National Railway Museum, York, England

We made our first visit to the NRM for many years on saturday. Here are some of the exhibits.

SECR 4-4-0


GNR 4-wheel teak passenger full luggage/brake van


NER 4-4-0

 

GWR 2-8-0


Bulleid pacific 'Winston Churchill'


Furness Railway 0-4-0 in steam, giving rides

 

MR 4-2-2


World steam speed record holder 'Mallard'




LBSCR 0-4-2

 

Japanese Shinkansen 'Bullet Train'

 

Chinese 4-8-4




Reproduction GWR Broad Gauge 'Iron Duke'

 

LMS streamlined pacific 6229 Duchess of Hamilton






The HST prototype power car

 

GWR 6000 King George V 4-6-0


underneath the loco




Brass bell on the footplate

 

Sectioned Bulleid pacific to show internal workings




The other side

 

Stirling Single 4-2-2 with 8ft diameter driving wheels


1500V DC electric loco used on the Sheffield-Manchester route, long closed


Class 87 electric loco recently replaced on the west coast line by Pendolinos


Some of the locos surrounding the turntable

 

On the turntable is LNW 2-4-0 'Hardwicke'


In the workshop, restoration is underway on Flying Scotsman and other locos and vehicles


http://images.fotopic.net/1y6nu4.jpg

 

Finally, the beginning of our railways - the replica of the 'Rocket'


All pictures shown here http://alansgallery.fotopic.net/c1775951.html

 

Interesting 'before and after' images.

I photographed this loco in August 1963 at Derby works, already earmarked for preservation.



It is now in York Museum.