Historic rail vehicles assembled for ‘Europe’s biggest display’

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Locomotion announced it has completed the movement of 46 vehicles into a new £8 million building at its site in Shildon, County Durham.

Dozens of rail vehicles have been assembled at a museum in County Durham for what curators claim will be the biggest display of its kind in Europe.

Locomotion is built close to the site of Shildon Works, a thriving railway workshop once employing thousands of people which closed in June 1984.She said: “New Hall effectively doubles the size of Locomotion and gives us much needed covered display space to help conserve the collection, as well as giving visitors the chance to find out more about the railways and the North East’s railway heritage.

Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the world’s first passenger train, which was hauled by George Stephenson’s steam locomotive Locomotion No.1 along the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

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