Locomotion Museum

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Locomotion, previously known as Locomotion the National Railway Museum at Shildon, is a railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, England. The museum was renamed in 2017 when it became part of the Science Museum Group.[1]

Overview

The museum was opened on 22 October 2004 by then Prime Minister and local MP Tony Blair.[2] Built at a cost of £11.3 million, it is based on the former "Timothy Hackworth Victorian Railway Museum". The museum is operated in partnership with Durham County Council and was expected to bring 60,000 visitors a year to the small town. It exceeded expectations, and during its first six months, the museum attracted 94,000 visits. Locomotion was shortlisted as one of the final five contenders in the Gulbenkian Prize, which is the largest arts prize in the United Kingdom.

As part of the 2025 plans for the National Railway Museum, a second building has been built to house more of the national collection.[3] In addition, parts of the original museum including the coal drops have been restored, having fallen out of use.

Site

The museum is sited near Timothy Hackworth's Soho Works on the world's first public railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened on 27 September 1825 with a train hauled by Locomotion No 1 which took 2 hours to complete the Template:Convert journey from Shildon to Darlington). The town was to become a major centre for British railway engineering thanks to the Shildon wagon works, which closed in 1984.[4]

Shildon station, on the Tees Valley Line was rebuilt and modernised as part of the museum's construction and is actually situated adjacent to the trail and demonstration rail line through the museum site. It is served by all services on the line, operated by Northern.

Museum landmarks

The museum is arranged as stops along the Template:Convert demonstration line with station direction board signs and information points on the trail between the car parks and the main collection building. The museum has a six-spur apron in front of the main shed and another short length of track for showing off resident locomotives and visiting trains.

The trail starts at the 19th-century welcome building. The original Sans Pareil was previously on display here (It has since been moved to the Collection Building). The second building is Timothy Hackworth's house.[5] It contains several activities about the history of Shildon. Soho is a stone building that was a railway workshop, having originally been an iron merchant's store. The fourth stop is the former goods shed for the town, with most incoming and outgoing goods being delivered to the railway by horse and cart. The building is built partially from recycled stone sleeper blocks, the old fixing slots being visible in the wall.[6]

The railway station's parcel office is the next part of the trail and at the junction, visible across the tracks are the former stables for the early horse-drawn wagonways that linked to the line. The coal drops were a refuelling point for steam locomotives. Wagons were hauled up an incline and the coal 'dropped' down wooden chutes into the tender below.[7][8]

The trail passes under the roadway. There is a children's playground and a picnic area outside the Collection Building, the largest building in the museum, where the trail ends. It contains the exhibition hall and a conservation workshop with viewing gallery to see the work carried out by volunteers restoring some of the exhibits. Other facilities in the building include interactive games, a cafe and shop.

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Exhibits

The museum is home to several locomotives from the National Collection, including a replica of Timothy Hackworth's Sans Pareil. The original engine, built to compete in the Rainhill Trials, is also at Shildon. The trials were to decide which engine should operate the passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester. After a 175 years absence from the town, the locomotive was returned and is displayed in the Collection building.[9] LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard which is usually displayed in the NRM's York museum was temporarily displayed in the museum from June 2010 to July 2011.[10] In 2014, ahead of the 75th-anniversary celebrations for Mallard's setting the world steam speed record, 8,000 visitors turned up to welcome five sister A4 locomotives including 60008 "Dwight D Eisenhower" and 60010 "Dominion of Canada" that were repatriated from North America, the latter was given a cosmetic overhaul in Shildon's workshop.

The main exhibition building houses most of the collection and includes the sole examples of the prototype APT-E and Deltic units.[11] The museum has a wind turbine which provides power to the National Grid and an on-site biodiesel bus for transporting visitors around the site.

The NRM recommends checking with them in advance if going to see a particular exhibit.[12]

Steam Locomotives
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Livery Image Current

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Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST 3850 Juno Green File:Juno1.jpg Static New to Stewarts & Lloyds ironstone quarries, Buckminster
SR Battle of Britain Class 34051 Winston Churchill BR Lined Green File:SR 34051 Winston Churchill at Didcot.jpg Static Hauled Winston Churchill's Funeral Train
LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 5000 LMS Lined Black File:Stanier class 5MT No 5000 at Rainhill.jpg Static First Black Five in class
Locomotion 1 Locomotion Wood lagged
File:Locomotion No. 1..jpg
 Static Original built for Stockton and Darlington Railway
Locomotion replica 1 Locomotion Wood lagged
File:Locomotion Tyseley (1).jpg
 Moved here from Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum in March 2021.[13]
NER Class C1 65033 BR Black File:J21 No.65033 at Shildon.jpg Static (awaiting restoration)
LNER Class V2 4771 Green Arrow LNER Apple Green File:4771 GREEN ARROW East Lancashire Railway.jpg Static (potential restoration opportunity) Now moved to a museum in Doncaster alongside 251 [14]
Sans Pareil replica Sans Pareil Green and Yellow painted wood File:Sans Pareil Replica.jpg Static
Timothy Hackworth entry for Rainhill Trials Sans Pareil Exposed Metal File:Sans Pareil - geograph.org.uk - 2532040.jpg Static
LNWR Class G2 49395 BR Black File:49395 Super D at Heywood.JPG Static
Hetton colliery railway locomotive Lyon Black File:Hetton Colliery 0-4-0 (1822 or 1851) Locomotion Shildon 29.06.2009 P6290048 (9989613283).jpg Static
NER Class M1 1621 NER Apple Green File:North Eastern Railway Class M1 no. 1621 (6684770383).jpg Static
GNR Class C1 (large boiler) 251 GNR Apple Green File:GNR Atlantic C1 251 (7074588099).jpg Static Now moved to a museum in Doncaster[15]
LSWR 0298 Class (Beattie well tank) 30587 BR Black File:C1 KWVR Little Engines Gala 08I07I2017.jpg Now on display at the National Railway Museum, York[16]
South African Class 7A 4-8-0 390 Black File:Cape Government Railway 4-8-0 No. 390 (built 1896).jpg Static Cape Gauge,

