62-498: NRM may refer to: National Railway Museum , York, England National Railway Museum (disambiguation) National Record Mart , former US stores National Resistance Movement , a political organisation in Uganda Natural remanent magnetization of a rock or sediment Natural resource management New religious movement or new religion Nordic Resistance Movement ,
124-883: A footbridge from Percy Main station and a segment from the Channel Tunnel . The former goods shed display was retained as the Station Hall. In 1995 the museum joined forces with the University of York to create an academic research base, the Institute of Railway Studies (and Transport History). It has also since partnered with York College to create the Yorkshire Rail Academy to teach vocational skills. The museum has also provided engineering apprenticeships and participates in partnerships aimed at delivering heritage skills training. In 1996
186-555: A campaign was led by transport historian L. T. C. Rolt and others such as the historian Jack Simmons to create a new museum. Agreement was reached under terms in the Transport Act 1968 for B.R. to provide premises to be occupied by a National Railway Museum which would be a branch of the National Museum of Science and Industry then under Dame Margaret Weston and the first English national museum outside London –
248-445: A collection of historic locomotives, which included Caledonian 123 , Columbine , Cornwall , Hardwicke , Highland 103, Midland 118 and Pet . Three others, set aside for preservation at Crewe Works , were scrapped in a change of policy in 1932. The LMS set aside one further locomotive (Midland 158A) before it was overtaken by nationalisation. It also succeeded in preserving a collection of historic royal saloons at Wolverton and built
310-512: A curator be appointed for the commission's holdings (John M. Scholes), retention of the York museum, creation of other regional museums (not carried out in the way proposed), a small relics display in the old Great Hall at Euston railway station (done on a temporary basis) and a large museum of collections elsewhere in London. For the latter, the former station at Nine Elms was originally favoured as
372-603: A glass case or mounted on a plinth. Coppernob at Barrow-in-Furness , Derwent and Locomotion at Darlington and Tiny at Newton Abbot were long-lived examples of this form of display. The first railway museums were opened at Hamar in Norway (1896) and Nuremberg in Germany (1899). These inspired talk of doing the same in Britain, both in the 1890s and again in 1908, but this came to nothing at that time. Indeed, two of
434-813: A household recipe book used in George Stephenson 's house to film showing a " never-stop railway " developed for the British Empire Exhibition . It has won many awards, including the European Museum of the Year Award in 2001. Starting in 2019, a major site development was underway. As part of the York Central redevelopment which will divert Leeman Road, the National Railway Museum will be building
496-720: A move which was at the time criticised by Londoners. The building provided was the former locomotive roundhouse at York North (rebuilt in the 1950s), alongside the East Coast Main Line. The old museum and that at Clapham were closed in 1973. A Sainsbury's supermarket now stands on the Clapham site. Some items were retained in the capital and formed the basis of the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Some from York were re-located to
558-400: A new entrance building to connect the two separate parts of the museum together. At the same time, the space around the museum was to be landscaped to provide public spaces. In 2020, architectural practice Feilden Fowles won an international competition to create the museum's new £16.5 million Central Hall building—a key element of the museum's Vision 2025 masterplan. In January 2023,
620-571: A pan-Nordic Neo-Nazi organization Normal Response Mode in the HDLC communications protocol North Richmond railway station , Melbourne N.R.M. , a rock band from Minsk, Belarus Nucleus raphes medianus , area within the brain ISO 639-3 code for Narom language Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NRM . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
682-399: A preliminary Heritage Lottery Fund contribution was announced in 2009, and seeking potential partners for a further outhousing project. There are other partnerships for development of the museum estate and the land around it (much owned by Network Rail) as "York Central" but the economic situation during 2009 put these particular plans in abeyance although a similar York Central project
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#1732773269930744-549: A replica Rocket , with six replica carriages, for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway centenary in 1930, and a replica Grand Junction Railway Travelling Post Office. The Southern Railway inherited three preserved carriages of the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway , long displayed at York and at Waterloo station , but otherwise had no policy of preserving redundant equipment. Ryde was preserved from 1934 until cut up in 1940;
806-596: A site, but what was eventually opened in 1961 was the Museum of British Transport in a former bus garage in Clapham . An official list of locomotives for preservation was compiled, and many were stored in sheds and works throughout the country, others being placed on loan to local authority museums. The 'Steam' Museum at Swindon still displays a large number of items from the National Collection, while
