National Railway Museum

Introduction

The National Railway Museum is divided between two sites; the main one in York and another in Shildon.






Dates

  /  /1820Hetton Coal Company
Acquires steam locomotives from George Stephenson to work the new Hetton to Sunderland line. Five in total were acquired by 1822. One engine is preserved at the National Railway Museum.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


NRM York

NRM York is spread out between various former locomotive and goods sheds.

47798 'Prince William', standing outside the National Railway Museum at York, buffered up to of all things a Eurostar power car. Seen from a passing ...
David Bosher 13/05/2016
Judging by the hoardings, sheeting and extractor equipment surrounding the locomotive, some serious work was being undertaken on Brush Type 2 ...
Mark Bartlett 11/10/2023
Preserved EE Type 4 no D200 / 40122 seen here in the summer of 2013 fter being temporarily relocated from the main exhibition hall to 'The Depot' in ...
John Furnevel 04/06/2013
Peckett 0-4-0ST Teddy enjoying the sunshine in the sidings at the National Railway Museum in the summer of 2013. Having spent most of its ...
John Furnevel 04/06/2013
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The 'Station Hall' of the National Railway Museum started life as the principal goods station of the North Eastern Railway in York.
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NRM Shildon

This is a new site built on part of the site of the former Shildon Yard.

Close up of 03090 standing in the sunshine outside the main exhibition hall at Shildon on a February morning in 2007. Former BR Class 03 0-6-0DM no ...
John Furnevel 04/11/2007
NER J21 0-6-0 65033 has been moved by the Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust to the Stainmore Railway at Kirkby Stephen East in 2021. This ...
Mark Bartlett 27/11/2012
1955 Deltic and 1946 Battle of Britain class 4-6-2 'Winston Churchill' side by side at Locomotion, Shildon, on the afternoon of Saturday, 11th May ...
David Bosher 11/05/2019
The old goods shed at Shildon, seen here in November 2010. Dating from 1859 the shed was in use until the 1960s when Shildon lost its goods ...
John Furnevel 23/11/2010
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