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Nairobi Railway Museum preserves locomotives, rolling stock and railway memorabilia from the region's rail history. It sits beside the working railway in Nairobi, where the old line still runs.
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Capital Comfort is the nearest hotel to Nairobi Railway Museum, 130 m away and about a 2-minute walk, which makes it easy to fit the indoor hall and the open-air locomotive yard into a short outing. The 3-star property offers free Wifi and wheelchair access.
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At 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, around a 3-minute walk, this 4-star hotel in Meru keeps the locomotives, the Ryall carriage and the yard of steam engines a short stroll from your room. A gymnasium and a breakfast room are among its facilities.
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Scenic View Hotel & Resort sits 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, about a 3-minute walk, and this 3-star hotel has an outdoor pool, free car parking, breakfast and free Wifi. Its guest score stands at 3.6 from 321 reviews.
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Hotel Horns is 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, a 3-minute walk, placing the museum's indoor gallery and outdoor engine yard close by. The 3-star hotel provides free car parking, breakfast, wheelchair access and free Wifi.
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Loldia House lies 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, roughly 3 minutes on foot, so the locomotives and the inspection carriage of the Ryall story are nearby. This 3-star hotel offers breakfast, wheelchair access and free Wifi.
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Maasai Lodge is 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, about a 3-minute walk, convenient for combining the indoor collection with the climbable engines in the outdoor yard. The 3-star hotel serves breakfast in room and has a beach nearby.
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Ol Moran Tented Camp stands 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, a 3-minute walk, which keeps the metre-gauge locomotives and the museum's photographs within easy reach. Free car parking and breakfast are offered at this 3-star camp.
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Rusam Villa Guest House is 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, around 3 minutes on foot, handy for a morning in the indoor hall and the open-air yard. The 3-star guest house has free car parking, a kitchen and free Wifi.
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White House is 200 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, a 3-minute walk, so the museum's locomotives and the Ryall carriage are only a short step away. This 3-star hotel offers free car parking and wheelchair access.
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Nairobi Airport Inn lies 180 m from Nairobi Railway Museum, about 3 minutes on foot, putting the museum's indoor gallery and outdoor engines close at hand. It holds a guest score of 4.4 from 91 reviews.
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Distances from the listed hotels to Nairobi Railway Museum are short throughout. Capital Comfort is the closest at 130 m, about a 2-minute walk. The Alba Hotels Ltd, Scenic View Hotel & Resort, Hotel Horns, Loldia House, Maasai Lodge, Ol Moran Tented Camp, Rusam Villa Guest House, White House, Nairobi Airport Inn, Bogota Nairobi, Boma Inn and Cozy two bedroom apartment in Kilimani Nairobi all lie 180 m to 200 m away, a 3-minute walk. With every property inside a 4-minute walk, guests reach the museum on foot rather than by taxi or transit, and the station area around Station Road is where the walk begins.
The Nairobi Railway Museum opened in 1971 beside the marshalling yards off Station Road, in a city that exists because of the railway: Nairobi began as a railhead depot on the swampy plain in 1899. Inside, a single long hall holds locomotives, coaches, signalling equipment, station clocks, dining car silver, engineering drawings, staff uniforms and thousands of photographs, along with the inspection carriage from which Superintendent Charles Ryall was taken by a lion at Kima station in 1900. Outdoors, steam and diesel engines from the metre-gauge era stand in the open air on short lengths of track. Visitors come for the stories behind the Uganda Railway, the line pushed inland from Mombasa from 1896 and mocked in the British press as the Lunatic Express, and to climb into cabs and sit on footplates. Guides often attach themselves to visitors and turn the objects into accounts of the Tsavo lions, the Indian labourers who built the line and the engineers who surveyed the escarpment. Beyond the fence the modern Kenya Railways yards clank and shunt.
Capital Comfort is the closest hotel we list, about 2 min walk · 130 m from Nairobi Railway Museum in a straight line, in Nairobi.
Yes: 38 of the hotels we list are within 1 km of Nairobi Railway Museum, about a 15-minute walk, and 25 are within 500 m. The closest is Capital Comfort, 130 m away.
Scenic View Hotel & Resort, Hotel Horns, Ol Moran Tented Camp list free parking on their own page. Check the hotel page for the details.
InterContinental Nairobi has the best guest score of the hotels near Nairobi Railway Museum: 4.5/5 from 5,334 reviews, 680 m away.
4 of the hotels we list within 1 km of Nairobi Railway Museum have 4 or 5 stars, the nearest being The Alba Hotels Ltd (180 m).
The listed hotels near Nairobi Railway Museum all sit within a short walk. 25 hotels lie within 500 m, 38 within 1 km and 262 within 2 km, and every property listed on this page is between 130 m and 270 m from the museum, a walk of 2 to 4 minutes.
Among the listed hotels with guest scores, Fish Eagle Inn scores 4.7 from 9 reviews and Nairobi Airport Inn scores 4.4 from 91 reviews. Scenic View Hotel & Resort scores 3.6 from 321 reviews, and Hotel Horns scores 2.0 from 1 review.