravelogue7 The Chennai Rail Museum is a railway museum in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The museum opened on 16 April 2002 in the Furnishing Division of the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) near Perambur . The 6.25-acre museum has technical and heritage exhibits, with a sizable collection of steam engines from the British Raj. It also has vintage coaches (such as Ooty trains), which were endemic on Indian railways. Most of the older models were manufactured by the North British Locomotive Company, with some trains in the collection dating back more than a century. Toy-train rides are available, and a renovated indoor art gallery is open to the public. The museum is managed and maintained by the ICF. It is located in Perambur area, which is renowned for its Integral Coach Factory. 71 series buses connects Rail museum to prominent places like Broadway, Chennai Central, Chennai Egmore, Kilpauk, Ambattur and Avadi. #DekhoApnaDesh #IncredibleChennai #IncredibleIndia

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Govind Venkat

All my grand daughters from Bangalore never like to miss atleast one visit to rail museum every time they come chennai. They just love it's atmosphere. Please keep improving. A request, can you please make the train trip as 3 rounds instead of 2? Or whenever the place is not crowded, can consider allowing two trips in train ride at least for the children alone. Please consider

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