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to judge by its success with visitors:
an impeccably restored restaurant-car,
built in 1943 by Astra (Romania) for the
Compagnie des Wagons-Lits and operated
in Denmark between 1946 and 1963.
In striking contrast, a royal car awaiting
renovation testifi es to the extraordinary
amount of work needed to restore it to its
former glory, work which will be patiently
executed by real artists from drawings
and photographs of the period. A random
stroll through this wonderland reveals many
other surprises, starting with the 1/20
scale model of the fi rst locomotive operated
in 1847 on the Copenhagen-Roskilde line,
called Odin, in tribute to Scandinavian
mythology’s most popular god. Close
by, a steam locomotive built in 1868
in Newcastle-on-Tyne by
Robert Stephenson & Co appears to have
just left the factory! To add to the force
of these iron masterpieces, incredibly realistic
wax fi gures literally immerse visitors
in the past.
The Danish Railway
Museum lends a train
for a royal funeral
When Queen Ingrid of Denmark,
mother of the present sovereign
Margrethe II, died in November
2000, the Danish Railway
Museum made available a historic
train pulled by two steam
locomotives (classes E and R)
plus a driver to carry the royal
coffi n from Copenhagen Palace
to Roskilde Cathedral, where
the Queen lies beside
her husband, King Frederik IX
of Denmark.
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An entire room devoted to models
of ferries.
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