2010

SE5951 : National Railway Museum

taken 14 years ago, near to York, England

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National Railway Museum
National Railway Museum
The entrance to the National Railway Museum, on Leeman Road.
The National Railway Museum (NRM)

The National Railway Museum in York displays a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 300 other items of rolling stock, virtually all of which either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built here.

The museum first opened in 1975, housed in the huge former steam locomotive depot at Leeman Road next to the East Coast Main Line, near York railway station and only 700m from York Minster. In 1990, the Station Hall opened in York’s former railway goods depot across Leeman Road, nearly doubling the size of the museum in the process. The former diesel depot adjacent to the Great Hall was added as a store and in 1999 this was rebuilt to become “The Works”, providing public access to the Museum’s collections stores and workshops and a viewing gallery overlooking York Station. Today, the NRM is one of Britain’s busiest museums and is possibly the most popular railway museum in the world, attracting 931,000 visitors in 2013 LinkExternal link .


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Geographical Context: Railways City, Town centre Educational sites Place: York Category: Railway museum other tags: National Railway Museum NRM Tourist Attraction Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Articles: · Descriptive words on OS maps Automatic Clusters: · Railway [716] · National Railway Museum [347] Title Clusters: · National Railway Museum [4] ·
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SE5951, 2766 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 4 April, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 7 April, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 593 519 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:57.6276N 1:5.8474W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 593 519
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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