A 45 year old replica of the winner of the 1829 Rainhill Trials, Stephenson's Rocket. Seen at Beamish museum, with a period carriage and a rather ugly, modern DMU behind it.

200 years ago, In September 1825, Locomotion hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first locomotive to haul a passenger train on a public railway. It is now on displa... (more)

The first of the English Electric class Type 4 1-Co-Co1 no. D200 now preserved in the National Railway Museum's annexe at Locomotion, Shildon. The locomotive carries a reproduction headboard that ... (more)

Where it all started almost 200 years ago. This is the original World-famous Rocket locomotive. Winner of the 1829 Rainhill Trials. This 196 year old locomotive is on display at the National Rail... (more)

Inside "Locomotion" railway museum at Shildon we find electric loco E5001, HST 43102 and the beautifully styled "Deltic".

4-4-2 steamlocomotive # 251 of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) in the Shildon Locomotion museum, designed by H A Ivatt, built at Doncaster in 1902, withdrawn in 1947. It inaugurated the ‘big en... (more)

Gas turbine powered tilting train APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train Experimental) of British Rail, built in 1970 at Derby and used from 1972 to 1976 for testruns, in the Locomotion museum in Shildon... (more)

This is a 1980 built operational replica of the steamlocomotive "Sans Pareil", which original was built in 1829 by Timothy Hackworth for the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchest... (more)

2-4-0 steamlocomotive # 790 "Hardwicke" of the London and North Western Railway's "Precedent Class", built at Crewe in 1873. In 1892 it was virtually rebuilt as a new engine. In August 1895, # 790... (more)

The 4-6-0 # 5000 of the LMS (London, Midland and Scottish Railway) is a Stanier Class 5 built in 1935 in the LMS Crewe works. 842 locomotives of this class were built and # 5000 was choosen to rep... (more)

APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train Experimental) was the prototype of the Advanced Passenger Train tilting train unit. It was powered by gas turbines, the only multiple unit so powered that was used ... (more)

This is the original steamlocomotive "Sans Pareil" built in 1829, exhibited in the "Locomotion" museum in Shildon. It was built by Timothy Hackworth which took part in the 182... (more)

Furness Railway No 20 gives brake van rides along the short length of track in Shildon Railway museum

Bright sunshine at 1:15 p.m. illuminates the large crowd and two of the six A4 Pacifics on Friday at Shildon. Both of these locomotives and Bittern were steamed up.

Three of the six A4 Pacifics are lined up at Shildon on the Friday of the celebration, "The Great Goodbye". The engines are Sir Nigel Gresley, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bittern. The lighting was po... (more)