An AOC-designed exhibition building at the Locomotion railway museum in County Durham is on track for completion in time for the 100th anniversary of the Flying Scotsman after councillors approved the practices plans. The post AOC wins approval for County Durham railway museum expansion appeared first on The Architects Journal.
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AOC reveals its plans for National Railway Museum project in Durham. AOCs plans for a new £5.9 million collection building at the Locomotion railway museum in County Durham have gone out to public consultation.
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Head of Steam in Darlington and National Railway Museum disagree over where Locomotion No 1 should be kept. A row has broken out between rival railway museums over the ownership of the worlds first passenger steam locomotive. Darlington council wants Locomotion No 1 to stay in the town's Head of Steam Museum but the National Railway Museum (NRM), which owns the locomotive, wants to move it 10 miles away to Locomotion, its museum in Shildon.
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The National Railway Museum's site at Shildon is to have a new collection building that will house up to 50 rail vehicles, bringing the total at Locomotion to 120 and creating the UK's largest rail vehicle display. AOC Architecture has been appointed by the Science Museum Group to start work on a £4.5 million project ...
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