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National Railway Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Locomotion - the National Railway Museum in Shildon was opened in 2004 in County Durham due to lack of space at York to house a growing National Collection. The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York forms part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry. The NRM was established on its present site in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways Collection located in Clapham, and the York Railway Museum located elsewhere in the city, since then the collection has continued to grow. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Railway_Museum   (301 words)

Middlethorpe Hall - Places of Interest - National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum houses the world's pre-eminent railway collection, which traces the evolution of the railway from the origins of the steam locomotive in Britain nearly two hundred years ago to the railway renaissance of the late twentieth century, epitomised by the channel tunnel. The National Collection also includes a host of other artefacts associated with National railways, such as 3,300 models, 6,500 items of silver and crockery, over 300 nameplates, 350,000 tickets, 1,800 buttons and 1.4 million negatives, 350,000 engineering drawings, 7,500 posters, 200 original works of art. These collections bring us the history of railways, provide glimpses into the future and offer an opportunity to explore some of the most challenging and romantic episodes of the past two hundred years. www.middlethorpe.com /places/museum.php   (239 words)

National Railway Museum York The National Railway Museum in York, England is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. Each railway company was keen to shave another few minutes off the journey time and make their trains more comfortable than anyone else´s. The Shinkansen was the first railway designed to move large numbers of people in comfort at high speed, on the ´Bullet Train´ The service was compared with air travel. www.britevents.com /event.asp?title=National&event=559   (800 words)

National Railway Museum, York The National Railway Museum is Britain's largest repository of historic railway material and includes locomotives dating as far back as 1829. In 1975, the National Railway Museum, housed in a different building at the time, inherited British Rail's collection and continued to develop it. In the Museum's library archive are found extensive research materials on all aspects of the British railways. www.britainexpress.com /cities/york/railwaymuseum.htm   (707 words)

National Railroad Museum – Explore America's Railroad Heritage Contact Us The National Railroad Museum is a privately funded, non-profit corporation The goal of the Eisenhower Project is the construction of a permanent exhibit in the Museum's Lenfestey Center that better interprets for Museum guests the significance of both the Dwight D. Eisenhower locomotive and the command coaches. To garner these funds, the Museum is relying completely on contributions from people, perhaps like yourself, who share the Museum's passion in telling the story behind the Eisenhower collection. www.nationalrrmuseum.org   (615 words)

National Museum of Science and Industry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) is a collection of British museums, comprising: A new project, Creative Planet concerning sustainable development, is currently being developed at the Science Museum Wroughton Swindon, Wiltshire. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Museum_of_Science_and_Industry   (112 words)

Mexico’s National Railway Museum / Alvarez , and this explains why it was chosen as the seat of a national railway museum, the Mueso Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos (MNFM), located on a plot formerly part of the city’s old station. The MNFM opened to the public in 1988, its aim being ‘to guarantee the rescue, safe keeping, study and communication of the national heritage, cultural and artistic, generated by the Mexican railways in the course of their 150 years’ history’. A large quantity of the pieces in the MNFM’s collection were gathered in Puebla from different parts of the country, especially from Aguascalientes, which, 537 km north-west of Mexico City, was considered too distant from the capital, regarded by many at the country’s ‘centre’, to host a national museum. www.dartmouth.edu /~rtminsk/Alvarez.htm   (1105 words)

BBC - North Yorkshire - 360º views - National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum opened at York in 1975, entry is free. This photo was taken from the side of the locomotive sitting on the turntable at York's National Railway Museum. National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York YO26 4XJ. www.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/webcams/360/popup/nrm_loco_side.shtml   (238 words)

:::National Rail Museum::: National Rail Museum is the focus of Rail Heritage of India a source of fascination and interest in Railways for all. The Museum promises to take the visitors on an exciting journey into the Railway history and heritage and depict their contribution to the industrial and economic progress of the country. 1977, this one-of-its-kind museum in Asia has an interesting collection of history, heritage, romance, nostalgia, fun, leisure and entertainment, all at one place. www.railmuseum.org   (265 words)

