Find out more about how volunteering can help us improve access to our archive.
Harriet Lamb from our development team writes about the amazing generosity of our visitors.
Find out which objects from the museum our volunteers love.
Archivists normally hate the media describing archives as “lost” and “discovered”. My only excuse for using such tired clichés is that this collection actually was lost and discovered.
Ian Hewitt from Heritage Painting writes about the cosmetic restoration of locomotives Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mallard.
It’s February half term and we’ve got some fantastic activities happening at the National Railway Museum.
Railways have always been linked to romance, either in the world of fiction or the real world of meeting loved ones under station clocks.
Whatever its fame and history, a locomotive can also be seen as a collection of skilfully designed, manufactured and maintained components.