The Basque Railway Museum run by Euskotren, a publicly-owned company of the Basque Government, will get the 2024 steam train season underway with ten special journeys over Easter.

After Easter, the regular service will run every Saturday until 3 November, with departures at 12.00 noon and 5.30 p.m., and at 12.00 noon on Sundays and bank holidays.  The 'Stoker for a Day' activity – an opportunity to travel in the steam engine's cab – will be run on Sundays and bank holidays from 7 April.

The facilities' opening hours from 2 April will be as follows: 

Tuesdays to Fridays (not bank holidays)
Mornings: from 10.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Afternoons: from 3.00 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

Saturdays:      
Mornings: from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
Afternoons: 4.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

Sundays and bank holidays (except Mondays):
Mornings: from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

The Basque Railway Museum boasts one of the best railway collections in Europe featuring a whole range of vehicles: electric, diesel and steam locomotives, railcars and different types of wagons.      

It also has one of the Basque Country’s most comprehensive sets of machine tools from the former Urola railway repair shop. There is also a display of railway uniforms from the end of the 19th century and one of the best railway clock collections in the world.

The Basque Railway Museum is also home to an exhibition paying tribute to the victims of forced and slave labour during the Spanish Civil War and under Franco’s dictatorship. The permanent exhibition shows how thousands of prisoners of war from 1937 and during much of the dictatorship, and later common criminals, were used to rebuild towns, infrastructure, or to build roads, reservoirs and railways.       

Information for the general public      

•    Address of the Basque Railway Museum: calle Julián Elorza, 8 (20730 AZPEITIA-GIPUZKOA).      
•    Information hotline: 943 15 06 77
•    Fax: 943 15 07 46
•    Email: museoa@euskotren.eus
•    Website: www.euskotren.eus