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Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
The museum has a wide collection of locomotives and rolling stock, some of which are fully restored, three are converted into Thomas, Percy and Toby replicas while others are undergoing repair and restoration. The Restoration Shed was built in 1983–4, before which most work had to take place in the Goods Shed or in the open.
A Charity called the GCR Rolling Stock Trust based at the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) owns the third largest (after the Bluebell Railway and Isle of Wight Steam Railway) collection of pre-grouping rolling stock known to exist in the UK, including the famous 'Barnum' carriages (so named as these were the type hired by P.T. Barnum's ...
Electric Railway Museum, Warwickshire - closed in October 2017, (rolling stock relocated to other preserved railways across the UK). Elsecar Heritage Railway, South Yorkshire - closed 2020. Finmere railway station, Buckinghamshire (stock relocated after the land was developed for HS2).
The National Railway Museum has over 6,000 objects on display [7] of which around 100 are locomotives or rolling stock which tell the stories for Britain's railway innovation. The collection also includes fine jewellery worn by railway queens, [ clarification needed ] models of planes, boats and hovercraft, and experimental technologies such as ...
The museum is housed in a former engineering workshop, built c.1842 using squared rubble from the Box Tunnel, and forming part of the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway. [2] The works was one of the largest in the world and operated from 1843 to 1986.
101 – two bar wooden slate wagon, 1 ton capacity: the first item in the museum collection in 1953. 117 – metal bodied incline wagon: to museum in 1973. 136 – three bar wooden slate wagon, 1 ton capacity: to museum in 1994. 146 – covered wooden van, with brake, based on parts lying at Rhydyronen from the 1930s to 1997.
1930 Stock Car No. 803 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Post Office Railway (London) 1930 Stock No. 803 [17] London Underground CO/CP Stock unit 53028+013063+54233 ; New York City Subway car No. 1144, an R6, converted into a cafeteria for the museum. [18]