Now on display at the National Railway Museum, York[17]

LNWR Improved Precedent Class 790 Hardwicke LNWR Lined Black File:790 HARDWICKE National Railway Museum.jpg Static
Andrew Barclay fireless locomotive Imperial No. 1 Imperial Paper Mills Green File:... at Locomotion Shildon ... (3067224169).jpg Static
Diesel & Electric Locomotives
Class Number

(and name if applicable)

Livery Image Current

Status

Additional Notes
LNER Class ES1 Electric Shunter 1 NER Lined Green File:... at Locomotion Shildon ... (3068486866) (2).jpg Static
British Rail Class 03 Shunter D2090 (03090) BR Green File:British Rail Class 03 shunter No. D2090 (built 1960).jpg Operational
British Rail Class 08 Shunter 08911 Matey BR Blue with NRM branding File:08911 at National Railway Museum.jpg Operational
English Electric DP1 DP1 DELTIC Blue with grey lining File:English Electric prototype Co-Co No. DP1 "Deltic" (built 1955).jpg Static Prototype Deltic
British Rail Class 41 (HST) 41001 Reverse BR Blue & Grey File:41001 At York Front.jpg Static (awaiting inspection) Prototype HST power car
British Rail Class 43 (HST) 43102 InterCity Swallow File:Intercity 125 number 43102, Feb 2021.jpg Static Named "The Journey Shrinker". Holds world speed record for diesel traction, arrived from East Midlands Railway
British Rail Class 71 71001 BR Blue File:E5001 at Doncaster Works.JPG Static (under restoration)
British Rail APT-E APT-E Reverse BR Blue & Grey File:British Rail APT-E at Shildon Locomotion Museum.jpg Static Gas Turbine
Sentinel Diesel-hydraulic Shunter H001 RMS Locotec Blue File:Sentinel 34 ton 0-4-0DH ‘HOO1’ (1959) Locomotion Shildon 29.06.2009 P6290043 (9989485904).jpg Static New to Bass Brewery; rebuilt for CEGB, Haverton Hill
Wickham Trolley 960209 BR Brown File:Exhibit, Locomotion Shildon, 28 April 2010 (3).JPG Static
Southern Railway Waterloo & City line Shunter (1898) 75S L&SWR Salmon File:Waterloo & City 3rd rail Bo No 75S (1898) Locomotion Shildon 29.06.2009 P6290050 (9989609633).jpg Static
Diesel & Electric Multiple Units
Class Number

(and name if applicable)

Livery Image Current

Status

Additional Notes
British Rail Class 306 306017 BR Green with yellow warning panel File:Class 306 Green.jpg Static (awaiting restoration) Two cars on apron, remaining car behind workshop covered by white tarpaulin.
British Rail Class 142 142001 Unbranded Northern File:142001 at Blackburn station.jpg Operational
British Rail Class 414 4308 Network SouthEast on one side, BR Blue and Grey the other File:414308 undergoing restoration at the NRM Shildon.jpg Static
British Rail Class 401 2090 BR Green File:BR Class 401 2-BIL EMU no. 2090, London Waterloo, 24 October 1987.jpg Static
Hauled Rolling Stock & Wagons
Class Number

(and name if applicable)

Livery Image Additional Notes
British Railways Mark 1 Brake Corridor Composite Coach 21274 BR InterCity File:... at Locomotion Shildon ... (3068061586).jpg
BR ZZA Snow Plough ADB 965232 Network Rail Black File:Triumph (14033991075).jpg
SR "Queen Mary" brake van B56283 BR Brown File:Guard carriage. - panoramio.jpg Used at museum for carrying passengers
BR merry-go-round train HAA coal hopper wagon 350000 BR Grey File:HAA hopper 350000 at the NRM Shildon.jpg First built HAA wagon (prototype built at Darlington)
BR merry-go-round train HAA coal hopper wagon 368459 Last built of 10,702 HAA wagons (built at Shildon)
NER Snow Plough Snow Plough No. 12 NER Brown File:1891 NER snow plow NRM Object Number 1978-7123.jpg
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits Night Ferry Sleeping Car 3972 CIWL Blue File:Sleeper Night Ferry 1.JPG
High Speed Freight Vehicle HSFV1 Grey File:British Rail HSFVI RDB 511023.jpg Basis for Class 142 chassis
Stockton and Darlington Railway Composite Coach (1847) 59 S&DR Brown File:Stockton and Darlington Railway carriage.jpg
Stockton and Darlington Railway Composite Coach (1846) 31 S&DR Brown File:Stockton and Darlington Railway carriage (14035032105).jpg Formerly displayed at Stockton station.

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ "Prime Minister opens Shildon Locomotion museum" The Railway Magazine issue 1244 December 2004 page 5
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  4. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 3
  5. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 27
  6. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 38
  7. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 5
  8. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 23
  9. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 5
  10. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 18
  11. ↑ Coulls 2012, p. 52
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