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🚂 As Flying Scotsman travelled along the @nymr this morning, our colleagues at @networkrail were capturing these STUNNING images of it hauling the Royal Train. 😍 Just take a look at some of them. 📸 © Network Rail
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We are sad to hear of the death of renowned designer, Sir Kenneth Grange, famous for his design of the iconic shape and livery of High Speed Train (HST). Among many other objects in the Science Museum Group collection is the first production HST power car which bears his name. He
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British Rail throwing shade at the airline industry back in '85!. 📷 'How to Improve a Plane', British Rail poster, 1985.
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🚂 Today we’re celebrating the 100th birthday of Flying Scotsman! . We’ll bring you all the updates you’ll need from a special event so you can join us from wherever you are. #FlyingScotsman100
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🖌 Flying Scotsman was specially prepared: its roof painted white and new lamps fitted, as is tradition for the Royal Train. 🤝 King Charles III also greeted the longstanding volunteers who help maintain #NYMR and unveiled a plaque to mark 50 years since its official opening.
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🚂 It’s been a special event to officially launch the centenary of a special locomotive here at Edinburgh Waverley. Thank you to everyone who has joined us here or via Twitter. But for now, here’s Flying Scotsman departing platform 2 (if you can see it!). #FlyingScotsman100
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🏳️🌈 Happy Pride month! . As our Open For All value suggests, our museum is for all people, no matter who you are. 🛤 There's also an intertwined history of the railways and the queer community. 🖱 Read more about that here:
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#OnThisDay in 1923, 4472 ‘Flying Scotsman’ entered passenger service. 📽️ 100 years on, celebrate the world’s most famous steam locomotive with a special episode of Curator with a Camera, exploring its fascinating engineering secrets. #FlyingScotsman100 .
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#OnThisDay in 1938 A4 steam locomotive 'Mallard' reached a speed of 126mph - breaking the world speed record for steam traction. A record it holds to this day!
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👑 This morning, Flying Scotsman hauled the #RoyalTrain on the latest stage of its centenary tour. 🚂 Following a journey from Grosmont to Pickering on the historic @nymr, His Majesty The King met Judith McNicol, our Director, and @LordPeterHendy, Chair of @networkrail.
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🚂 Flying Scotsman will, today, be operated by an all-female crew at @eastlancsrly to celebrate #IWD2023. 🌍 Throughout the day, we’ll be showing some of the influential women who have impacted the railways across the world. #EmbraceEquity #FlyingScotsman100
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We can confirm that steam locomotive Flying Scotsman has been involved in a shunting incident at Aviemore Station. We will provide further information once more details are known.
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Asquith Xavier successfully lobbied to remove a colour bar at Euston Station, which barred Black people from customer-facing roles. It was #OnThisDay in 1966 that British Railways announced an end to the discriminatory practice at Euston, with other stations following.
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🚂 Flying Scotsman pulls away from Bury Bolton St station on the second of two special trips for school children from the local area. #FlyingScotsman100
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Happy birthday, Shinkansen! . It's the 55th anniversary of the first Japanese bullet train service today. This photo shows our Shinkansen being unloaded. #OnThisDay #OTD
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🚂 There's a new resident in Great Hall!. For the first time in over 20 years, Boxhill takes pride of place on the turntable in Great Hall. 📸 London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 'Boxhill', Great Hall
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We're happy to announce that we will be reopening on Tuesday 4 August. (1/3)
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📣 New dates added in October for Scotland mainline steam tours, hauled by the iconic Flying Scotsman. As part of it's 100th birthday celebrations, the public still have the chance to ride behind Flying Scotsman with these extra dates from 7 - 10 October 2023. 🎟 Book now
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🔙 #OnThisDay in 1938, 'Mallard' set a new world speed record for a steam locomotive. Driver Joe Duddington and Fireman Thomas Bray reached 126mph at Stoke Bank, a record that still stands to this day. 📸 A4 Class 'Mallard' ahead of its record-breaking run, H M Hoather
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We have a treat for you all this Friday morning! A rare look inside our record breaker, Mallard.
