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National Railway Museum York
All photographs of this location in date order.
![LB&SCR 214 <I>Gladstone</I> inside the old York railway museum on Queen Street circa 1969.<br><br>[John Alexander //1969]](/images/18000/18111.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![School trips didn't get any better than this... young visitors enjoy climbing around the cabs of Great Northern and North Eastern locomotives on display in the original York Railway Museum on 8 June 1969. <br><br>[John McIntyre 08/06/1969]](/images/38000/38214.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Class EM2 27000 <I>Electra</I> on display at York <I>Railfest</I> in 2004. Seven of these locomotives were built at Gorton Works in 1953/4 to handle passenger services over the 1.5kV DC electrified Woodhead route (now closed) between Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly) and Sheffield Victoria (now demolished). The entire class was withdrawn in 1968 and sold to Dutch State Railways the following year. The last 6 examples ended their working lives in Holland in 1986.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/20000/20965.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Bulleid light Pacific 21C123 <I>Blackmoor Vale</I> at York <I>Railfest</I> in 2004.<br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/21000/21004.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Maunsell ex-SR <I>King Arthur</I> class locomotive, BR no 30777, <I>Sir Lamiel</I>, one of the North British built batch, on display at the NRM York Railfest in 2004. <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/21000/21635.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![B class 0-4-0ST locomotive no 778 (originally no 19), formerly of the 2 ft gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, on display at York Railfest in 2004. Built by Sharp Stewart & Co at their Atlas Works, Manchester, in 1889, the locomotive is now preserved on the Beeches private railway in Oxfordshire.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/21000/21731.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Restored ex-Westoe Colliery electric locomotive E4 on display at York Railfest in 2004. The locomotive is currently preserved at the Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields. <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/21000/21975.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![BR <i>Britannia</i> Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> at York Railfest in 2004. <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/22000/22050.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![B12 no 61572 stands alongside 5972 <I>Olton Hall</I> at York Railfest in 2004. The B12 is the last surviving inside cylinder 4-4-0, while no 5972 is the locomotive that became closely associated with the <I>Hogwarts Express</I> in the <I>Harry Potter</I> films.. <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/22000/22118.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Beautifully turned out ex-Furness Railway 0-4-0 No 20 on display as part of <i>Railfest</i> at the NRM, York, in 2004. Built by Sharp Stewart & Co in Manchester in 1863, No 20 is the oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive in Britain. [See image 37662] <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/22000/22343.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Beattie 2-4-0WT no 30587 at York NRM during <I>Railfest 2004</I>. [See image 31870] <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/22000/22748.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![GWR 3440 <I>City of Truro</I> at York Railfest 2004. <br><br>[Colin Alexander //2004]](/images/22000/22898.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> (honest) in the workshops at the National Railway Museum, York, in September 2007. [See image 4383]<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/2007]](/images/26000/26937.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![On 25 September 2007 the replica <I>Rocket</I> rests at the NRM, York... apparently having just rescued a failed class 47 diesel locomotive. [See image 30801]<br><br>[Colin Miller 25/09/2007]](/images/26000/26951.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Preserved 4472 'Flying Scotsman' still undergoing its major overhaul in the workshops of the National Railway Museum, York, on 25 March 2010. Looks like they've finished work on the nameplate...<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/4000/4383.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Old wooden destination boards from the Glasgow District Subway stored in the warehouse section of the National Railway Museum in March 2010. Note the board for the former Govan Cross, the name having been changed to plain Govan in 1980.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28375.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Gleaming Deltic 55002 <I>The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</I> stands alongside the workshops at the National Railway Museum, York on 25 March 2010. Good progress continues on restoration of the locomotive to full running order.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28525.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![D6700 and D8000 are amongst those receiving attention in the NRM workshops at York on 25 March 2010. Other notable visitors in the workshops that day included Deltic 55002 and most of 4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28652.