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Railway Museum in York is in the British National research and Industrial Museum. It presents the history of the development of Railways and their impact on the development of society as a whole. The Museum has a number of prestigious awards, including the "European Museum of the year" 2001.

The Museum exhibits over 300 pieces of rolling stock, including over 100 locomotives. All of them either went on the roads of great Britain or were built here. Besides these, hundreds of thousands of exhibits are available to visitors on the area of 8 hectares. It is the largest Museum of its kind in the UK.

History of rail transport are presented here with various types of locomotives and wagons. There is in this Museum and their Champions: train "the flying Scotsman" is the train that goes the longest without changing their route and names. It runs from 1862 on the route from London to Edinburgh. The fastest locomotive - locomotive class A4 No. 4468 "Mallard" on 3 July 1938 on the slight slope overclocked up to speed 202, 7 km/h. Here you can see the cars, which traveled the Queen from Victoria to Elizabeth II.

The Museum also features an extensive collection of signaling equipment, posters and drawings, tickets, labels, forms of railwaymen, hours, drawings, as well as a huge amount of running model trains. Model ring railway works in the Museum since 1982, and who knows who gets the Museum more fun - the adults or the children.

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National railway Museum