868-441: A wide range of models, some of which are operated on the museum's O scale model railway (originated in 1982). The National Railway Museum holds a large open library and archive of railway related material. This includes an internationally significant collection of locomotive and rolling stock engineering drawings from railway works and independent manufacturing companies. Copies of many of these engineering drawings are sold to
930-550: Is a museum in York , England, 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 railway vehicles such as Mallard , Stirling Single , Duchess of Hamilton and a Japanese bullet train . In addition, the National Railway Museum holds a diverse collection of other objects, from
992-683: Is among the exhibits intended for operation on the National Rail network from time to time. The museum has imported several major vehicles for display: the Chinese Class KF7 4–8–4 locomotive donated in 1981 was built in Britain and the Wagons-Lits sleeping car donated in 1980 had been used on the Paris-London Night Ferry service. The single exception to the rule of exhibits associated with Britain
1054-548: Is the Japanese 0 Series Shinkansen leading vehicle which was donated to the museum by the West Japan Railway Company in 2001 and which now forms part of an award-winning display, and is one of only two Shinkansen vehicles on exhibit outside Japan. Rail vehicles on display are exchanged from time to time with other organisations, and examples of new-build stock from the current industry sometimes visit
1116-576: Is the largest museum of its type in Britain, attracting 782,000 visitors during the 2018/19 financial year (the largest in the world in terms of floor area of exhibition buildings is Cité du Train in the French town of Mulhouse , although this attracts far fewer visitors than the National Railway Museum). The National Railway Museum was established on its present site, the former York North locomotive depot , in 1975, when it took over
1178-681: The Glasgow Museum of Transport was also indebted to it, although many of the Scottish relics (including NBR K 'Glen' Class 4-4-0 No. 256 Glen Douglas currently at the successor to the Glasgow Museum of Transport, the Riverside Museum , along with the previously mentioned locomotives) no longer form part of the National Collection. The Beeching Report recommended that British Rail should stop running museums, and
1240-620: The Great Western Railway 's earliest broad-gauge locomotives, North Star and Lord of the Isles , which had been set aside at Swindon Works , were cut up in 1906 for lack of space and several other relics were similarly lost in subsequent years. From 1880, J. B. Harper of the North Eastern had been collecting material much of which was exhibited on the occasion of the S.& D.R. centenary in 1925; and which then formed
1302-652: The Head of Steam museum in Darlington . Exhibits from the previous museums at York and Clapham moved to the new site were supplemented by vehicles taken from storage at Preston Park in Brighton and elsewhere and restored. Creation of the York museum was largely in the hands of its first keeper, John Coiley , his deputy Peter Semmens, John Van Riemsdijk of the Science Museum and David Jenkinson . The museum
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#17327732699301364-835: The National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Exporail in Montreal , as part of the ' Mallard 75' event in 2013. The two locomotives would be on loan for up to two years, during which time the locomotives would be cosmetically restored, 60008 in BR Brunswick Green (as it appeared in 1963 on withdrawal) and 60010 as LNER 4489 in Garter Blue with its original Canadian Pacific Railway bell (as it appeared in 1939). Louis Brennan Louis Brennan CB (28 January 1852 – 17 January 1932)
1426-544: The 1970s, among them some of the first rail vehicles to be set aside for preservation. Other key exhibits normally to be seen at York include the 1846 Furness Railway No. 3 "Coppernob" locomotive, and the more modern express passenger steam locomotives London and North Eastern Railway Class A3 No. 4472 Flying Scotsman (added to the collection in 2004), its streamlined sister Class A4 No. 4468 Mallard and London, Midland and Scottish Railway Princess Coronation Class No. 6229 Duchess of Hamilton . Flying Scotsman
1488-854: The British Ministry of Munitions . From 1919 to 1926 he was engaged by the Air Ministry in aircraft research work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough, and gave much time to developing the Brennan Helicopter . The first tethered flights (inside a hangar) took place in December 1921, at which time the engine was up-rated from the Bentley BR1 to the Bentley BR2 . Flight trials in
1550-590: The Director of the NRM. Concerns about the condition of the concrete roof structure on the main building brought forward major changes to the museum in 1990. To maintain a presence at York, the former York goods depot across Leeman Road, already in use as a museum store (the Peter Allen Building), was configured to display trains as if in a passenger station, and this together with the adjacent South Yard
1612-577: The Great Western's City of Truro , London and North Western Railway Columbine and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway B1 Class Gladstone . The GWR assembled a valuable collection of small objects, mounted privately in a long corridor at Paddington station , and in 1925 it built a replica of North Star . It preserved City of Truro and Tiny in 1931 and purchased Shannon for preservation in 1946. The LMS had its own collection of small objects at Euston . It also began to build up
