Kalamata Municipal Railway Park

Kalamata Municipal Railroad Park is the only outdoor museum in Greece in its kind and is known to all the railroad friends around the world.
It was founded in September 1986, but due to the devastating earthquake that hit the city at the same time its completion was in 1990.
The area chosen to create this open museum – showroom was the old station “Kalamata – Limin”, as well as the neighboring area of ​​OSE SA, which at the time of the steam was a place with carvings.
Kalamata Municipal Railroad Park occupies a total area of ​​54 acres in one of the city’s most central locations. The 24.6 acres were granted by OSE SA Which included the two-storey building of the old station “Kalamata-Limen” and a water tower. Also 28 acres were granted by the Municipality of Kalamata and 1.4 acres by the Agricultural Bank of Greece.

The exhibits of the Museum include the station and its area, with a two-storey hatch station, four boarding booths with an entrance booth, a water tower, three steam tanks and wheelhouses, a 28 m metal footbridge along the station’s shaft and micro organizing elements Of the railway landscape (change keys, lights, stops). There are seven steamships and one diesel car, a hand operated crane (1890), two rods (bicycle and manual), three A-class passenger cars, five A-B’s (1885), eight trucks of various types (1885-1947) .
All rolling stock comes from OSE SA (From the network of the Peloponnese and Thessaly), apart from the train station of the ISAP, and has been granted to the Municipality of Kalamata with the status of loan. It is located just 5 minutes from the main square of Kalamata, following the Aristomenous Street towards the harbor.
The area of ​​the park is bounded by Makedonia Street up to Crete road near the harbor and the two vertical streets Aristomenos and Psars. The park, besides the railway exhibits it includes, features a basketball court and volleyball as well as other facilities for children’s entertainment.
There are also several clubs such as the Association of Friends of the Railroad of Messinia (SPSM), or the railway vehicles of the park or its buildings.
It is worth noting that the main building of the park is the renovated “Kalamata – Limen” station, which currently performs debts at the ground floor and the headquarters of the SPSM on the floor and has been allocated for use by the Railway Club and OSE SA.