National Railway Museum, England is one of the major England Tourist Attractions should be included in your England Travel itinerary. It is actually a museum in York and a part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry. It depicts the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. National Railway Museum, England has received several awards including the prestigious European Museum of the Year in 2001.
National Railway Museum, England displays a collection of over 100 locomotives and around 200 other items of rolling stock. All these items either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built there. Also, there are other items of social, technical, artistic and historical interest on the 20 acre site. These items are mostly exhibited in three large halls of a former motive power depot next to the East Coast Main Line near the York Railway Station.
National Railway Museum, England is the largest museum of its kind in the world. With over 744,000 visitors a year, it also has more visitors than any other British museum outside London. The museum 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.
National Railway Museum in England has approximately 280 rail vehicles in the National Collection with around 100 being at York and the rest is divided between the Locomotion at Shildon and other museums and heritage railways. Among these, the earliest are the wagon way vehicles which can be dated back to 1815. The permanent display includes ‘Palaces on Wheels’, a collection of Royal Train saloons from Queen Victoria's early trains and also those used by Queen Elizabeth II up to the 1970s.
Other exhibits normally to be seen at York include the 1846 Furness Railway No. 3 ‘Coppernob’ locomotive and the more modern express passenger steam locomotives London and North Eastern Railway Class A3 No. 4472 Flying Scotsman, Class A4 No. 4468 Mallard and London, Midland and Scottish Railway Princess Coronation Class No. 6229 Duchess of Hamilton.
With all these and more, the National Railway Museum, England is one of the major England Tourist Destinations.
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