The Museum of Railway Transport in York is part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry. It presents the history of the development of the railways and their impact on the development of society as a whole. The museum holds a number of prestigious awards, including a number of prestigious awards, including European Museum of the Year in 2001.
The museum exhibits more than 300 pieces of rolling stock, including more than 100 locomotives. All of them have either travelled on the roads of the UK or were here built here. In addition to these, hundreds of thousands of different exhibits are on offer to on an eight-hectare site. It's the largest museum of its kind in the UK.
The history of railway transport is represented here by various types of of locomotives and carriages. There are some record-breakers in this museum: The Flying Scotsman is the train that has remained the longest unchanged on its route and name. It between London and Edinburgh since 1862. The fastest steam locomotive - the A4 Class 4468 Mallard on 3 July 1938, on a slight incline to a speed of 202.7 kilometres an hour. Here you can see the carriages in which in which queens from Victoria to Elizabeth II travelled.
The museum also has an extensive collection of signalling equipment, posters and drawings, tickets, signs, railway uniforms, clocks, blueprints, and a huge number of working model trains. A model of the ring railway has been in operation at the museum since 1982, and it is not known who enjoys the museum more - adults or children.