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No, it's not levitation! It's a centre of gravity test. Locomotives had to go under various trials and tests to ensure they were rail worthy. This stunning photo was taken at Doncaster Works. The loco is LNER No. 2598 "Blenheim".
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Oh, and if you’ve never seen the advert…. Masterpiece.
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#OnThisDay in 1945 three railway engines, Edward, Gordon and Henry, changed the FACE of the railways. When the first book of Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series, 'The Three Railway Engines' was published.
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🚂 We’re here at King’s Cross Station as we kickstart Flying Scotsman’s centenary programme of events, and celebrate the station’s 170th birthday. 📲 Follow us on Twitter to see what’s going on!. #FlyingScotsman100 #170KingsCross
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This 1969 piece by Harry Stevens is simply gorgeous.
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Happy birthday, Mallard! The world's fastest steam engine was completed in 1938 at Doncaster Works. #OTD #OnThisDay
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🧵 SAFETY THREAD:. 🚂 Flying Scotsman hauls the first of a number of UK mainline tours today as it hauls ‘The Royal Duchy’. ❌ If you are planning to see it along any part of the route, ensure that you DO NOT trespass on the railway, under any circumstances.
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100 years of a locomotive legend. 🎉 Celebrate the centenary year of Flying Scotsman, the world's most famous steam locomotive, with us. Find details of a special programme of activities here: 📽️ Watch the trailer below!. #FlyingScotsman100
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Is it a bus?! Is it a train?!. NO! It's a road rail (Ro-Rail) coach on test, on the Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead branch line in 1931.
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We had an unexpected shower of snow earlier, which made for an excellent #FlyingScotsman photo opportunity!
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😅 Well it's been an exciting few days for Flying Scotsman's centenary programme!. 🌉 Yesterday, the 100 year old loco crossed the famous Forth Bridge on its way from @NetworkRailEDB to Aberdeen, as part of its centenary weekender. 📸 Steve Morgan
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Flying Scotsman Update: We are delighted to announce that Northern Steam will be the new custodian to maintain and operate Flying Scotsman. While the locomotive is owned by the National Railway Museum, the new custodian will manage day-to-day operations and ensure Flying Scotsman
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A loco that pioneered the railways alongside a loco that changed Britain's railways forever. 📸 Class 43 HST 43036 and replica 'Rocket', c1980s (© Manchester Daily Express / SSPL)
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🎉 Happy Birthday to Flying Scotsman!. It was on this day in 1923, the iconic steam locomotive first entered service. Don’t forget you can see Flying Scotsman on display at the museum until summer!. 🎟 Book free admission tickets:
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Happy birthday to us,.Happy birthday to us,.Happy birthday to the greatest museum in the world,.Happy birthday to us!. Look how cute we were when we opened in 1975. #OTD #OnThisDay
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IN 1934, FLYING SCOTSMAN WAS THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE TO OFFICIALLY REACH 100MPH, BUT IT'S SAID THAT CITY OF TRURO REACHED THIS 30 YEARS EARLIER. THING IS, CITY OF TRURO WAS ONLY BEING MEASURED BY A STOPWATCH AND BY COUNTING MILE POSTS WHEREAS SCOTSMAN HAD A DYNAMOMETER CAR.
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"Which signal do I need to follow?". "Erm, yes.". 📸 Signalling at London St Pancras Station, 1912
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🎨 Masterpiece. ‘On Early Shift’, BR poster, 1948 (© Cuneo Fine Arts / NRM / SSPL)
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@ShumBaloo Hello there, nowhere in our post does it suggest Stirling Single is anything other than a locomotive. If rainbow coloured lights under a turntable and us showing our solidarity and support to ALL communities upsets you, then we don’t believe any problem lies with us.
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The real secret to Duchess of Hamilton's speed. the racing stripes.
