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Regional Railway Museum, Chennai

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The Regional Railway Museum is a railway museum in Chennai, India. The museum was founded in 2002 on the premises of the Integral Coach Factory at Perambur, near South Colony near Villivakkam. It is situated near ICF bus terminus and has a host of both technical and heritage exhibits. It has a sizable collection of steam engines belonging to various decades of the British Raj. The museum also exhibits various vintage coaches such as Ooty trains endemic to the Indian railways. Most of the older models were manufactured by the North British Locomotive Company[2] and some of the collection dates back more than one hundred years as it covers the railway history of South India.[3] The museum is maintained by the Integral Coach Factory.

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