National Rail Museum
About National Rail Museum
The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York, England, forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant railway vehicles such as Mallard, a Stirling 'Single', Duchess of Hamilton and a Japanese bullet train. In addition, the National Railway Museum holds a diverse collection of other objects, from a household recipe book used in George Stephenson's house to film showing a "never-stop railway" developed for the British Empire Exhibition. It has won many awards, including the European Museum of the Year Award in 2001.
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The National Railway Museum has enormous working scale models of steam trains, a foot wide and several feet long, built to check that the designs worked.
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The National Railway Museum holds the world's largest collection of model trains, which doesn't fit on standard model train tracks.
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