It might seem a bit strange to find a simple sailboat in a railway museum that symbolizes modernity and progress, but what is even stranger is that the location of the museum itself, along with the railway station and the… read more

In the town of Devon, overlooking the English Channel, on a March day in the last quarter of the 18th century, Newcomen was trying to install his new machine to help his plumber friend with a difficult task: removing water… read more

In the book “Advice for Travelers by Land,” directed to tourists on their journey from Cairo to Alexandria during the time of Ruler Muhammad Ali, we read: “The traveler may take one of these three paths from Alexandria to Cairo:… read more

One day in April 1882, a railway signal employee was sitting in his booth on the train path between Alexandria and Tanta. His role was to record train movements and operate signals so that no accidents occurred between them if… read more

At the start of a rainy autumn day in late September 1825, residents of a small town in northern England called Stockton were destined for one of the strangest days of their lives. These simple people, coal miners, stood and… read more

In the hall of the Railway Museum, on the ground floor, we will find before us the royal carriage. It is part of a wider family of royal carriages designed distinctively from the opening of the Canal until the middle… read more

“Oh, father of the leaves, oh cane, we have a wedding set up”. Perhaps we have come across this song on one of the pages interested in history and memory in Egypt, because the images in the song tell the… read more

The relationship of kings with the railway was not just a royal vehicle or an important source of income; at one time, it was a central tool for shaping the geography of the homeland and for the ruler to gain… read more

The establishment of railways in Egypt was a turning point in the history of infrastructure and transport in the region. It was an ambitious project that began with a contract signed in the early 1850s between Khedive Abbas I and… read more

From the beginning, work and workers in the railway were a complex matter, ruled by many conflicts and questions of power and resistance. Right from the start, during the construction of the railway and its extension on Egyptian land, the… read more

Just as the railway was modern technology that entered Egypt and facilitated the movement of passengers, crops, and goods between the provinces of the “Mahrousa,” this technology also created new jobs that did not exist before. This led to the… read more

The schedule before us for railway trains and their timings seems like a self-evident and logical thing in all means of transport in the world, but this was not the case for more than a quarter of a century from… read more

Coal, and the steam generated from it, was the energy that ran the railway for more than 150 years until it was replaced by either diesel or electricity. Therefore, obtaining, storing, and using it appropriately was a complex process that… read more

The bridges that trains pass over now might seem like something self-evident in any city on the Nile like Damietta, Mansoura, or Cairo, but this number of bridges was the result of a long journey of trial and error that… read more

But what are the basic rules that the expert engineers overlooked? Perhaps the first and most important rule is the flood and the rise of the Nile level that covers agricultural lands at certain times of the year. this rule… read more

“Oh locomotive, tell me where you’re going… Oh locomotive, tell me where you traveled from… Oh locomotive, tell me… You keep running north and south… You go down a valley, you go up a bridge… Turn once and then go… read more

On one of the spring evenings in March 1854, the British engineer Henry Swinburne was still sitting in his office, even though the workday had ended hours ago. On this evening, which was specifically March 8, Henry was working on… read more

The Egypt Railway Printing House was established as part of the railway system that began in the middle of the 19th century. At first, the printing house existed to meet the needs of operating the railways, such as printing tickets,… read more

As we stand now before this diorama, we will feel as if we have immersed ourselves in the heart of railway history in Egypt; miniature trains glide on intertwined tracks, showcasing for us the journeys of past generations. These miniature… read more

Ramses Station or Bab al-Hadid is located in the heart of Cairo now, and the station and its tracks divide the city into important neighborhoods, like Shobra and Rod al-Farag on one side, and Al-Daher, Al-Ataba, and Downtown on the… read more

King Fuad I had a great desire to collect statistics, exhibits, and photos to create a detailed history reflecting the development that occurred in railways, telegraphs, and telephones in Egypt. In a world full of fast trains and new ideas,… read more