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![<I>Remember these?</I> Some famous train headboards (and some not so famous) on display at the National Railway Museum, York, in March 2010. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28688.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![EE Type 1 no D8000 receives attention in the works area at the National Railway Museum on 25 March 2010. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/28000/28974.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![The original EE Type 4 no D200, photographed at the National Railway Museum, York, in March 2010.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/30000/30001.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![26020 on display in the main hall of the NRM, York in March 2010. Built at Gorton Works in 1951, originally as a class EM1 1500v DC electric locomotive, it was one of a class of 58 built primarily to handle coal traffic on the trans – Pennine Woodhead Route. The locomotive later carried an 'E' prefix for a time before eventually being reclassified and renumbered 76020 under the BR TOPS system.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/60000/60623.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Built at Crewe in 1973, withdrawn in 2005, preserved BR Class 87 electric locomotive no 87001 stands in the main hall of the National Railway Museum, York, in March 2010. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/03/2010]](/images/61000/61992.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![D1023 <I>'Western Fusilier'</I> stands at the entrance to the workshops at the NRM on 29 June 2011. Receiving attention in the background is Deltic 55002 <I>'The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry'</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2011]](/images/34000/34761.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![HST prototype no 252 001 on display at the NRM on 29 June 2011 [see image 36847]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2011]](/images/34000/34909.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Almost there. Deltic 55002 <I>'The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry'</I> nearing the end of a long restoration and refurbishment programme in the NRM workshops on 29 June 2011. A month earlier the locomotive had moved through the yard under its own power for the first time in 14 years.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2011]](/images/34000/34960.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Bulleid 'Battle of Britain' Pacific no 34051 <I>Winston Churchill</I> receives attention in the NRM workshops at York on 29 June 2011. The locomotive is part of the national collection.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2011]](/images/35000/35225.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Ex-LNWR motor coach open brake third no 28249 introduced on the Broad Street - Richmond (North London Line) services following electrification in 1916. Photographed at the NRM on 29 June 2011 during temporary relocation pending completion of structural alterations.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2011]](/images/37000/37995.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![<I>The First and the Last</I>. Nine years and 997 other BR Standard steam locomotives separate 7MT 4-6-2 70000 <I>Britannia</I> and 9F 2-10-0 92220 <I>Evening Star</I>. The two locos were displayed together at the NRM York shortly after 70000 was renamed by HRH The Prince of Wales at Wakefield Kirkgate, marking the 60th anniversary of when it hauled his grandfather's funeral train from Sandringham.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37479.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![<I> Ancient and relatively modern</I>. Prototype English Electric Type 3 D6700, which has now passed its 50th birthday, poses in a temporary annex building at the NRM York. Buffered up to the Class 37 is a replica Liverpool and Manchester Railway coach, the original of which would now be around 180 years old, and they make an interesting comparison. A link between these two vehicles is that the L&M Rly passed through Earlestown where D6700 was built at EE's Vulcan Foundry. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37556.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![The recent rebuild of 6229 <I>Duchess of Hamilton</I> with new streamlined casing has been well documented but is almost breathtaking when first seen at the NRM. The LMS Pacific is sited alongside its LNER A4 rival and is displayed with an LMS coach, also in red with gold stripes. The UK preservation movement is achieving things that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/02/2012]](/images/37000/37675.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![The signalbox track circuit diagram from Aberdeen South SB (marked as LMSR 1947) photographed at the NRM York on 13 March 2012 strapped to a series of crowd control barriers. This is just one of thousands of exhibits in the area known as 'The Warehouse'. This area is an absolute Aladdin's Cave of many real railway gems which may not have the same appeal to the general public as the larger exhibits in the adjacent Great Hall.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/03/2012]](/images/38000/38064.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![<I>'The UK's newest train.'</I> ScotRail unit 380007 on display at Railfest, York, on 10 June 2012.