Following last week's incredible scenes in Shildon celebrating the 200th anniversary of Locomotion No.1's famous run on the S&DR, join us on Sunday for a special film exploring the world's first railway town.
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We know some of you love a 225, so here's one spearing out of York in 1991.
A much cleverer way of saying this would've been Class 91 in '91...
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50 years of NRM. Centuries of engineering brilliance.
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This Sunday we are celebrating two momentous occasions. It's our museum's 50th birthday and our 50th episode of Curator with a Camera! Join in the fun as we explore the incredible Ellerman Lines, another brilliant Bulleid creation which has been sectioned to reveal how a steam engine works.
Huge thanks to all of you for joining us on YouTube, we love reading your comments!
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These B&W photographs show steam locomotives around the turntable in York Motive Power Depot—also known as York engine shed—about 1950.
In 1975, York engine shed became Great Hall, part of the brand-new National Railway Museum. The colour photographs show the turntable in Great Hall at various stages in its life. It's still a visitor favourite 50 years later—and very useful for moving vehicles!
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Freight power.
In these photos from 1990, a double-header of Class 37s prepares to haul a hefty consignment of wagons (most likely containing limestone) from Redmire Quarry in North Yorkshire. With a combined peak output of 3,500hp and 110,000lb-ft of torque, the 37s packed some serious grunt. Leading loco 37505 first operated in 1961.
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Guess the car.
(We'll get back to trains tomorrow.)
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This Sunday we'll take you on board the Paddle Steamer Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. Seeing its three-crank steam engine in action is simply stunning. Waverley was operated by the LNER from its debut in 1947 until it went into preservation in the 1970s. This story's not to be missed—see you on Sunday!
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Nostalgia time. Busy stations!
1. c1880. Commuters are intrigued by a photographer while waiting for a workman's train. These affordably priced trains ran into large towns in the early morning and returned in the evening. They were implemented by Act of Parliament so that workers displaced by the construction of the railways could still reach their place of work.
2. June 1949. Passengers leave the 09.00 train en masse at Fenchurch Street station, London—the city's smallest terminus. By the 1950s the station handled 175 trains a day, carrying about 38,000 passengers. Commuter traffic increased in the 1960s following electrification of the line.
3. August 1927. Saturday crowds board a train for Blackpool on platform 12 at Manchester Victoria station. Only a few have stayed still long enough to register on the negative. Manchester Victoria was the principal station on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway system. Train services were particularly busy over the August Bank Holiday weekend when railway companies ran special excursion services. When this photograph was taken in 1927 the LYR lines had become part of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway and the tank locomotive passing through the station on the left carries the LMS livery. Note the sign urging passengers to have their "Tickets and Contracts Ready"—"Contracts" was how the LYR and some other companies referred to what are now known as season tickets.
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Explore over 200 years of history and find out how railways shaped our world through ingenuity and engineering brilliance. Join us on YouTube to see what goes on behind the scenes and for our Curator with a Camera series, which takes you on a detailed tour of incredible locomotives, carriages and other railway-related objects at the National Railway Museum in York, England, and Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham, England.