I. Museum History

A Century of Heritage, Witnessing the Path to a Transportation Power

The history of the Beijing Jiaotong University Transportation Science Museum can be traced back to the Transportation Museum established in 1928. In 1951, the Railway Exhibition Hall was built at the current site to house exhibits from the National Railway Exhibition. In 1978, it was renamed the Transportation Equipment Teaching Museum, gradually evolving into a distinctive venue focusing on railway transportation equipment and covering the comprehensive transportation field. From the early Transportation Museum to today's Transportation Science Museum, it has witnessed the development of China's railways from scratch and from weakness to strength, carrying the dream and pursuit of building China into a transportation power.

II. Museum Introduction

A Comprehensive Venue, An Important Base for Popular Science Education

The Beijing Jiaotong University Transportation Science Museum is a comprehensive venue integrating teaching, popular science, and scientific research display. It consists of three parts: the main Transportation Equipment Teaching Hall, the National Demonstration Center for Experimental Teaching in Transportation, and the National Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center for Transportation. The main hall covers an area of 3,500 square meters and features seven exhibition halls, including the Preface Hall, Locomotive Hall, Rolling Stock Hall, Signaling Hall, Permanent Way Hall, Sand Table Hall, and Future Hall. The museum houses over a thousand physical objects, models, pictures, video materials, operable communication and signaling equipment, and a comprehensive transportation simulation sand table, showcasing the development history of China's railways in an all-round way.

III. Exhibition Hall Overview

1. Preface Hall

The Preface Hall, themed "The Role of Jiaotong University in Chinese Modernization," showcases the development history of China's railways and the concept of building a transportation power. The museum's treasured exhibits, the "Century-Old Steel Rail" and the model of the "Mallet Steam Locomotive," bear witness to China's railway development. A specially designed retro corner recreates the teaching scene from the early days of the university's founding, and a timeline presents major events in railway development.

2. Locomotive Hall

The Locomotive Hall displays the evolution of train locomotives from steam, to diesel, and then to electric power. Key exhibits include models of the vertical boiler locomotive, Qianjin-type steam locomotive, Dongfanghong 1 diesel locomotive, Shaoshan-type electric locomotive, and the "Fuxing" EMU model, reflecting the continuous advancement of China's railway locomotive technology.

3. Permanent Way Hall

The Permanent Way Hall introduces the composition and function of railway permanent ways. It showcases the characteristics and applications of ballasted and ballastless tracks, the structure and function of turnouts, as well as subgrade, bridges, tunnels, and other below-track structures, highlighting the complexity and importance of railway lines.

4. Rolling Stock Hall

The Rolling Stock Hall displays the structure and types of railway vehicles. It introduces the characteristics and uses of freight cars, passenger cars, and special-purpose cars, showcasing some vehicle models, reflecting the diversity and professionalism of railway rolling stock.

5. Signaling Hall

The Signaling Hall showcases the development of railway signaling systems. It focuses on introducing basic signaling equipment, block equipment, and interlocking equipment, displaying semaphore signals, color-light signals, train staffs, token machines, semi-automatic block equipment, automatic block equipment, and electric interlocking equipment, highlighting the crucial role of railway signaling systems in ensuring train safety.

6. Sand Table Hall

The Sand Table Hall features a large-scale transportation sand table simulation model, 50 meters long and 2.5 meters wide. It covers railway facilities and operations such as marshalling yards, district stations, passenger stations, passing loops, overtaking stations, and high-speed railway stations, as well as comprehensive transportation elements like highways, urban rail, and ports. Combining models with controllable physical objects, it visually demonstrates the composition and operational principles of transportation systems.

7. Future Hall

The Future Transportation Technology Hall combines industry frontiers to showcase new trends in future railway development. It introduces smart railways that reshape new models of train operation organization, green railways that drive new modes of zero-carbon transport, super railways that define a new era of train speed, human-centric railways that open new dimensions of transport service, and innovative railways that empower new drivers for high-quality development.

Museum Information

• Address: Inside the Beijing Jiaotong University campus, No. 3 Shangyuancun, Haidian District, Beijing

• WeChat Official Account: Beijing Jiaotong University Transportation Science Museum