As a matter of fact I’m a rather cosmopolitan train – part-French, part-Brummie.
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.
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.
Using a model railway to explain how a combination of casual rule breaking and concentration failures led to death and destruction in a Manchester suburb.
Now that Bonfire Night and Remembrance Sunday have passed we can begin to look forward to winter, and for film buffs that means the start of awards season.
What can hobby guides and other literature tell us about the hobby, its followers and railway history itself?
The National Railway Museum relies on the fantastic work of volunteers—find out more about what they get up to.
Discover more about the design behind a symbol of modernity.