The number of displayed items in the museum reaches to 300 and includes rail equipment, old carriages and the first steam locomotive in Iran. The holly city of Mashhad is the provincial captial of Khorasan Razavi province.
Soundbite/Farsi:
Mohammad Hadi Ziaie-Mehr,Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Railways(RAJA) in Khorasan Razavi Province:
"The efforts of my colleagues from Khorasan Province, with the support of Islamic Republic of Iran Railways(RAJA), were focused on setting up the first railway museum of Iran in the holly city of Mashhad".
Soundbite/Farsi:
Mohammad Hadi Ziaie-Mehr,Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Railways(RAJA) in Khorasan Razavi Province:
" The preparations for creating the museum have been underway for two to three years. With the hard work of my colleagues, the equipment and railway carriages that -you see here in the museum- have been collected from all over the country, The Items have been put on display next to Mashhad Railway station- in the form of a Garden Museum- and some of them were displayed inside the station".
