New Delhi - Rail Transport Museum

The Rail Transport Museum in New Delhi houses 30 locomotives and several old carriages. Over 140 years if Indian railway history has been preserved including an engine built in 1885 and the Fairy Queen steam engine of 1855.

There are several odd items on display at the Rail Transport Museum such as saloon cars of many Maharajas, the teak carriage of the Maharaja of Mysore covered with ivory, the cabin of the Prince of Wales from 1876, and the carriage in which the ashes of Gandhiji were carried in 1948. The skull of an elephant that struck a Mail train in 1894 is also displayed.

Children can enjoy a ride on the miniature toy train.