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/06/2012]](/images/39000/39159.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60008 <I>Dwight D Eisenhower</I> at the NRM, York, on 8 April. <br><br>[Colin Alexander 08/04/2013]](/images/42000/42652.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![<I>Flying Scotsman</I> in the NRM workshops at York on 8 April 2013. The locomotive is in wartime black livery and carrying the number 502 on the buffer beam (the number it carried in the early part of 1946). The latest overhaul has been the subject of much criticism - see recent news item.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 08/04/2013]](/images/42000/42679.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Bulleid Q1 0-6-0 no C1 on display in the National Railway Museum, York, on 8 April 2013.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 08/04/2013]](/images/42000/42695.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Preserved Gresley EM1 1500V dc locomotive 26020 (latterly BR class 76 no 76020) at the National Railway Museum, York, in April 2013.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 08/04/2013]](/images/43000/43313.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Co-located around the NRM turntable, ahead of the speed record breaking 75th anniversary, are repatriated 60008 <I>Dwight D Eisenhower</I> and resident 4468 (60022) <I>Mallard</I>. The now shiny BR Green of 60008 contrasts with the LNER Garter Blue of its sister. The other four surviving A4s will join them later this summer for the full reunion. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42827.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Another quality NRM restoration. 09017 is a fairly recent acquisition and arrived at the NRM in faded EWS livery but is now resplendent in maroon. The newly refurbished shunter is seen here on one of the sidings at the rear of the Great Hall, adjacent to the small exhibits collection. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/04/2013]](/images/43000/43033.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Cosmetically restored (and how) 4489 <I>Dominion of Canada</I>, complete with bell, standing in the Great Hall of the National Railway Museum, York, in June 2013. The locomotive was on loan from the Canadian Railway Museum, Montreal. [See image 30040]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/43000/43543.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Yorkshire Engine Co Class 02 diesel hydraulic 0-4-0 D2860 at the NRM, York in June 2013. One of 10 examples (out of a total class of 20) built for use in areas with a restricted loading gauge and/or tight curvature such as docks. Note the cab door at the rear, complete with railed <I>veranda</I>, more common in US designs. The locomotive was allocated to Fleetwood from new in 1961 and was eventually withdrawn from Allerton in December 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/43000/43980.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![NRM works pilot 09017 stabled inside the museum building on 4 June 2013. The locomotive was built at BR's Horwich Works in 1961 and originally carried the number D4105.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/44000/44625.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![F C Hibberd 'Planet' 4wDM <I>Ashover</I> (3307/1948) awaiting attention at the NRM in June 2013. Originally built for the Ashover Light Railway, the locomotive was acquired by the Ffestiniog in 1981 and used as works shunter at Boston Lodge. The currently out-of-service locomotive is to undergo a partial rebuild by a locally based volunteer group. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/44000/44975.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Great Northern Railway goods depot in the early part of the 20th century? The National Railway Museum, York, in the early 21st century, with ex-GNR J13 1247, forming part of a display. The locomotive, built by Sharp Stewart in 1899, was finally withdrawn from Kings Cross in 1959 as BR 68846 and became the first BR locomotive to be sold for preservation. [See image 17498]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/49000/49700.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![EE Type 4 D200 (aka 40122) receiving attention within 'The Depot' in the south yard of the National Railway Museum, York, in June 2013. [See image 18073] <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/49000/49730.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![The Port Carlisle <I>Dandy</I>, NBR No 1, photographed at the National Railway Museum in June 2013. The notice on the door reads <I>For 1st & 2nd class passengers only</I> (3rd class passengers occupied the outside benches). The first horse drawn Dandy ran from Drumburgh to Port Carlisle in 1861 and continued to operate until 1914 when steam took over. The branch closed completely in 1932. [See image 22515]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/50000/50150.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Ex-Southern Railway driving motor coach 8143, built by Metropolitan Vickers in 1925 and originally forming part of SR unit 1293. Photographed in June 2013 at the National Railway Museum, York.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2013]](/images/52000/52009.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![General view over the workshops at the National Railway Museum in June 2013. The locomotive hiding at the back, disguised in wartime black livery and carrying the number 502 is <I>Flying Scotsman</I>. [See image 26937] <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43345.