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National Railway Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (366 words) |
 | The NRM was established on its present site in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways Collection located in Clapham, and the York Railway Museum located elsewhere in the city, since then the collection has continued to grow. |
| All items of rolling stock exhibited either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built there, with the single exception of a Japanese "Series 0" Shinkansen bullet train leading vehicle, which was donated to the NRM by the JR West railway company in 2001 and which now forms part of an award-winning display. |
| Locomotion - the National Railway Museum in Shildon was opened in 2004 in County Durham due to lack of space at York to house a growing National Collection. |
| Sunniside Local History Society (1614 words) |
| In c1830 the area of north-west Durham between the River Tyne and the Pontop- Tanfield Beamish region some eight miles to the south was traversed by a number of wagonways engaged in moving coal from mines to riverside staiths. |
| The railway was closed and lifted west of Marley Hill in 1969. |
| The wagonways and the staiths are all consigned to history, with the exception of a small section of Tanfield railway acting as a scenic and historic journey for visitors and ending at Sunniside. |
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