1674-596: The Museum Garden was created incorporating a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 184 mm ) gauge ridable miniature railway . A playground was also added. Continued concern over the condition of the remaining 1950s buildings on the site led to their replacement by The Works in 1999. This gave several functional areas: the Workshop , for maintenance of rolling stock; the Workshop Gallery , from which
1736-572: The Museum of the play of E. Nesbit 's The Railway Children , awarded five stars in The Guardian . Following this success, it was repeated in 2009, from 23 July to 3 September, and the museum provided locomotives for subsequent performances at Waterloo International station and in Toronto . Major plans under the name "NRM+" were made for refurbishing the Great Hall display, for which
1798-404: The National Collection, with around 100 being at York at any one time and the remainder divided between Locomotion at Shildon and other museums and heritage railways . The earliest are wagonway vehicles of about 1815. The permanent display includes "Palaces on Wheels", a collection of Royal Train saloons from Queen Victoria 's early trains through to those used by Queen Elizabeth II up to
1860-570: The National Railway Museum in Shildon , County Durham was opened in October 2004 and is operated by the NRM in conjunction with Durham County Council . It houses more of the National Collection in a new building and a historic site around the former workshop of Timothy Hackworth and in the most recent full year for which figures have been published (2011–2012), it attracted more than 210,000 visitors. There are approximately 280 rail vehicles in
1922-581: The Tank Engine books were assured a permanent place in the NRM's collection of historical railway books, due to their role in maintaining children's interests in railways. In 1991, Christopher Awdry chose to fictionalise this event in Thomas and the Great Railway Show , where Thomas (the most iconic of Awdry's characters) was made an honorary member of the NRM collection by Sir Topham Hatt and
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1984-531: The War Office. Sir Andrew Clarke alerted the authorities to the possibilities of the torpedo if used in the defence of harbours and channels, and the patent was eventually bought for a sum believed to be more than £100,000 (£ 12,843,000 in 2024). In 1887 Brennan was appointed superintendent of the Brennan torpedo factory, and was consulting engineer 1896–1907. He did much work on a monorail locomotive which
2046-567: The basis of a museum opened at York by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1928 under the curatorship of E. M. Bywell. The smaller exhibits were housed in the old station buildings and the rolling stock and other large exhibits in the former locomotive erecting and repair shops of the old York and North Midland Railway (demolished after the museum closed). Despite this however, the locomotives were displayed on short lengths of track acting as plinths, very much in traditional museum style. It
2108-515: The earliest era of photography to the modern day. These include official collections from railway companies and collections from enthusiasts like Eric Treacy and H. Gordon Tidey . In 1999/2000 the Museum began to collect recordings of former railway staff for a National Archive of Railway Oral History. It also holds the archive of steam train recordings by Peter Handford . In 2009 The Forsythe Collection of travel and transport ephemera
2170-516: The former British Railways collection located in Clapham and the York Railway Museum located off Queen Street, immediately to the southeast of the railway station; since then, the collection has continued to grow. The museum is accessible on foot from York railway station . A "roadtrain" runs from the city centre (near York Minster ) to the museum on Leeman Road during half-term, holidays and summer. York Park and Ride also serve
2232-494: The gyroscopes might fail, and partly because any wagons or coaches towed by the locomotive would also need powered gyroscopic stabilisation. From 1916 to 1919 Brennan served in the munitions inventions department. In 1916 he submitted a patent application entitled "Improvements Relating to Aerial Navigation" in which he outlined designs for a helicopter, and in June 1916 he received support for his experimental helicopter project from
2294-492: The heritage railway movement to assist with their new build locomotive and restoration projects. They are also sold to modellers who can use the drawing to produce accurate scale models. The library holds more than 20,000 books and 800 journals of which around 300 are active. The archive also holds a large collection of technical and test records, as well as timetables including a large number of Bradshaw timetables . The archives also hold some 1.75 million photographs covering
2356-619: The idea of a steerable torpedo in 1874, from observing that if a thread is pulled on a reel at an angle with suitable leverage, the reel will move away from the thread side. Brennan spent some years working out his invention, and received a grant of £700 from the Victorian government towards his expenses. He patented the Brennan Torpedo in 1877. The idea was trialled at Camden Fort near Crosshaven , Cork , Ireland . Brennan went to England in 1880 and brought his invention before
