Railway Old Object Exhibition Hall opens
2024-12-25
The exhibition hall covers an area of 22 square meters. The exhibits are divided into railway employees’ work and daily necessities, people’s lives and railways, and souvenirs of important railway events.
Entering the exhibition hall, two models dressed in male and female railway uniforms are displayed in the center, showcasing the 2019 railway uniform and high-speed train attendant uniform.
In the exhibition area of railway employees’ work and daily necessities, nearly a hundred old objects are neatly arranged, including large caps, work bags of conductors, running conductor toolboxes, various railway signal lights and flags from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s, railway communication devices used since the 1940s, special inspection hammers and flashlights used by drivers, passengers, and train inspectors, as well as photos of railway workers wearing and using equipment and tools from different eras.
In the exhibition area of people’s life and railways, there are more than 10 train timetables over the years and various old objects used by ordinary people to take trains, such as over a hundred old train tickets and platform tickets from the 1950s to the present. Among them, there are train tickets for the first day of the new century, old cardboard card tickets from the 1950s, old train tickets that combine simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and discounted tickets to Shaoshan in the 1970s. There are also hundreds of paper, cardboard, and colorful platform tickets that have been discontinued, including rarer train and platform tickets printed with advertisements in the 1980s and 1990s.
The exhibition hall also houses many souvenirs of major railway events, such as souvenirs issued for the sixth railway speedup, as well as postal first day covers and first day train tickets for the opening of important railway trunk lines like the Qinghai-Xizang Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway, Guangdong-Hainan Railway, Shimen-Changsha Railway, and Guangzhou-Kowloon Through Train.
The exhibition hall also displays over 500 railway themed stamps issued by more than 70 countries and regions around the world over the years, reflecting the 200-year railway development in the world.
Chinese source: xxcb
