National Railway Museum
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The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York forms part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry.
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The NRM contains a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 200 other items of rolling stock, together with many hundreds of thousands of other items of social, technical and historical interest (down to a lock of Robert Stephenson's hair) displayed in three large halls of a former motive power depot next to the East Coast Main Line, near York railway station. It is the largest museum of its type in the world with over 750,000 visitors a year. It is open daily from 10am to 6pm. The permanent display includes "Palaces on Wheels", a collection of Royal Train coaches from Queen Victoria's early trains to those used by Queen Elizabeth II up to the 1970s. A balcony overlooking York railway station hosts a set of monitors showing live feeds from the monitors at York IECC.
The NRM was established on its present site in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways Collection located in Clapham and the York Railway Museum located elsewhere in the city; since then, the collection has continued to grow. The Head of the Museum since 1994 has been Andrew Scott.
All items of rolling stock exhibited either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built there, with the single exception of a Japanese "Series 0" Shinkansen bullet train leading vehicle, which was donated to the NRM by the JR West railway company in 2001 and which now forms part of an award-winning display.
The Museum is a short walk from the railway station in York, either on the road or via a staircase from the rear of the platforms. A "roadtrain" runs from the city centre (near York Minster) to the museum on Leeman Road. Admission to the museum is free.
Locomotion - the National Railway Museum in Shildon was opened in 2004 in County Durham. It houses more of the national collection in a new building and a historic site around the former workshop of Timothy Hackworth.
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 The Yorkshire Wheel |
 Class 31 No. 31018 - On display in the great hall |
 A "Bullet Train" of the type on display at the NRM |
 Hogwarts Express visits the museum in 2004 |
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- NRM website
- NRM events website
- The official National Railway Museum print website containing many vintage posters and prints from the museum's collections
- Map sources for the National Railway Museum
- Photo essay on museum's displays
- Photos of Steam Locos in York
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