National Railway Museum Collection

York station, 1953. A member of the station staff checking a boys platform ticket. The man is wearing an LNER cap, although by this time he worked for the nationalised British Railways

The Oaks, Bolton, London Midland and Scottish Railway (formerly Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
The Oaks station, Bolton, London Midland and Scottish Railway (formerly Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway), 4 August 1933

York, locomotive signal box in locomotive yard
Signal box in York locomotive yard, with a signal gantry in the foreground

Liverpool Street station, Great Eastern Railway. 1 June 1920. Platform number 1

Saffron Walden railway sidings, looking east from Debden Road overbridge. At top left is the Great Eastern public house, with a Great Eastern Railway office

Sudbury station goods yard, forming part of original terminal station, in right background, passenger station on sharp curve beyond footbridge carrying public footpath over running lines

Class 55 DELTIC. 5 November 1981
Class 55 Deltic 55002 The Kings Own Light Infantry outside York station with York Minster in the background, 5 November 1981

York station, North Eastern Railway, August 1906
York station, North Eastern Railway. Looking north inside the station along the nearly empty main southbound platform 4, showing the roof and ironwork with suspended gas lamps. August 1906

York, Holgate Bridge, London and North Eastern Railway. 1937. At Holgate bridge, a signal gantry stands high above the tracks on the approach into York station

York, North Eastern Railway. View of the grand office building for the North Eastern Railway headquarters, later used by the LNER and British Railways. It is now a hotel

London Victoria station, Southern Railway, 1930s
London Victoria station, Southern Railway. View across the concourse along platforms 9 and 10, very crowded at rush hour, about 1938. At the end of the platform is a W H Smith bookstall

London Paddington station, Great Western Railway, 1840
London Paddington station, Great Western Railway at night. Watercolour of the original station in 1840. Passengers are boarding trains, some of them carrying trunks

Liverpool Street station, Great Eastern Railway. 9 June 1920. View of the platforms and station clock

Kings Cross station, London, Great Northern Railway. View of tracks 6 to 10, with several passenger carriages in view. There is a height gauge over the centre track

Kings Cross station, London, British Railways, c1949-1950
Kings Cross station, London, British Railways. View along the busy platform 10, with the 10.00 service to Edinburgh (the Flying Scotsman) preparing for departure. c1949-50

York station, North Eastern Railway, about 1880. View along the curving platform with a waiting passenger train

View west from South Road at Saffron Walden Station. Unloading bank on left run-round loop centre and branch line on right. Beyond the station canopy is the signal box. Station Road on right

York station, London & North Eastern Railway, about 1951
York station, London & North Eastern Railway. Looking north from the footbridge 1951ja A southbound train is arriving at platform 8 with A2 class 4-6-2 locomotive Edward Thompson

Liverpool Exchange station, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. View of the 2.10 Liverpool-Hull train preparing to depart, with people standing on the platform. 21 September 1909

Interior of Locomotion, The National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

York station, engine sheds and locomotive yards, London & North Eastern Railway. Detailed plan of the layout of tracks and buildings, probably in the 1920s

View east from South Road at Saffron Walden station. Left running line. Branch train in head shunt adjacent to coaling stage, centre right

York station, June 1987. Platforms 10 and 11, showing an terminated intercity train and a Huddersfield bound Class 144 and Class 150 coupled together

Hellifield Station, British Rail, 21 September 1984. Showing the boarded up station buildings and platforms of this still functioning Settle to Carlisle line station

York North Motive Power Depot. North Eastern Railway locomotive 2-2-4T no. 1679

York Carriage and Wagon Works. Interior view of the carriage building shop, with six Travelling Post Office carriages under construction. 1933

York station, London & North Eastern Railway. View from the south of a train leaving the station. The locomotive is ex-North Eastern Railway class R 4-4-0 no

York North locomotive depot, London & North Eastern Railway, 29 April 1942
York North locomotive depot, London & North Eastern Railway. A4 locomotive 4-6-2 no

London Victoria station, British Railways, January 1949
London Victoria station, British Railway. Part of the concourse showing the tea room in the central section of the station. 25 January 1949

Kings Cross station, British Railways, c1950s. The luxury Queen of Scots Pullman train arriving into Kings Cross station, hauled by a Class A3 engine, built by the London & North Eastern Railway

