The National Railway Museum, Shildon

Appeal to share railway memories
People in a North-East town with a rich railway heritage are being asked to share their own histories with visitors to the region's first national museum.

Railway museum is on track for another award
The North-East's first national museum is strengthening its place on the global tourism map by being nominated for an international award.

Locomotion's prize hopes now in the hands of judges
Judges in one of the country's leading art competitions stepped back into the age of steam when they visited the North-East's first national museum yesterday.

Town flying the flags for art award judges
A TOWN is putting out the flags and decorating its shopfronts to show judges its support for a museum vying for Britain's biggest art award.

Museum celebrates its past with plates display
The North-East's first national museum is celebrating a key part of its heritage with a display.

Steaming into the final
Since it opened almost six months ago, Locomotion: National Railway Museum has gone from strength to strength.

What's the commotion at the Locomotion?
Museum bosses face an anxious weekend before they learn if they have been shortlisted for one of Britain's biggest arts prizes.

Rail treasures inspire floral designs
Some of the nation's greatest rail treasures are providing the theme for a floral display at a North-East museum.

Town's quest to win acclaimed prize
A County Durham town is appealing to the rest of the region to back its campaign to bring one of Britain's biggest art prizes to the North-East.

Jubilation as museum reaches visitor target with ten months to spare
THE North-East's first national museum has exceeded expectations by welcoming 70,000 visitors in two months.

It's all aboard for the future
NEAR this spot nearly 180 years ago, the world's first steam-powered passenger train started its inaugural journey. Near here 50 years ago, the wagon works employed about 2,500 men.

Loco steams in for rail museum celebrations
A TOWN is bracing itself for the official opening of a multi-million pound railway museum today.

It didn't come steaming in, but rail legend keeps its date with museum
The day the doors opened at the region's first national museum was one of the proudest moments in the lives of rail pioneer Timothy Hackworth's descendants.

'Forgotten pioneer' is finally recognised
The day the doors opened at the region's first national museum was one of the proudest moments in the lives of rail pioneer Timothy Hackworth's descendants.

Pride as a new chapter in history of North-East railways is opened
Residents of a North-East town were bursting with pride this weekend as thousands of visitors came to the region to witness the start of a new era.

A railway legacy that spans the generations
Helen Miller reports on how the legacy left by a 19th Century railway pioneer has developed into a state-of-the-art museum which will attract 60,000 21st Century visitors a year.

Exhibits in a museum that will be beyond compare
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, the new £11m railway museum at Shildon opened its doors - and its engines - to its first visitors.