The Works National Railway Museum, York

Abstract

The National Railway Museum in York is the world's largest railway museum. Its collections include 103 locomotives and 177 other items of rolling stock, 3,300 models, 6,500 items of silver and crockery, more than 300 nameplates, 350,000 tickets, 1,800 buttons, 350,000 engineering drawings, 7,500 posters, 200 original works of art, and 1.4 million photographic negatives. It exhibits not only trains and locomotives but also corresponding system components, providing a good context for the main attractions, such as the Royal Trains and the locomotive collection. It explains the course of British railway history from its origins to modern train systems such as the Eurostar. In July 1999, the museum opened a new extension housing The Works, a permanent exhibit divided into three main sections: workshop, working railway, and warehouse.