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Cosmetically restored A4 Pacific no 60008 <I>Dwight D Eisenhower</I> on display at the National Railway Museum, York, on 6 June 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43463.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Memories of Riccarton South. Spotted in the 'warehouse' section of the NRM on 6 June. (The boards are stored vertically, two photographs have been combined and rotated through 90 degrees). [See image 23830] <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43521.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![<I>'Unusually quiet this morning Fred...'</I> The old 'box from Borough Market Junction finds at bit of peace at last in the north yard of the National Railway Museum, York, in June 2013. [See image 43904]<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43608.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Who needs computer games... those of a certain age will recall this item of platform furniture from the fifties and sixties, when amusements, chocolates, drinks, cigarettes, etc all came courtesy of The British Automatic Company Ltd, 14 Appold Street, EC2. Photographed in the 'warehouse' section of the NRM in June 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/43000/43670.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Diminutive 0-4-0ST <I>Teddy</I> in the yard at the NRM in June 2013. Built in Bristol by Peckett & Sons in 1942 (works no 2012) <I>Teddy</I> is believed to be the smallest working standard gauge steam locomotive in the UK. Originally used by the Royal Ordnance Corps in Poole, Dorset, the locomotive spent much of its life, including the war years, shunting wagons around the very tight yard there. <I>Teddy</I> is now regularly employed on mini tourist steam trips at the NRM. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/44000/44069.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![6000 <I>King George V</I> at the NRM in 2013. Shipped to the US in 1927 to feature in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad centenary celebrations, it received the bell, inscribed thus: 'This bell was presented to the locomotive by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co in commemoration of its centenary celebration September 24 - October 15, 1927'.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2013]](/images/44000/44248.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![The six surviving Gresley A4s lined up around the turntable in the Great Hall of the NRM on 13 July 2013 during <I>The Great Gathering</I>. <br><br>[John McIntyre 13/07/2013]](/images/43000/43776.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Numbers 7, 8 and 9 lined up together in the Great Hall of the NRM on 13 July 2013 sporting suitable headboards to commemorate <I>The Great Gathering</I>. [See image 43776]<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/07/2013]](/images/43000/43779.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![View from a train passing the National Railway Museum, York, on 4 February 2014. A4 Pacific 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> is in light steam, with the smoke-box door open, while West Coast Railway 37518, still carrying the Ian Riley name from its previous ownership, stands alongside. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 04/02/2014]](/images/46000/46215.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Former Post Office Underground Railway unit 809, on display at the National Railway Museum, York, in November 2014. The 2ft gauge system, built to move mail between sorting offices across London, operated between 1927 and 2003. The six and a half mile route between Paddington and Whitechapel originally served 8 stations, including the 23 acre Mount Pleasant Mail Centre on Farringdon Road. <br><br>[Colin Miller 11/11/2014]](/images/50000/50172.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![The beautiful Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No 33001, of 1942 at the National Railway Museum in York.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/11/2014]](/images/53000/53754.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Great Western 4-4-0 <I>City of Truro</I> being turned on the John Boyd and Co turntable at the National Railway museum on 17 February 2015.<br><br>[Brian Smith 17/02/2015]](/images/50000/50424.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![Don't you dare put your cigarette-ends in here! <br>
(Seen at the National Railway Museum, York).<br><br>[Colin Miller 16/09/2016]](/images/56000/56650.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![C1 (33001) Sole survivor of a powerful WWII austerity design by O. V. S. Bullied built in 1942 for the Southern Railway. The 0-6-0 is seen on the NRM turntable in the main hall on 8th May 2017.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 08/05/2017]](/images/59000/59337.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![A miniature Deltic at the National Railway museum's ride on railway, with two wee spectators looking fascinated.<br>
<br><br>[Crinan Dunbar 16/06/2017]](/images/59000/59881.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
![One horse power in the NRM. A 19th century Dandy Cart used to give horses a rest when heading down hill with wagons that the they had pulled uphill. <br><br>[John McIntyre 16/06/2017]](/images/62000/62795.jpg "National Railway Museum York")
