The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic
rail vehicles
In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often know ...
(predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums:
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National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum is a museum in York forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant r ...
, York
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Locomotion
Locomotion means the act or ability of something to transport or move itself from place to place.
Locomotion may refer to:
Motion
* Motion (physics)
* Robot locomotion, of man-made devices
By environment
* Aquatic locomotion
* Flight
* Locomoti ...
, Shildon
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Science Museum
A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in mu ...
, Kensington, London
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Science and Industry Museum
The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, England, traces the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields. The museum is part of the Science Museum Group, a non-departmental pub ...
, Manchester
Other items are on short or long-term loans to museums and
heritage railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...
s such as the
Museum of the Great Western Railway
STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'. The museum opened in 2000.
The site
The museum is ...
at Swindon and the
Head of Steam
Head of Steam, formerly known as the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, is a railway museum located on the 1825 route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was the world's first steam-powered passenger railway. It is based inside the ...
museum at Darlington.
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Steam locomotives
Standard gauge designs up to 1869
These locomotives are all gauge unless noted otherwise.
Standard gauge designs 1870 to 1899
These locomotives are all gauge.
Standard gauge designs 1900 to 1922
These locomotives are all gauge unless noted otherwise.
Standard gauge designs 1923 to 1947
These locomotives are all gauge unless noted otherwise.
Standard gauge designs from 1948 onwards
These locomotives are all gauge unless noted otherwise.
Narrow gauge steam locomotives
Broad gauge
Electric locomotives
These locomotives are gauge.
Narrow gauge electric
Electric multiple units coaches
All these coaches are gauge unless noted otherwise.
Electric tramcars
Internal combustion
Standard gauge locomotives
The following locomotives are all gauge and powered by diesel engines unless noted otherwise.
Narrow gauge locomotives
These locomotives are all powered by diesel engines unless noted otherwise.
Diesel multiple unit coaches
All these coaches are gauge and power by diesel engines unless noted otherwise.
Coaching stock
Non-passenger coaching stock
Goods wagons and freight stock
Rolling stock formerly part of the National Collection
Standard gauge steam locomotives
Internal combustion
Narrow gauge steam locomotives
Electric multiple unit coaches
Passenger coaches
Non-passenger coaching stock
Wagons
Notes
References
External links
{{Commons category, Rolling stock in the National Collection of the United Kingdom
Science Museum Group Collection
Preserved steam locomotives of Great Britain
National Collection
The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rolling stock, rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums:
* National Railway Museum, York
* National Railwa ...
UK National Collection