Museo del Ferrocarril

Puebla


This excellent railway museum with activities for kids is housed in Puebla’s former train station and the spacious grounds surrounding it. There are ancient steam-powered monsters through to relatively recent passenger carriages, many of which you can enter. One carriage contains an excellent collection of photos of various derailments and other disasters that occurred during the 1920s and '30s.


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