A few months ago, a question became popular on the Internet – are you able to land a plane? – aimed at a male audience. The answer used to be a resounding yes: a yes with no empirical basis. The question could be rephrased and oriented to the railway field: Are you able to start or stop a train? And the answer would or could have, at least in Madrid, an empirical basis.
The Railway Museum opened in July this summer a room called Renfe-Simulators. Its function is almost self-explanatory: levers and a screen simulate the experience (experience is a euphemism for work, in this case) of driving a train.
In fact, the machines used before were at the Renfe Training School: they are two cabins that were used to train train train drivers. They can be used to start, accelerate or brake. And they drive both conventional and high-speed lines.
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And if driving is not enough or is considered an emotion of high responsibility, the CIMAF garden offers for the youngest the possibility of being a passenger on a mini-train. From 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., a small real train of reduced dimensions (12.7 cm wide) travels around a circuit.
Visits to the new museum hall are included in the entrance ticket to the Railway Museum, which costs 7 € for the general public and 4 € for students, children between 4 and 12 years, over 65 and members of the associations of Friends of the Railway.
- Monday to Friday, from 09:30 to 15:00 hours.
- Saturdays and holidays, from 10:00 to 19:00 hours.
- Sunday, from 10:00 to 15:00 hours.