Plans have been revealed for a £5.9m collection building at the National Railway Museum's County Durham site. The low-energy use facility will give the Locomotion museum in Shildon extra space to ...

The world-renowned locomotive Rocket has arrived at a County Durham museum. The engine designed by George and Robert Stephenson in Newcastle in 1829 will go on display at Locomotion museum in Shildon ...

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A STEAM loco is heading to a North-East railway museum for a major restoration - as a carriage which bore the coffin of Winston Churchill prepares to leave. Staff at Locomotion: The National Railway ...

The New Hall has opened at Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham, making it Europe’s largest collection of historic rail vehicles. The museum hopes to attract 250,000 visitors a year to its display of ...

Dozens of rail vehicles have been assembled at a museum in County Durham for what curators claim will be the biggest display of its kind in Europe. Locomotion announced it has completed the movement ...

The museum is home to some of the most influential locomotives the railway industry has ever seen, with the original Stephenson’s Rocket, winner of the Rainhill Trials, Locomotion No.1, the first ...