Railway Museum (Madrid)

Railway Museum (Madrid)

The Museo del Ferrocarril (Railway Museum) in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest historic railroad collections in Europe. Located in the Las Delicias Station, just south of Atocha in the barrio of Delicias, it was built in 1880 by Gustave Eiffel.

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