page_title: Israel Railway Museum
section_title: Some notable exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Israel Railway Museum / Features / Some notable exhibits
caption_attribution_description: English: Israel Railway Museum, Haifa: Salon-coach #98 of Palestine Railways, built in 1922 Deutsch: Israelisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Haifa: Salonwagen Nr. 98 der Palestine Railways (1922)
context_page_description: Israel Railway Museum is the national railway museum of Israel, located in Haifa. The railway museum is owned by Israel Railways and is located at the Haifa East Railway Station which nowadays no longer serves passengers.
context_section_description: Palestine Railways saloon coach No. 98, built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in England in 1922. It provided VIP transport for, among others, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and Sir Winston Churchill.
  Coach No. 4720 was built in Belgium in about 1893 for Egyptian State Railways. In World War I it was converted into an ambulance coach for the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Sinai Military Railway. In the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai it was captured and transferred to Israel Railways who used it on breakdown trains.
  Hejaz Railway tank locomotive. It is a 1,050 mm (3 ft 5 ¹¹⁄₃₂ in) 0-6-0T shunter built by Krauss in Germany in 1902.
  Tender of Palestine Railways P class locomotive No. 62, built in 1935 by the North British Locomotive Company in Scotland. The locomotive was one of a class of six 4-6-0 tender locomotives that hauled main line trains between Haifa and Kantara East on the Suez Canal via Lydda and El Arish. In 1960 all remaining standard gauge steam locomotives in Israel were scrapped after they had been replaced by diesel trains.
  Steam crane no. C-25-1, built in 1918 by Cowans, Sheldon and Company in England for the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers.
  Steam crane no. C-30-1, built in 1950 for Egyptian State Railways and captured during the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai
  EMD G12 1,425 bhp Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive no. 107, built in 1954.
  EMD G16 1,950 bhp Co-Co diesel electric no. 163, built for Egyptian Railways in 1961 (ER fleet no. 3361), captured during the 1967 Israeli invasion of Sinai and transferred by Israel Railways to work on freight lines in the Negev desert.
caption: A compartment inside saloon coach No. 98
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