34. Centennial Train

Did you know that almost two hundred years ago a locomotive just like this one left Barcelona for the first time and went along the coast to Mataró? To celebrate its first 100 years a new one was built just like the first. And this is the one that is kept in the Museum and taken out on special days. Look at the birthday party that was organised for it!

It was quite an event! It’s that the appearance of the train was super-important and transformed the world and its distances. Because up until then only the more adventurous or wealthy people could leave and move from the place where they were born...

And not too far, because they did so in horse-drawn carriages that took hours and hours to travel… imagine the change it brought

But the train changed everything! Lots of people could fit inside the train at the same time! They could all travel much further together, poor and rich; and they could also transport large quantities of products in much less time….

And now yes, now it's time to get on the train and experience travelling like our great-grandparents did on the first trains in history. Would you like that? Don’t run! We won’t get on this one!

We can’t get in the coloured cars of the centenary train because they are very valuable and they don’t have any steps. Let’s see if we can discover which of these cars the super-rich people travelled in? Let’s go and look at one that’s close by and is waiting for us with the doors open.