2418-598: The late 19th century, the National Collection today results from the fusion of two long-running official initiatives. One was led by the State museums sector, evidencing pioneering technology, and the other by the railway industry, in which the key contribution came from the North Eastern Railway as successors to the historic Stockton and Darlington Railway . What became the Science Museum collection
2480-406: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NRM&oldid=1248232083 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum ( NRM )
2542-581: The main hall to the Workshop Gallery, the Museum Inclinator was constructed. Besides its primary function, this also served to demonstrate the workings of a funicular railway . To that end its workings were exposed in the style of a larger open air funicular railway, rather than being concealed in the fabric of the building as is more normal for intramural lifts. It ceased working due to lack of spare parts, and with no plans for repair it
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2604-491: The museum commissioned a working replica of Stephenson's Rocket for the following year's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 150th anniversary. This has since represented the museum at events around the world. Another working replica was added to the collection for the 150th anniversary of establishment of the Great Western Railway in 1985: that of the 7 ft ( 2,134 mm ) broad gauge locomotive Iron Duke . In 1990, The Rev. W. Awdry 's Railway Series Thomas
2666-593: The museum for short periods. Other physically large exhibits are the Stockton and Darlington Railway Gaunless Bridge and several stationary winding engines used on railway inclines. The many other two and three-dimensional elements of the collection include signalling equipment, road vehicles, ship models, posters , drawings and other artwork, tickets , nameplates, staff uniforms, clocks , watches , furniture and equipment from railway companies' hotels , refreshment rooms and offices (including company seals ) and
2728-449: The museum from the car park entrance, on Line 2 (Rawcliffe Bar-York). Admission to the museum has been free since 2001. It is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm during February half-term holiday, then Wednesday to Sunday only from 10 am to 5 pm. Since 3 January 2023, the Station Hall is closed for re-roofing, repair work and redecoration, with some of the exhibits displayed there closed. Due to reopen late 2024. Locomotion –
2790-511: The museum had a high-profile campaign, supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund , to purchase Flying Scotsman which arrived at the Museum as the climax of Railfest. The first stage of a new centre providing easy access to the museum's Library and Archives, called "Search Engine", opened at the end of 2007. From 18 July to 23 August 2008, a popular new venture was the staging by York Theatre Royal at
2852-600: The museum's Station Hall (a Grade II listed "former goods station built between 1875–77") was closed for an estimated 18 months for "urgent structural repair" which was to include the installation of a new roof over that area. The National Railway Museum has over 6,000 objects on display of which around 100 are locomotives or rolling stock which tell the stories for Britain's railway innovation. The collection also includes fine jewellery worn by railway queens, models of planes, boats and hovercraft, and experimental technologies such as Louis Brennan 's Gyroscopic Mono-rail car. It
2914-759: The only other locomotive preserved by the Southern was Boxhill in 1947. ( Gladstone was preserved by the Stephenson Locomotive Society as a private initiative and much later (in 1959) donated to the British Transport Commission .) The nationalisation of British Railways in 1948 gave the opportunity for a more consolidated approach and a report was produced by the British Transport Commission in 1951. Amongst other things this recommended
2976-617: The open started in May 1924, however in October 1925 a demonstration flight ended with one of the twin blade rotors touching the ground causing damage to several components. The government had spent a large sum of money on it, and the Air Ministry was still offering an award of £50,000 for the developments of a successful machine, but in 1926 the air ministry gave up funding the Brennan helicopter project, much to Brennan's disappointment. He married Anna Quinn (died 1931) on 10 September 1892. He
3038-493: The public can look down on this work; a Working Railway Gallery , giving an insight into current and recent operation including a balcony overlooking York railway station hosting a set of monitors showing live feeds from the monitors at York IECC ; and the Warehouse which provides an innovative open storage area, which has proved popular with both public and museum professionals. In order to provide step-free access from
3100-426: The website recommends pre-booking archive materials at least 24 hours in advance. The majority of its collections have been listed on its website for people to view what materials are available prior to their visit. For those people that cannot visit the museum itself there is a research service offered by the museum called Inreach . Although there had been amateur attempts to establish a national railway museum from
