JAMAL MOHAMED COLLEGE

Event Name : FIELD VISIT TO RAILWAY MUSEUM, TRICHY, TAMILNADU

Posted On : 12 Sep 2024

Description :-

A field visit for our department students was organized at Railway Museum, Tiruchirappalli on Tuesday 8th August 2023. 19 students from B.Voc. Tourism and Hospitality Management were participated in this visit and our faculty member Mr.S. Yoganand accompanied them. The visit was started in the morning at 10 a.m. Nearly two and half hour was spent by the team to go around the premises of museum and to visit all the articles displayed there. The Rail Museum is located nearer to Central Bus Station of Tiruchirappalli. This museum was inaugurated by Former General Manager of Southern Railways Mr.Rakesh Misra on 18th Feb 2014. The Rail Museum Trichy has been constructed on an area of over 9000 square feet with excellent interior works, landscape and a toy train track. The cost of establishing the Rail Museum was about 1.35 crore. The museum is meant to be part of the erstwhile South Railways 150th Sesquicentennial celebration. Due to fund constraints, the entire museum was opened for the public on 25.02.2015. The museum displays the rich heritage of the South Railways. This museum has both indoor and outdoor exhibits. The Indoor exhibits display of various documents from British rule. It has rare photograph collections, maps, gazettes, railway manuals and books used during British rule. Outdoor exhibits include a few vintage steam locomotives and a fully functional toy train is also operated in the premises. The students really enjoyed the visit and they expressed that they gathered knowledge about the history, growth and development of Indian Railways and its contributions to the evolution travel and tourism industry.