I recently joined a Cambridge University Railway Club trip to the National Railway Museum at York where we were kindly given a special tour of the museum with access to the engineering workshops and archives. As always, it was a wonderful experience seeing the best of British and worldwide railway engineering first hand. Coincidentally, the trip also provided an opportunity to look around the beautiful City of York itself and pay a visit to the Monk Bar!
Nice to see Banbury Connection's very own D8000 in real life!
Flying Scotsman herself was being prepared for a rail tour
Sir Nigel Gresley undergoing maintainence
Being guided around the workshops
Workshops from the viewing platform
Evening Star, the last steam locomotive manufactured by British Railways, stands majestically bedside the turntable.
A reflection of British Railway's 1950s Modernisation Plan!
Mallard, the world's fastest steam locomotive, in the Great Hall.
A Class 76 EM1 Electric Locomotive, a staple of Britain's first overhead electric mainline. Trips to the National Railway Museum can prove expensive if we decide to electrify the Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly section of Banbury Connections!
A 4-Sub and GWR Banana around the turntable.
Even the first generation of Eurostar's has made it to the museum!
A Crosscountry Class 220 Voyager from the museum's viewing platform. I'll know I'm getting old when one of these is found inside!
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