„The exhibition commemorates this year's significant railway anniversaries The opening of the world's first public steam railway line in England between the cities of Stockton and Darlington. 200 years ago, the ceremonial groundbreaking marked the start of construction of a horse-drawn railway line from České Budějovice to Linz – the first public railway in our country. 180 years ago, the first steam train arrived in Prague at what is now Masaryk Station, and the oldest preserved steam locomotive in the Czech Republic, Kladno I. 103, is celebrating its 170th birthday. It can be seen in the Transport exhibition at the National Technical Museum. 150 years ago, the Praha-Těšnov railway station was opened, one of the most beautiful railway buildings in Central Europe, which was unfortunately demolished 40 years ago.,“ uvedl generální ředitel NTM Karel Ksandr.

„In the exhibition "What Created the Railway, What the Railway Created," visitors will learn about the beginnings of rail transport, see a nearly two-hundred-year-old British-made steam engine, original exhibits from the early days of railways in our country, and play at being a dispatcher on a fully interactive exhibit featuring an authentic signal box from the Trhový Štěpánov railway station. “ described the exhibition by its author Adam Horký, curator of the Railway and Electrical Engineering Museum at the National Technical Museum.

"The exhibition was created as part of the scientific project Two Centuries of Railways in the Czech Lands NAKI III, led by the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University and co-led by the National Technical Museum and the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University," added Michal Novotný on behalf of the National Technical Museum.

As the title suggests, the exhibition presents the fundamental phenomena that "created" the railway (primarily the development of industrial production) and those that the railway brought about (a new impetus for the development of construction and architectural standardization, new safety and signaling devices, but also, for example, a uniform time system). "What the railroad created or helped to create remains permanent in many respects. Modern society's dependence on fast transport anytime and anywhere, easy access to a variety of goods, and precision calculated to the second are achievements for which modern man owes a debt of gratitude to the railway," reads the introductory panel of the exhibition.