3162-433: The workings of a steam locomotive. The new museum received over a million visitors in its first year and was favourably received by critics. Significant events of 1979 were the restoration of a train of appropriate vehicles to mark the centenary of on-train catering and an exhibition to mark the centenary of railway electric traction which drew attention to the museum's important collections in this area. Also in 1979
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#17327732699303224-437: Was acquired for the collection. Many of the museum's artworks and posters can also be viewed through Search Engine although these are now displayed in a series of temporary exhibitions in the museum's new art gallery which opened in 2011. The Search Engine facility opened in late 2007 and is open from 10:00 to 17:30 Wednesday to Saturday. The archive and library collections can be viewed by anyone without an appointment although
3286-430: Was an Irish mechanical engineer and inventor. Brennan was born in Castlebar , Ireland , and moved to Melbourne , Australia , in 1861 with his parents. He started his career as a watchmaker and a few years later was articled to Alexander Kennedy Smith , a renowned civil and mechanical engineer of the period. He served as a sergeant in the Victorian Engineers under the command of Captain J. J. Clark . Brennan invented
3348-524: Was begun in the 1860s by the Patent Office, whose museum included such early relics as Puffing Billy , Stephenson's Rocket and Agenoria (sister locomotive to Stourbridge Lion ), which was outhoused to York at an early date. Preservation of redundant equipment by the railway companies themselves was a matter of chance. Sometimes relics were stored in company workshops and offices and some were destroyed as circumstances changed. Some were put on public display, usually at railway stations, displayed in
3410-464: Was kept upright by a gyrostat . In 1903 he patented a gyroscopically-balanced monorail system that he designed for military use; he successfully demonstrated the full sized system on 10 November 1909, at Gillingham , England . At the Japan–British Exhibition of 1910 at White City, London , he built a mile long monorail track and gave rides for around 40 people at a time on his gyro stabilised 22-ton prototype. Winston Churchill (then Home Secretary)
3472-456: Was launched by the city council at the beginning of 2016. The NRM+ project was cancelled in April 2011 due to lack of success in assembling the funding package. However, major changes to the displays in the Station Hall began later in 2011. In 2012, the NRM decided to repatriate temporarily the two LNER A4 class steam locomotives, numbers 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower and 60010 Dominion of Canada from their respective North American homes at
3534-479: Was marketed as The Great Railway Show . A further selection of exhibits formed the National Railway Museum on Tour on display for a season in the former Swindon Works . Meanwhile, the main building was completely re-roofed and reconstructed retaining only one of the two original 1954 turntables . It was reopened on 16 April 1992 by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent as the Great Hall giving enhanced opportunities to display large artifacts such as railway signals ,
3596-444: Was one of the passengers and then drove the vehicle himself for one circuit. He was so impressed that he brought along the Prime Minister and other cabinet members and family to see it the following week. The exhibit was awarded the Grand Prize for the exhibition. Although the ability of the vehicle to balance itself on a single rail was amazing, especially when stationary, it was not to prove a commercial success, partly due to fears that
3658-443: Was only when the NRM was formed that Britain acquired a rail-served railway museum where large exhibits could come and go with ease. The collection was dominated by items from the North Eastern Railway, together with Great Northern Railway items. The other three ' Big Four ' railway companies showed little interest in contributing to the LNER's initiative, though eventually one locomotive representative of each did find its way there:
3720-475: Was opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , in 1975. The opening coincided with the 150th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, for which several working exhibits were provided. By comparison with the museum's predecessors coverage of ordinary passenger coaches and non-steam motive power was enhanced, but a popular new exhibit was ex-Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class No. 35029 Ellerman Lines sectioned to show
3782-426: Was removed by August 2013. 2004 saw several major developments at the museum. Several railway anniversaries were celebrated by a major "Railfest". Another took place from 25 to 30 May 2008 with a Sixties theme. The Locomotion museum was opened at Shildon , County Durham providing undercover collection care facilities for more rail vehicles (particularly freight wagons) from the museum's collection. In addition,
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#17327732699303844-405: Was survived by a son and a daughter. Brennan was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1892, and was foundation member of the National Academy of Ireland in 1922. In January 1932 he was knocked down by a car at Montreux , Switzerland , and died on 17 January 1932. Brennan was buried at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery , Kensal Green , London , in an unmarked plot numbered 2454 that
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