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.
On the show — 6 mentions total
The National Rail Museum in York has a collection of 610 model railway vehicles all made by the same man, who was called James Peel Richards, 1902 to 99. He was incredibly devoted to detail and accuracy, and he thought he could get his models more accurate if he made them to a 33 millimetre gauge — the normal gauge for model trains is 32 millimetres.
from 479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal, 2023-05-19 at 00:19:03 · read transcript
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The collection is still growing but actually I should quickly say thank you to my friend Chris Valcoinen who is the associate archivist at the National Rail Museum who sent me loads of stuff for this absolutely brilliant but yeah the collection is still growing because a lot of his wagons weren't quite finished when he got there so he left them to other people to finish.
479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal, 2023-05-19 · listen
On display I'm really sad about that because what a hero what a great guy I love it the collection is still growing but actually I should quickly say thank you to my friend Chris Valcoyan who is the associate archivist at the National Rail Museum, who sent me loads of stuff for this.
No Such Thing As Fake Coal, 2023-05-18 · listen
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