It was inaugurated on October 22, 1998 by the current king Felipe VI as Prince of Asturias in that moment.

The centre is economically supported by Gijón City Council, and it’s integrated in the museums municipal network.

It has more than 1,000 objects, of which 140 are rolling stock including steam and diesel locomotives, wagons, trams and other material related with the history of train technologies in Spain.

The museum is a reference centre for the study of Spanish railway history and have many documentation (books, photographs, maps, statistics, companies shares, technical documents, economic studies, working and social conditions descriptions) available for researchers.

In some cases, this is a difficult process that implies consulting technical and historic documents and takes a lot of time and money.