• Book a time slot first, since every visitor needs a free online reservation, even with a Museum Card or a partner ticket
• Arrive by train on the hourly service from Utrecht Centraal to Utrecht Maliebaan, the museum's own station
• Museum Card holders get in free, but only with the physical card: photos and scans are refused

This railway museum is built around a real station, Maliebaan, with platforms and halls full of historic locomotives.

Kids ride Steel Monsters, a cart on real rails through the dark past hissing engines, and Trial by Fire, a prize-winning attraction through 200 years of railway history. In the Techlab they close a circuit to move a train, pedal to feel its energy use and pull an emergency brake.