The national railway museum The Mexican National Railway Museum is located on the land once occupied by the stations belonging to the Ferrocarril Mexicano and el Mexicano del Sur (The Mexican Railways and the Mexican Southern Railway) in Puebla. Today the museum continues to carry out its conservation work on the railway heritage, concentrating on rolling stock, stations, bridges, railway tracks and other parts of the infrastructure, as well as furniture and documents. Finally, one of the museum’s main projects is based on the interest FNM has in preserving the old stations, especially those not in current use. www.mexicodesconocido.com /english/zonas_arqueologicas_y_museos/centro/detalle.cfm?idsec=47&idsub=0&idpag=875   (1196 words)

National Railway Museum, York, Yorkshire and Humberside - lastminute.com York's National Railway Museum is a trainspotter's heaven - a mammoth shrine to all things that move on rails. National Railway Museum, York, Yorkshire and Humberside - lastminute.com The museum takes visitors on a journey through over 200 years of life on the railways, taking in the golden age of steam travel from "real" platforms, where sound effects recreate the busy and exciting atmosphere of another era. www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Yorkshire-and-Humberside/York/WOW-Attraction-103736.html   (481 words)

National Railway Museum - Midwest Destination - Green Bay, Wisconsin / ComPortOne of Rockford The National Railway Museum of Green Bay, Wisconsin is a hands-on [or should I say walk-on] exhibit. National Railway Museum - Midwest Destination - Green Bay, Wisconsin / ComPortOne of Rockford I love historical sites but I wasn't sure what the railway museum would have to offer, I thought, "Just how interesting can this be?" I was wrong. www.comportone.com /cpo/destination/articles/nationalrailwaymuseum.htm   (590 words)

National Soceties The National Railway Museum is the largest railway museum in the world, boasting a host of railway icons and literally millions of artefacts. The EMGS is the largest of the Model Railway Societies catering for the needs of modellers in 4mm fine scale railway modelling. Our present members have a wide range of railway interests, both British and Overseas and many have moved up from the smaller scales to take advantage of the undoubted satisfaction of modelling in the larger scale. www.btinternet.com /~iotrs/national_soceties.htm   (404 words)

National Railway Museum Information. Together with the Science Museum, London and National Railway Museum, York the NMPFT forms the National Museum of Science & Industry. Latest News Locomotion is Shortlisted for Arts Prize Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon, has been shortlisted for The Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year. Railway Preservation Society is dedicated to the advancement of Scottish railway heritage. www.askvicki.co.uk /found.php?ass=1606&qry=National%20Railway%20Museum   (924 words)

National Railway Museum It was subsequently relocated in Chennai Railway Museum. WDM4 as it arrived at NRM in 2001. Many of us are unaware of the daunting tasks the NRM management faces to keep exhibits to a reasonable standard. www.trainweb.org /railworld/NRM/national_railway_museum6.htm   (122 words)

York: National Railway Museum A replica is at the National Railway museum. The National Railway Museum in York, largest railway museum in the world, displays locomotives, rolling stock, travel posters, photographs, and other rail paraphernalia from England and around the world. A railways is more more than just a machine, "it is also a major industrial and economic force, which has inevitably played a significant role in the social history of Britain." www.macalester.edu /geography/courses/geog261/tclement/nrm.htm   (154 words)

The Good Web Guide Website Review - National Railway Museum Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Stirling Castle The NRM page has a great deal of information on up and coming exhibitions and a number of links to useful institutions can be found. It is a real shame that this rather static site does not have the warmth and energy of ingenius.org.uk a page it provides a link to. www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk /chan_trav/wwwreviews.php3?rev_id=002227   (256 words)

National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum is located in Green Bay WI, and very disappointing it is too. web.ukonline.co.uk /phantasrail/usa/nrm.htm   (16 words)

THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME, INC. - Hamlet NC, The National Railroad Museum was relocated to a temporary location on Hamlet Avenue in November, 2000 where it will remain in operation until the station has been restored. The purpose of the museum is to create that time when railroads were the main source of long distance travel and passenger train service was at its zenith. The Museum's purpose is to preserve railroad history and promote that history in modern-day railroading. www.micropublishing.com /railroad   (710 words)

NETPark - National railway museum opens in County Durham Locomotion, the first national railway museum in the North East, has opened to visitors. By producing a museum of national importance, Locomotion aims to "assist to diversify the local economy and create jobs" throughout the region. The museum is situated in Shildon and comprises the Timothy Hackworth Museum and a new building that will house 60 vehicles from the National Collection. www.uknetpark.net /main/s234/st59167htm   (182 words)

