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The Rail Museum, Cairo, Egypt
by Seif Kamel
 Trains
are a major means of transportation, and why not learn a little about them while
waiting to board one at the Cairo train station. Many of us use trains every
now and then to go from one place to another. Some people use the metro everyday
to go to work in Egypt, and that is itself a modern train system. Haven’t you
ever wondered, while traveling by a train, who invented this complicated machine,
where did the idea of the train come from, and what did the first train look
like? You can find the answers to all these questions and more in the railway
museum in Cairo.
Located at the far right hand side of Misr Railway station in Ramsis Square,
lies the Railway Museum. There is a vast difference between the atmosphere
surrounding the museum and the world inside it. Noises of cars, trains, and
people shouting are clearly heard outside. This is because Ramsis is considered
one of the most crowded areas in Cairo.
However, inside the museum everything seems calm and quite as if we are still
living in the good old days. Even the employees working there seem as if they
belong to the past century.
The Railway Museum was founded in 1933. It was finished on the 26th of October,
1932 and first opened on the 15th of January, 1933. It was originally built to
celebrate the international railway conference which was held in that same year
in Cairo. This allowed the
conference members to experience the first railway museum in the Middle East.
The museum contains more than seven hundred pieces of models in addition to a
collection of statistical documents and maps that demonstrate the development of
transportation through the last decades. Therefore, the Railway Museum is
considered the most important institute to collect information about
transportation in the Middle East.
The History of Railway
James Watt's invention of the steam engine in the seventeenth century was the
major motive for scientists to think of inventing a machine to enhance
transportation means. William Murdoch was the first to invent a pioneer train
wagon in England in 1784. After this attempt, many scientists tried to invent
useful trains. One of them was Richard Nerfietik, who tried in 1814 to build the
first railway route in history in the south of Wales, but the rails were not
strong enough to hold his wagon "Catch Me If You Can” and they broke down. In
1825, George Stephenson was able to use his wagon “locomotion” to transport
passengers from Seketon to Lingenton in England. The attempt was so successful
that it encouraged the owners of the train to build another route from Liverpool
to Manchester. This was truly the first railway ever invented. After its success
in England, other countries all over the world started building trains and
routes. The United States built its first railway in 1830 and other European
countries started building their routes in 1832.
Railways in Egypt
The first railway built in Africa was in Egypt in 1853. The idea of building a
railway goes back to 1833 when Mohamed Ali consulted his Scottish chief
Engineer, T. Gallway, about building a route between Suez and Ain Shames to
become the link between Europe and India. Mohamed Ali started initiating the
project as he bought the rails in order to start building the route and the
stations. However, France was able to prevent this from happening because the
French government wanted to substitute this project with building a canal
between the Red and the Mediterranean Seas. Mohamed Ali found himself shattered
between the two ideas, so he refused to carry out any of them.
When Mohamed Ali died in 1849, England wrote to his successor, Abass Helmy I,
asking him to build a railway in Egypt. He agreed and he signed a contract with
Robert Stephenson, on the 12th of June, 1851. The contract asserted that the
work should start in September of the same year and that Stephenson should be
responsible for all the matters of the project.
The first railway route in Egypt was built in 1854, between
Alexandria and Kafer Eassa,
and it reached Cairo in 1856. In
1858, the route between Cairo and Suez was built, but it was taken off in the
year 1878 after digging the Suez
Canal. A new route was built in 1867 to connect Cairo with southern Egypt
and Imbaba Bridge was built in 1891 to enable the trains to pass over the Nile
near Cairo. And from this point on, the railway has become one of the most
important means of transportation in Egypt. You can use the railway to go as far
as Matrouh in the west
and as far as Aswan in the north. Passengers can depend on the railway service
to travel all over Egypt.
The museum mainly consists of five sections
Transportation before steam engines section: This section demonstrates the
evolution of transportation from the period of the pharaohs until the invention
of steam engines. It has interesting models of the ancient boats that the
pharaohs used. This is besides other models and pictures of wooden horse wagons
that the pharaohs used in transportation and in the army as well. Ancient
gadgets that were vital for the pharaohs are also displayed to show how
civilized these people were.
The trains section: The second section is the train section, which is considered
the most important in the museum. It shows the development of trains from the
first ever built wagon till the modern trains that we use in the present time.
The stations sections: Includes many models of train stations all over Egypt.
The bridges section: It contains models of all railway bridges all over Egypt.
Pictures on the walls demonstrate the notion of the bridge and how men thought
of it. The story says that there was a monkey who twisted his leg and wasn’t
able to pass the river to go and eat from a tree. Each monkey held the legs of
the other monkey in his hands and they all together constructed a bridge. The
wounded monkey was able to pass the river moving on the bodies of his friends.
When men saw this happening, they started to think of building bridges in order
to help them pass rivers and seas.
The airplane section: This section gives a brief history of the development of
airplanes from Wright till the present day. The section contains information
about the airplane motors as well.
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German Henchel Train
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