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#OnThisDay in 1948 passengers disembarked from the 'Empire Windrush'. Over 22 years, nearly half a million people moved from the Caribbean to Britain. Thousands had been actively recruited by British Railways and London Transport. Photo from Daily Herald Archive. #WindrushDay
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Did you know? In 1899 the Midland Railway ordered 40 locomotives from Pennsylvania because their works were at full capacity. Burnham, Williams & Co (later known as the Baldwin Locomotive Company), built this loco in Philadelphia and shipped it to the UK.
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Happy birthday, Mallard!. Here's the loco passing Copenhagen Signal Box at King's Cross alongside Dominion of Canada.
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Here's a rare sight! You can see inside the streamlined 'nose' of Mallard.
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Today would have been Sir Nigel Gresley's 145th birthday. Pictured here next to his namesake A4 Pacific No 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' in 1938
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🔔 DIIING-DOOONG, that's a fiiiine looking loco. 🤔 Are you 'Team Streamlining' or 'Team No-Streamlining'?. (We're streamlining all the way! 🤭). 📸 Lowering the bell onto the 'Coronation Scot', 9 January 1939.
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Our amazing Front of House team ahead of York Pride Parade today! 🏳️🌈
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What better way to celebrate #TogetherMW than remembering one of the greatest gatherings in recent years!. You know the one, when six A4s were chilling out in the Great Hall. #MuseumWeek #MuseumWeek2020
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📣 This October half term, the world's most famous locomotive, Flying Scotsman, will be back at the National Railway Museum – this time on the turntable in Great Hall for a 360-degree view!. This is the final chance to see Flying Scotsman at the museum during its centenary year!
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What could be more TRAINmendous than the world's fastest steam locomotive EVER? CALLED MALLARD???. #CuratorBattle #TremendousTransport @YorkshireMuseum
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📣 From this week (w/c 12 June) the museum will return to permanent SEVEN-DAY OPENING! . 🤩 We will now be open every day, 10.00-17.00 for you to experience legends of the railway world, try our incredible Flying Scotsman VR, and much more. 🖱️
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🔙 On this day in 1972, the APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train Experimental) made its first trial run from Derby to Duffield. Powered by its very futuristic (for 50 years ago!) gas turbines, the locomotive never formed a passenger service. What could've been. 😅
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🧵 THREAD (1/6). 🛤️ In the 1990s, British Rail was dismantled into over 100 privately owned companies. 🎤 Britain’s Railways All Change is a collection of over 170 oral recordings of personal recollections of people in the privatisation process. 👇 More below!
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The Shinkansen power car was the first rail vehicle built and operated outside of Britain to enter the National Collection. It tells the story of a railway which shaped the future for railways around the world. 📷Pictured arriving in Southampton in 2001
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This year marks the centenary of the birth of Asquith Xavier. His story is one of a man whose determination helped end the railway colour bar, which in turn contributed towards changing race laws in Britain and stands today as a key episode in Britain’s multicultural story.
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🪄 Sometimes I wonder what Harry Potter would've thought if the Hogwarts Express was a 156. 📸 Class 156 crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct, 1997
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🤔 What's your favourite loco on display at the NRM?. I'll go first. 😍. 📸 92220 Evening Star, Great Hall turntable
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#Onthisday in 1938 Mallard broke the steam locomotive world speed record at 126 mph. To this day the record remains officially unbeaten.
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Meet Cock o the North, a P2 class engine. We have nothing witty to say. 📷 1934
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🌈 We are delighted to announce that we are launching a new research project: People, Pride and Progress. 🎙 Funded by @HeritageFundUK, it will record the voices of up to 70 railway workers from the LGBTQ+ community for the first time. 🖱 More here:
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It's been two years since the incredible Four Trains event, which celebrated the past, present and future of the East Coast Mainline. #OTD #OnThisDay #FlyingScotsman . Photo credit: Hazel Palmer
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Eerie, but beautiful! . A Deltic in the glow of the lights at York station.