Kings Cross station, London, British Rail, January 1988
Kings Cross station, London, British Rail. View across the platforms with four InterCity 125 high speed train locomotives in view. 7 January 1988

Huntingdon station, view looking west from platform, 1910. The Great Northern & Great Eastern Railway joined the Great Northern Railway main line at this point

Middleton station, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. View of the station, looking north, with a goods train on the upper level. 1 November 1920

Looking north-west from loading bank to goods shed and goods enquiry office at Saffron Walden Station. Cattle wagon and vent van in cattle dock

View looking east towards Braintree at Dunmow Station about 1911. Water tank in foreground obscuring station building. The stationmasters house is beyond

The Oaks station, Bolton, London Midland and Scottish Railway (formerly Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway), near a proposed site for a pump, 4 August 1933

The Oaks station, Bolton, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, about 1902. View of the station, between Bolton and Bromley Cross, looking towards Bolton

Liverpool Exchange station, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. View of the concourse from the end of platform 3

Passenger station is in background, Fosters mill is behind. The storage sidings in the foreground contain various 10 ton goods brake vans, a travelling gas tank and 6 wheeled carriage stock on left

Ely North Junction, 1911, signal box on the right. Past the house the Kings Lynn main line diverges left from the Norwich line. On the left the March line joins the main line into Ely

York station, North Eastern Railway, c1910
York station, North Eastern Railway. View of the station from platform 4, showing petrol electric railcar no. 317D at platform 5 after working the 08.52 Cawood-Selby-York service (arriving at 09.49)

Huntingdon station, taken looking North West from West side of Great Northern Railway main line. GNR station left distance, joint line junction centre and GNR south signal box

View north from Bishops Stortford station. Granary on the left; Great Eastern Railway van in the siding. Hockerill Street overbridge in the distance. Dunmow line diverged beyong the building

Shipley station, British Rail, July 1985
Shipley station, British Rail. The main station entrance. July 1985

Huntingdon station, Great Northern and Great Eastern Railwaylocomotive shed on left
Huntingdon station, Great Northern and Great Eastern Railway locomotive shed on left. GNR somersault signal with back-to-back up and down line arms on same post in the foreground

Manchester Exchange station, London Midland and Scottish Railway (formerly London and North Western Railway). View of the station entrance. May 1927

Gladstone Dock station (Liverpool), Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. View of the entrance to the station, with a large arched sign

View looking east at Dunmow railway station yard, about 1911

Liverpool Exchange station, London Midland and Scottish Railway (formerly Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway). Interior of the station showing the times, stations to and times of electric train services

Liverpool North Mersey goods depot, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, about 1903. View of the travelling crane for goods to be transferred from train to ship and vice versa

Ely North Junction signal box at left, view looking south. The March line joins the main line to Ely from the right. The Ely avoiding line emerges from behind fruit vans on storage sidings

Colchester, south end of the station looking towards London. Main lines in foreground, line into bay platforms at bottom left

Looking south from Bishops Stortford station, with the granary siding on right. Station Road overbridge centre right. North signal box through bridge. Left track Dunmow line. Up-and-down main centre

View west over Dunmow station railway yard and goods shed. There is a motor vehicle in the yard

Locomotion No. 1 BB057004
BANK TOP RAILWAY STATION, DARLINGTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. Locomotion No. 1 on display. Ordered for the Stockton and Darlington Railway and built in 1825 by George and Robert Stephenson

Derwent steam locomotive BB057005
BANK TOP RAILWAY STATION, DARLINGTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE. The Derwent steam locomotive on display. Built for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1845 by William and Alfred Kitching

England, Yorkshire, York, The National Railway Museum, Statue of George Stephenson

City of York aerial view, 10 June 1951. View of the city looking north with train station at the bottom showing the minster and Rivers Ouse and Foss

York station, British Railways, July 1964
York station, British Railways.A large crowd of schoolchildren from Aberystwyth Schools on the platform as their train arrives. July 1964

York station, the prototype Deltic diesel locomotive with a steam train

Havant station, London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, 1947
Havant station, London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. General view of the station from the London end, 1947

