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Category Archives: Small object collections
Happy 100th birthday to a tiny railway with a big history
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Signalling School – a model railway layout used to train real-life signallers – recently celebrated its 100th birthday with a three-day have-a go event here at the museum. On Friday, our director Paul Kirkman (below, … Continue reading
Posted in Small object collections
Tagged history, lancashire and yorkshire, rail, railway, signalling, signalling school, trains
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A Christmas jigsaw for clumsy railway staff
As a last minute Christmas card, this object from the Museum’s small objects collection is pretty useful. The jigsaw was given by the Great Western Railway around 1935 as a Christmas present to employees, as a way of reminding them to … Continue reading
The piece of plastic that keeps the rail network running
This dispatch baton, recently donated to the museum, may be a familiar sight to many of you. It is usually wielded by a member of platform staff at larger stations to signal that a train is ready to leave If … Continue reading
Posted in Small object collections
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A Charles II-era gold coin uncovered
Over the past month, the Knowledge & Collections department has been host to Elanor Henry, a member of the Museum and Artefacts Studies Course at the University of Durham. Elanor’s main aim was to gain firsthand experience working in a … Continue reading
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The secret life of a museum exhibit
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway signalling school layout (L&Y) was built in 1912 to teach railway workers the art of signalling trains. You might imagine that this training aid from the Edwardian age would have no place on the 21st … Continue reading
Posted in Small object collections
Tagged Lancashire &Yorkshire Railway, school, signalling, teaching
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Station Hall redevelopment starts
I’m Joe Savage, an Interpretation Manager at the National Railway Museum. I work with the exhibitions team and I am always on the lookout for fun ways of interpreting our spectacular objects (as well as the objects that are less … Continue reading
If you’re sick on the train . . .
This is something I had to share with you. People often complain of air, car or sea sickness, but train sickness is a less widely reported phenomenon. It does affect a lot of people though, especially with modern tilting trains. … Continue reading
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A warning to trainspotters
While looking through one of the railway auction house catalogues, I was intrigued when I came across this sign from the old Nine Elms locomotive depot in South London. We had to have it. For a museum devoted to railways, we … Continue reading