RAILFEST 2004 The National Railway Museum is located on Leeman Road in the city of York in the United Kingdom. The NRM is considered by many to be the best rail transport museum in the world. In 1829 the Rocket won the Rainhill trials that established Stephenson as the foremost builder of railway locomotives in England. www.discoverlivesteam.com /magazine/37.html   (353 words)

Timothy Hackworth Victorian & Railway Museum-Entrance The museum is now incorporated into The National Railway Museum at Shildon. Voted Visitor Attraction of the Year 1999, by the Northumbria Tourist Board, the museum has now expanded its activities as the National Railway Museum, Reserve Collection has moved to the town. The museum tells the story of the part played by Timothy Hackworth in the birth of passenger railways with the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and the contribution he and the people of Shildon made to the development of the railways throughout the world. www.railcentre.co.uk /museum/museum.htm   (321 words)

Partnering and Managing for Excellence: Steamtown National Historic Site When Steamtown was created, the National Park Service decided to use the existing portions of the Roundhouse (dating from 1902, 1917 and 1937) as a part of the Museum Complex, while adding a Visitor Center, Theater, Technology Museum and History Museum. Inside the History Museum, there is a timeline of railroading, from the earliest days of rails to the 1980s, with a special focus on anthracite mining and the DLandW's president, William Truesdale. The Technology Museum includes a sectioned steam locomotive, a caboose and a boxcar that may be entered, and exhibits covering such technical aspects of railroading as Making and Using Steam, Signals, Disasters, Railroad Jargon, Architecture, Maintenance of Way, and others. www.nps.gov /parkoftheweek/stea.htm   (545 words)

The National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum in York is big. We found there was a playground, a miniature railway, a magician's road, a Royal Mail office, cartoons designed for "very small kids" and children's meals. Recently an extension to the Museum was opened, called The Works, which is 3,000 square metres alone. www.childrens-express.org /dynamic/public/d227375.htm   (522 words)

National Railway Museum York tourism guide and tourist information YORKinsideOUT The National Railway Museum is home to a wide range of railway icons and literally millions of artefacts, from Mallard - the world's fastest steam locomotive - to a lock of Robert Stephensons hair. The museum has an ever-changing programme of special events for all the family, including regular days out with Thomas and his friends, featuring Sir Topham Hatt, The Fat Controller. British Rail - A Moving Story charts 50 years of state-owned railways through the eyes of the people who worked in the industry, including Pete Waterman and Joe Brown, who were both former BR steam locomotive firemen. www.thisisyork.co.uk /york/insideout/attractions/national_railway_museum.html   (395 words)

Railfest, at the National Railway Museum, York Part of the national collection, it is now based at the National Railway Museum, where it has been restored to full operational condition. 4472 Flying Scotsman, recently bought by the National Railway Museum, receives some last minute attention. Furness Railway's No. 20, often to be seen hauling tourists on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway in the Lake District, was built in 1863 and is the oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive in Britain. www.luphen.org.uk /public/2004/2004railfest.htm   (677 words)

National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum was opened in September 1975 and offers two major exhibition halls. The National Railway Museum is part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. On show are many famous locomotives and carriages, signalling equipment and displays from the modern railway. www.soc.staffs.ac.uk /dtr1/collect/nrm_enam.html   (79 words)

National Railway Museum : HBS Working Knowledge The National Railway Museum of Britain holds one of the most extensive collections of historic railway material in the world. The visitor can explore topics such as the "History of Rail Road Photography" and "Railway Posters." Using wonderful visual images, the exhibits convey the tremendous impact the growth of railroads had on Britain, not only as an economic force, but also in changing the national cultural and social landscape. Rich in details and engaging images, the Museum's Web site is a wonderful resource for both the serious scholar and the railroad buff. hbswk.hbs.edu /web-review.jhtml?id=2482&t=bizhistory   (121 words)

The French National Railway Museum, Mulhouse It is still used for testing railway vehicles today. 231U1 was a one off locomotive designed by Marc de Caso of the Nord Railway. 232U1 is one of the real stars of the museum. www.martynbane.co.uk /2003Trips/Brienzetc/museum.htm   (789 words)

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