York locomotive yard signal box, North Eastern Railway
York Locomotive Yard signal box, North Eastern Railway. View of the signal box from across the tracks, with several staff posing on the balcony and the tracks, about 1910

Paddington, Great Western Royal Hotel, designed by Philip Hardwick and erected in 1850-1852

London Bridge station, British Railways, c1948. View from Borough Market Junction, looking down on an overbridge and shops

Kings Cross station, departure of the Coronation service, 1937
Kings Cross station, Great Northern Railway. Looking into the station

Huntingdon engine shed, 1910. View looking north west towards a 50ft turntable, shed to right

Oldham Road goods depot, Manchester. The former Manchester and Leeds Railway offices building, used as a goods depot by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, about 1910

View looking east at Bury St Edmunds station in about 1910. In the foreground are piles of coal for steam engines, and there are locomotives in the shed. In the distance are railway sidings

Bury St Edmunds engine shed. View looking east, locomotive shed to left and maltings beyond. The yard signal box is at centre and goods yard on right

Midland Railway Class 2, 4-4-0 (drawing no 08-7651)

Midland Railway Class 3, 4-4-0 (drawing no 08-7560)

Midland Railway Class 4, 4-4-0 (drawing no 07-7161)

Midland Railway Class 2, 4-4-0 (drawing no 09-7885)

View of Goods Junction signal box. Private siding passes behind signal box to wharf on River Stour. Gated siding in foreground serves Allens lime works

Coote & Warrens coal depot at the south end of the station on the down side. It contains covered coal sheds and stacked coal on open allotments. At the extreme right are GER sidings

The Opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway September 15th 1830 with the Moorish Arch at Edge Hill as it appeared on that day

York station, January 1987. Work men cutting back the platform canopy and roof prior to electrification of the east coast main line

York station, January 1985. A snow spattered station building

York station, 6 Jan 1982. A Class 47 locomotive pulls out of a snow covered York

Shipley station, British Rail, August 1987. Shipley to Bingley junction signal box, showing the stations V-shaped configuration

York Carriage and Wagon Works, 1900s
York Carriage and Wagon Works. Interior view along the works, with numerous workers and carriages in various stages of construction. 1900s

Watson Street, York. The Locomotive pub at the corner of Watson Street and Watson Terrace near Holgate Bridge, 1984

London Victoria station, British Rail, November 1985
London Victoria station, British Rail. View of the concourse on the Brighton side of the station, showing the large train departures board above the entrances to platforms 9 to 12. November 1985

London Victoria station, Southern Railway, 1940
London Victoria station, Southern Railway. View of the station forecourt with buses and taxis. 1940

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The National Railway Museum takes you on a captivating journey through the rich history of railways, showcasing iconic moments and landmarks that shaped the industry. Step back in time to Saffron Walden railway sidings, as you gaze east from Debden Road overbridge, immersing yourself in the bustling atmosphere of Class 55 DELTIC on a crisp November day in 1981. Venturing further into the exhibit, York's North Eastern Railway greets you with its grandeur and elegance. Marvel at Liverpool Street station's Great Eastern Railway captured beautifully on June 1st, 1920, where passengers embarked on their adventures amidst an era of change and progress. As you wander through London Victoria station's Southern Railway scene from the glamorous 1930s, be transported to an age when travel became synonymous with style and sophistication. The enchantment continues at London Paddington station; witness its inception in 1840 by the Great Western Railway – a testament to engineering brilliance standing tall for centuries. York station beckons once more with its nostalgic charm; relive August 1906 when it was abuzz with life under North Eastern Railway's watchful eye. Holgate Bridge stands proud against the skyline as part of London and North Eastern Railway's legacy dating back to 1937 – an architectural masterpiece frozen in time. Kings Cross station emerges next, first as a hub for Great Northern Railway then transitioning into British Railways' domain around c1949-1950. Picture yourself amidst bustling platforms where dreams were set in motion and farewells were bid beneath towering arches that witnessed countless journeys unfold. Finally, cast your eyes upon South Road at Saffron Walden Station; observe unloading banks on your left while run-round loops take center stage - remnants of an era when railroads connected communities far and wide. At the National Railway Museum, these glimpses into our past come alive through meticulously preserved artifacts and captivating stories.