Railway Museum

Kolkata (Calcutta)


Some 500m south of Howrah train station, the open-air Railway Museum has a two-storey station model, several 19th-century steam locomotives and a toy-train ride (₹10). To get here, walk south of the Howrah train station complex along Foreshore Rd, keeping the Hooghly River to your left.


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