In The Works, the overhaul of Nigel Gresley continues. Locomotive Engineer Darrin Crone provides us with an insight of the previous couple of weeks’ work.
Keep up to date with the latest goings-on at the museum, see what we have planned for the future and take a peek behind the scenes with our fantastic volunteers.
New redevelopment plans will make will make the National Railway Museum the cultural heart of a new city centre district for York.
Recent visitors to the workshop at the National Railway Museum will have noticed we’ve got a special guest staying with us for a while – meet locomotive Sir Nigel Gresley.
As the locomotive’s overhaul nears completion, you might be wondering how much of this rail icon has been there since it was first built.
The amazing collections at the National Railway Museum encompass global as well as British rail history.
As a matter of fact I’m a rather cosmopolitan train – part-French, part-Brummie.
On the day the Queen celebrated being our longest serving monarch she enjoyed a train ride—one that is a potent symbol of the rail renaissance happening now across Britain.
One famous locomotive, many different get-ups—how should Flying Scotsman look?
Our volunteers recreate a railway disaster, revealing what happened on a fateful day in 1949.
24 January 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death. It’s often forgotten that staging the greatest state funeral since the death of Queen Victoria took years of planning.
What stories do our collections tell about railway riflemen between the wars?
There’s more than one use for a locomotive’s smokebox—Rail Operations Manager Noel Hartley explains how to whip up a festive feast on the move.