The Museum is an integral part of the Railway Museum in Belgrade. It contains exhibits that originate exclusively from the time when there was a system of narrow gauge railways in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The museum was opened on April 12, 1990, and was founded by Stojan Stamatović (1924—1989), who toured abandoned railways, buildings and waste and diligently collected museum exhibits.
On an area of about 1.5 ha, there are more than 500 original exhibits of a narrow gauge (0.60, 0.75 and 1 m), which represent a part of the historical and technical development of the Serbian,...
The Museum is an integral part of the Railway Museum in Belgrade. It contains exhibits that originate exclusively from the time when there was a system of narrow gauge railways in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The museum was opened on April 12, 1990, and was founded by Stojan Stamatović (1924—1989), who toured abandoned railways, buildings and waste and diligently collected museum exhibits.
On an area of about 1.5 ha, there are more than 500 original exhibits of a narrow gauge (0.60, 0.75 and 1 m), which represent a part of the historical and technical development of the Serbian, but also the railways of the former Yugoslav republics. The museum exhibits 8 steam locomotives, as follows:
Two locomotives for the 0.60m track: "Milan" from 1882 and "Kostolac" from 1916.
Six locomotives for the 0.76m track: "Rama" (1873), 73-002 (with tender from 1907), 82-007 (from 1911), 83-037 (with tender from 1929). ), 83-062 (locomotive of the "Partisan Armored Train from 1941" from 1923/24) and 92-043 (with tender, from 1922).
Dislocated, the exhibits of this museum are also two steam locomotives were transferred to the museum-tourist complex "Sharganska osmica" - steam locomotive "Skoda" series 25-27 and steam locomotive series JDZ / JZ 83/173.
The museum also has 17 carriages: the saloon of Emperor Franz Joseph I from 1897 (for a track of 1.00 m), two passenger cars of the Enk 4200 series and Cls 3597 (for a track of 0.76 m), two official cars of the De 5365 series and De 5613, two open freight cars series Kc 55745 and Kc 701630-prototype, five closed freight cars Gzg 40143, G 40137, Gc 41104, Gc 41731, Gc 41762, two cars "Partisan armored train from 1941" series Gac 41685 and Jc 46570, one boiler tank car series R 84702 and two special auxiliary cars series Ue 83201 (for sleeping) and U 84150 (workshop).
The museum also includes four station tracks with a total length of 645 meters, signalling and safety devices and devices, turntables and car scales, as well as special railway vehicles: snowmobile, pump trolley and three foot trolleys, as well as a snow hatch from the locomotive series JDŽ / JŽ 83-173, trolley with mechanism and cable for cold pulling of locomotives, rail work trolley, mechanism for bending rails and two water feeders.