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🎄 It's December. Christmas is definitely coming. 📸 Christmas parcels at Liverpool Street station, 1959
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😆 When the apprentice is being evaluated by the trainer. 📸 Eurostar and Golden Arrow, Waterloo Station, 1999 (NRM / SPPL)
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This photo was taken by a 14-year-old in 1894. The photographer was George Tod, a schoolboy who shot and developed photos of locomotives as a hobby.
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What the future looked like, in 1975. APT-E and HST Prototype at Swindon Station, August 1975.
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👻 Flying Scotsman sorting its Halloween costume early this year. 📸 Flying Scotsman sheeted for its journey to the British Empire Exhibition, 1924
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🗺 There's just something about a tiled map. Admin spotted this one still on display at an operational station (albeit also served by a heritage line!). 🧐 Can you guess where it is?. 📸 NER Tiled Map
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Flying Scotsman reached 100mph on this day in 1934. The driver, Bill Sparshatt (left), said “If we hit anything today, we’ll hit it hard”.
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Yeah it’s been great to have lots of media down today, but we’ve just had the goodest of good boys posing for a picture🥰. PD Axel, an explosives dog from @BTPDogs, couldn’t miss his photo op!🤩. #FlyingScotsman100
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Why paint 'Flying Scotsman' on a carriage roof?. It was done in preparation for a radio test in 1932 between the train and a plane. The large letters enabled the plane to spot it from the air.
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🥳 Happy birthday to @Eurostar journeys!. #OnThisDay in 1994, the first fare-paying customers departed London Waterloo bound for Paris. The first train left bang on time. 📸 Eurostar train at London Waterloo station
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#OnThisDay in 1934, Flying Scotsman made history. It became the first steam locomotive to (officially!) reach 100mph. This photo was taken at Kings Cross right after the run. You can see the driver, Bill Sparshatt and the fireman, R Webster, alongside Nigel Gresley.
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Step back in time and experience the morning of 3 July 1938 with these stunning images of Mallard's record breaking speed run. #OnThisDay.
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🏁 Race! 🏁. The Flying Scotsman racing a plane, piloted by Geoffery de Havilland, 1931. Flying Scotsman won this particular race along a stretch of the River Ouse. Although we feel a bit sorry for the boat which didn't really stand a chance.
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🔔Flying Scotsman plans for 2024 announced. Flying Scotsman's next custodian will be awarded in late spring 2024. The locomotive will remain main line operational and will continue with a programme of rail tours and visits to heritage railways from the autumn. Further
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On the first day of Christmas the National Railway Museum gave to me, a 'Mallard' under a bridge. Happy Christmas everyone! 🎄.
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Can you believe two years ago, before *gestures at world*, we celebrated the arrival of Azuma with @LNER?. Mallard even took a little trip out of the museum for the occasion!
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❤️ Thank you to everyone who came down over the weekend and saw Flying Scotsman, we hope you had a great visit!. Here's Scotsman leaving @NetworkRailKGX on Sunday evening. 👇 Share your photos and videos from the weekend below!
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The winners of the first ever Young Railway Photographer of the Year competition were crowned last night at the museum. See a selection of images from the competition, including all the winning shots, in a temporary exhibition in our Great Hall.
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❤️ Flying Scotsman looked incredible today hauling the Royal Train but this was only possible thanks to the immense work of @RileyandSonLtd and Heritage Painting. 👏 We want to say a huge thank you to the teams who worked tirelessly to help deliver Scotsman on this journey.
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It's tiring work on the railways. that's why there are so many sleepers. I'll see myself out.
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Buy one get one free on Sir Nigel Gresley's in this picture😍. 📸 Sir Nigel Gresley with No. 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley', Doncaster Works, 1938
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We do love a Cuneo. 😍. 🎨 Terence Cuneo, ‘On Early Shift’, BR poster, 1948.
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Just two Deltics chilling outside York Motive Power Depot (1982).
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