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* York Area Index * The National Railway Museum York 9a. YORK NRM Part 1 The locomotives are arranged in chronological order of the year they were built including historic steam locomotives from 1829 to 2008, plus some diesel and electric trains
To get to the National Railway Museum from York Station you cross the footbridge across all the platforms, lower right in the picture above, and beneath the magnificent iron girder structure of the roof of York Station (more station pictures).
A handsome pair of express passenger locomotive driving wheels greet you at the side entrance!
Wonderful nostalgia for some of us, and still magical even for the very young! At the centre of the museum is the great turntable of the Great Hall surrounded by a super array of steam, diesel and electric locomotives from the last 150+ years Year 1829 (1)
A full size replica of the ROCKET, the 0-2-2 steam locomotive built in 1829 by Stephenson for the famous Rainhill trials of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. It was the only competitor to complete the course and comply with the conditions laid down for the contest.
The ROCKET is lined up with its fastest successor! namely LNER's MALLARD 4-6-2 pacific locomotive. Year 1829 (2)
THE AGENORIA 0-4-0 built by the Foster Rastrick & Co. Stourbridge 1829
Year 1847
A full size replica of IRON DUKE built in 1985! but the original was a broad gauge Great Western Railway (GWR) 4-2-2 locomotive in 1847 designed by Daniel Gooch. Unfortunately the 7' 0¼" gauge in 1892 and that was the end of the line for such locomotives!
Year 1865
The Crewe Works PET is a small 0-4-0 18 inch narrow gauge locomotive that spent its 64 year working life from 1865 to 1929 moving railway parts and materials around the maze of foundries, boiler shops and wheeling sheds of London & North Western Railway's Crewe Locomotive and Carriage Works. Its small size allowed easy access to all parts of the works! Year 1869
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) locomotive No 66 AEROLITE. This NER Class X1 2-2-4T was originally built in 1869 as a 2-2-2WT and rebuilt at Gateshead Works in 1892 as a 4-2-2T and rebuilt again 2-2-4T and used to pull inspections saloons trains.
The cab and controls of No 66 AEROLITE Year 1870
Great Northern Railway (GNR) 4-2-2 Stirling No. 1 built at Doncaster Works in 1870.
- Year 1874 (1)
"Conserved but not restored" sums up this funny little Hebburn Works 0-4-0 industrial saddle tank engine built in 1874 by Black Hawthorn & Co. Ltd. of Gateshead. Many visitors might not even notice it but Bauxite No 2 worked in an aluminium smelting plant until 1947 pushing wagons of bauxite rock into aluminium smelters. The NRM look after it, but it has never been repainted. This grimy little loco was (to quote from the information board), "the Victorian equivalent of a forklift truck" and many similar small industrial 19th century locomotives spent their life moving materials around factories, quarries and docks etc.
Year 1882
214 GLADSTONE belongs to Class B1 "Gladstones" 0-4-2 express locomotives built between 1882 and 1891 by Stroudly for the LBSCR (London, Brighton & South Coast Railway). A very impressive emblem on the front of the locomotive.
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Some lovely Victorian stained glass from Chesterfield Station on the Midland Railway.
A fine collection of number and name plates including:- 71000, CUDWORTH, KING UTHER, YORKSHIRE, SILVER LINK, VISCOUNT RIDLEY, SILVER FOX complete with an emblem of a silver fox!
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NER
0-6-0 Class 1001, locomotive 1275 built at Darlington in
1874. It is Bouch design for the Stockton and Darlington
Railway.
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