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    Picture(s) of the week: a special day for the Shildon Works Band

    Photographic volunteer Anne McLean selects her favourite photos from our collection. There are 1000s more photos to browse – all free for personal...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Mar 21, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Station Hall: the finishing touches

    Since my last post,*when we made real inroads into the installation work in Station Hall, we’ve been focusing on getting the finishing touches...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Feb 19, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Bringing the Prototype HST back to life

    [IMG] January 2012, and the prototype High Speed Train power car is getting closer and closer to roaring back into life thanks to the hard work...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Feb 14, 2013, 3 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Picture of the week: cleaning the signals

    [IMG] It’s the turn of Belinda Morris, our Interpretation Manager, to choose a photo from*our 4000-strong online collection: I remember coming...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Feb 1, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Happy 100th birthday to a tiny railway with a big history

    [IMG] The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Signalling School – a model railway layout used to train real-life signallers *– recently celebrated its...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 29, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    The secret messages revealed by our A4 loco restorers

    [IMG] During the work we’ve been doing to cosmetically restore LNER Class A4 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower*since it was repatriated from the US,...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 25, 2013, 2 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Picture of the week: royals in Rochdale

    [IMG]Here’s another image from our ever-increasing online photo collection. This one’s*the choice of Ruth Leach, our*Interpretation Developer:...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 23, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    The locomotive that doesn’t exist

    [IMG] It’s probably obvious to most of my colleagues that I am more than a little fond of our amazing railway models collection. *And a less well...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 18, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    100 years of station master memories

    From the 19th century right up until recently, the station master was the key authority figure in the railway station, with responsibility for all...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 16, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Station Hall: a week of changes

    The changes to Station Hall came on in leaps and bounds last week. We installed a number of platform installations, graphics and collection items....
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 14, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Photos of the London Underground from 100 years ago

    In honour of the 150th birthday of the tube, we’ve dug out these eerie pictures of Euston underground station, taken in 1908 – a year after the...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 9, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    A visual history of Manchester Piccadilly

    [IMG]Poster, British Railways (London Midland Region), Manchester’s New Station, by Claude Buckle, 1960 As a regular visitor passing through...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 8, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Picture of the Week: a dinosaur

    [IMG] We’re continuing to celebrate the launch of our new railway photos browser, and now it’s my turn to choose a photo from the collection....
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Jan 3, 2013, 1 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Like father, like daughter: a railway family remembers

    Throughout the Station Stories project, a recurring theme has been people telling me that they worked on the railways because their parents,...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 31, 2012, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    A Christmas jigsaw for clumsy railway staff

    [IMG] As a last minute Christmas card, this object from the Museum’s small objects collection is pretty useful. The jigsaw was given by the Great...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 21, 2012, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Boiled AND roasted? Rediscovering an 1870s turkey dinner

    Here’s a letter from the Hackworth archive – our collection of papers from the family of*Timothy Hackworth, railway engineer and early railway...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 19, 2012, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    A sneak peek at the Station Hall workshop

    Although it might feel like the Station Hall redevelopment has been quiet of late, there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes. The...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 14, 2012, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Picture of the week: Liverpool 1881

    We’re continuing to celebrate the launch of our new*railway photos section.*We added 500 new photos last week, so we’re up to over*4000 Creative...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 13, 2012, 1 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    Malt by Export Express: Christmas Drinks Assured!

    This article from the 1959 British Railways Eastern Region staff magazine describes how the (then) largest*fully mechanised malting plant in...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 12, 2012, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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    The dog who was a signalman, and other canine Station Stories

    It’s not just humans who’ve got stories to tell. I’ve also gathered lots of station stories about man’s best friend. I’ve heard about lovable pups...
    Thread by: National Railway Museum, Dec 10, 2012, 0 replies, in forum: National Railway Museum
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