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Virtual museum

Novate Workshops

Explaining today the change taking place would take time and knowledge. The workshops were and still are, albeit in a more detached way, the true production site of a railway company.
Train maintenance is a virtually unknown topic, but if properly explored, it would merit publications of its own due to its complexity and the strict rules governing it.
The “product” of the workshops is railway efficiency, not a simple route to travel along all its many branches, of which these images offer just a glimpse.

 

The underfloor wheel lathe installed in 1968 in the old locomotive depot at Novate

Novate dates back to the late 1920s as a result of electrification of the railway; a place in the country which gradually came to replace Saronno and Milan as the nerve centre of FNM, and which has always represented the real training site and the first step on the career ladder of any true railway engineer.

View of the locomotive depot in the early 1950s. An Md520 diesel railcar can be seen, as well as a “Bombolo” (Md 510), a stainless steel trailer, a two-axle wagon, an E600 locomotive and, in the foreground, a CRA “Camolino” wagon