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These internationally significant objects reveal how goods and people have moved on the rails over the last 200 years. Discover everyday working locomotives, resplendent royal carriages and railway vehicles from around the globe.

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Gas turbine train, experimental, British Railways, APT-E, Advanced Passenger Train, power car.

Gas Turbine Train, APT-E Power Car

1972
Electric multiple unit. Network South London Class 414 2 HAP electric multiple unit. Vehicles comprise motor coach number 61275 and driving trailer number 75395. The unit initially had the running number 6077 then 4308WD

Class 414

1957-1958
Steam locomotive, Taff Vale Railway, 0-6-2T No 28, built in 1897 at Taff Vale Railway Works, Cardiff, withdrawn in 1927.

Taff Vale Railway No.28

1897
Electric locomotive pantograph made by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd, Manchester, c. 1951.

Electric Locomotive Pantograph

1951
Railway wagon, narrow gauge tipper wagon, ex Naburn Sewage Works, York.

Narrow gauge tipper wagon

12 wheel well wagon: "Trestrol" No KDB901601. Built by Teesside Bridge & Engineering Co for British Rail (Eastern Region), 1950

Trestol well wagon

1950
Steam locomotive, London Midland & Scottish Railway, 2-6-4T No 2500, designed by William Stanier, built at Derby in 1934, withdrawn in 1961.

Steam locomotive, number 2500

1934
Railway carriage, London Midland & Scottish Railway, 3rd class sleeping car No 14241, built Derby, 1928.

London Midland & Scottish Railway sleeping car

1928
British Railways Class 101 Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU). Driving Brake No 51192.

British Railways Class 101 DMU Driving Brake

1958
British Railways Class 101 Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU). Trailer Car No 54352.

British Railways Class 101 DMU Trailer Car

1956-1960
Motor Parcel Van, North Eastern Railway, electric motor parcels van, no 3267, of 1904

Parcels van, North Eastern Railway

1904
6 Ton Shunting Truck, No TDW94988, Great Western Railway, built Swindon, 1914.

Shunting truck, Great Western Railway

1914
Railway carriage, Great Western Railway, reproduction 3rd class, open carriage, (1838) Broad Gauge.

GWR reproduction of 3rd class, open carriage

1985
LSWR dining car no.72 was built in 1907 renumbered 4134 in 1912. It was in use as a Diner until 1923 when ‘Ironclad’ Dining Cars came into service. It was then relegated to secondary service and gained the Southern Railway number of 7834 remaining in service to 1930. In 1931 it was rebuilt, losing its clerestory roof and became a ‘Nondescript’ saloon. In 1943 it was sold to the USATC and rebuilt as an Ambulance Car and given the number 201. At the end of the Second World War this saloon along with USATC 202 and 204-7 went to the Longmoor Military Railway and from there to the Bicester Military Railway where it acquired the Army number 3018. Here it was converted to an Inspection Saloon, losing its gangway along with rebuilding inside and gaining end windows 16th May 1978 it was used to convey HM. the Queen around the Bicester site

Inspection Saloon ex. Bicester Military Railway

1907
Four-wheeled electric tramcar built for the Glasgow Corporation tramways in 1901, complete with overhead conductor, and contemporary track (note: the tramcar has been renovated by the Glasgow Corporation Transport Department)

Tramcar built for the Glasgow corporation

1901
Chaldron wagon, South Hetton Colliery, 4-sided bucket design, wooden with metal wheels, painted black, with "1155 SH 2.18" picked out in white.

South Hetton Colliery chaldron wagon

1845-1855
Caboose (brake van), British Rail Freightliner, container type guard's compartment for use on goods trains, introduced 1965, withdrawn 1965.

British Rail Freightliner caboose (brake van)

1965
Railway carriage, London & North Eastern Railway, third open, LNER No 23956 (BR No SC 13254 E), built by Metropolitan-Cammell, 1936.

London & North Eastern Railway Third Open Railway Carriage No 23956 (13254)

1936
Steam locomotive, Bradyll, built for the South Hetton Coal Company, c.1837.

Steam locomotive, entitled Bradyll

1832-1842
Replica railway carriage, thought to be similar to those used on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

Replica railway carriage

Diesel Multiple Unit; British Rail; Class 108; consisting of DMC 51562 and DMBS 51922, Length over buffers: 60' 8"

Diesel multiple unit; British Rail; Class 108

Railway wagon, open carriage truck, London & North Western Railway, No 11275 (British Railways No 021424) of 1908.

London & North Western Railway open carriage truck

1908
Railway carriage, Great Western Railway, Buffet Car No 9631, built in 1934.

Buffet Car No 9631, Great Western Railway

1934
Railway carriage, London Midland & Scottish Railway, vestibule 3rd, No 7828, built 1925.

LMS vestibule 3rd

1925
Set of railway wagons, Great Western Railway, girder wagon set, consisting of four six-wheel vehicles, Pollen E, No DW84997, DW84998, DW84999, DW85000, to carry 60 tons in total, built Swindon, 1909

Great Western Railway girder wagon set

1909
Carriage, Mark II D Carriage No. 5669 built at Derby Carriage works and completed in October 1971.

Carriage, Mark II D Carriage No. 5669 built at Derby Carriage works and completed in October 1971.

1971
Steam locomotive, London Midland & Scottish Railway, 4F class 0-6-0 No 4027, designed by Henry Fowler, built at Derby in 1924, withdrawn in 1964.

Steam locomotive, 4F class 0-6-0 No 4027

1924
Container flat wagon, No 601403, Freightliner, type FGA , 'outer' wagon, 62 T load capacity, tare weight 19,700 Kg, built Ashford 1968, Lot no. 3675.

Freightliner type FGA container flat wagon, 1968

1968
Railway wagon, narrow gauge tipper wagon, ex Naburn Sewage Works, York.

Narrow gauge tipper wagon

Coach body, North Eastern Railway, c.1850, from 4-wheeled 3rd class wooden bodied carriage with wooden seats, single oil lamp and external communication cord.

NER 4-wheeled railway carriage

1845-1855
Container, 20ft Freightliner Container number O8L43

Freightliner container No O8L43

Steam locomotive, London & South Western Railway, 2-4-0WT No 298, 'Beattie Well Tank', designed by W.G. Beattie, built in 1874, withdrawn in 1962. Renumbered 30587 by British Railways.

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

1874
Steam locomotive, South Devon Railway, broad gauge, vertical boiler 0-4-0T "Tiny", built by Sara & Co, Plymouth in 1868, withdrawn in 1927.

Steam locomotive, South Devon Railway - "Tiny"

1868