The Euskotren Basque Railway Museum, a publicly-owned company of the Basque Government, will get the 2023 steam train season underway with ten special rides over Easter. There will be at least two departures a day - at 11.00 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.- - from the museum to Lasao station (Azpeitia).

After Easter, the regular service will run every Saturday until November, with departures at 12.00 noon and 5.30 p.m., and at 12.00 noon on Sundays and bank holidays.

The Basque Railway…

How would it feel to travel in the cab of a steam locomotive? Would you like to learn how it works? The Basque Railway Museum offers the possibility of being a STOKER FOR A DAY on the existing service between Azpeitia and Lasao.

The initiative consists of a complete round trip in the cab of the steam locomotive. But, not only that. You will be accompanying the engine driver and stoker during all the necessary preparations for starting up the locomotive and you…

The Basque Railway Museum is a unique and unrepeatable stage for shooting feature films, short films, music videos, advertising spots or even to portray special moments such as weddings, professional meetings, communions, fashion events…

Historical locomotives, all kinds of railway carriages, an old mechanical workshop are some of the possible scenarios offered by the Museum, in addition to the possibility of renting the steam train. 

Projects conducted at the…

The Euskotren Basque Railway Museum has added a Seat 600E, donated by Itxaso Corrales, to its vehicle collection at its Azpeitia premises (Gipuzkoa). That vehicle is one of the main icons of the motorisation of Spanish society in the 1960s. The process would lead to the closure of main railways, the bankruptcy of the last private franchise companies such as Ferrocarriles Vascongados or Ferrocarries y Transportes Suburbanos de Bilbao and their being absorbed by the public sector (first as…

The stream engine season has started at the Euskotren Basque Railway Museum and the locomotives will run every weekend until early November.  

The steam engines will depart from the Museum (Azpeitia) to Lasao at the following times:

• Saturdays: 12.00 noon and 5.30 p.m.
• Sundays: 12.00 noon

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…