Date: 22/09/2014

A tourist attraction in County Durham is celebrating its 10th birthday. Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon, is playing host to a number of guest steam locomotives from around the UK to mark the occasion over the weekend. When it opened, visitor expectations were set at about 60,000 a year, but a decade on it attracts more than 200,000 people annually. [From Mark Bartlett]

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Steam museum celebrates anniversary

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Locomotion, the National Railway Museum at Shildon, celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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