Agnes and I had a great day visiting the British Rail Museum
in York today, and had a very enjoyable afternoon sitting on the deck enjoying
the warm sun.
The British Rail Museum here in York is totally unbelievable. The locomotive gallery has some of the most
famous locomotives in history. Several
have cut away sections so you can see how they engines worked. The range of locomotives range from the very
earliest engines some of which were employed in mines to the most modern high
speed streamliners. They have the
Mallard which is a streamlined steam engine and holds the world’s record as the
fastest steam locomotive at 128 mph (205 km/h). You can walk up and touch it! They have the Duchess of Hamilton which is
considered to be one of the most beautiful engines ever built. In the gallery of trains they have the royal
trains as used by King Edward, Queen Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth. They have a layout on the floor of where
everyone was supposed to stand when the royal train pulled up and the queen was
about to disembark. From the upstairs
gallery you can watch the workmen in the restoration shop or go outside and
watch trains pulling into or leaving the York railroad station. They have a complete gallery which is dedicated
to the Flying Scotsman. This train reduced the travel time between Edinburgh to
London from 16 hours to 7 hours. It
introduced dining cars, sleeping cars and turned what was a horrid journey to
be endured into a luxury experience. The warehouse is a huge collection of railroad
memorabilia stacked in crates and pallets up to the ceiling. We kind of walked through some of it but as
there were thousands and thousands of items and the tour was an hour and a half
we didn’t spend a lot of time looking at it.
Unbelievably this incredible museum is free.
After we got out of the museum the sun was shining down on a
beautiful warm and sunny day. As the
museum was only a short walk from our boat we walked down the river
pathway. Once on board we sat on deck
and enjoyed a very pleasant couple of hours just enjoying the sun and watching
the boats cruising up and down the river.
A cold beer and a snack was perfect.
Topping things off of a perfect day Jos and Patrick just
arrived back with more refreshments and supper. Good thing as I had finished the
beer.
Agnes and I had a great day visiting the British Rail Museum
in York today, and had a very enjoyable afternoon sitting on the deck enjoying
the warm sun.
The British Rail Museum here in York is totally unbelievable. The locomotive gallery has some of the most
famous locomotives in history. Several
have cut away sections so you can see how they engines worked. The range of locomotives range from the very
earliest engines some of which were employed in mines to the most modern high
speed streamliners. They have the
Mallard which is a streamlined steam engine and holds the world’s record as the
fastest steam locomotive at 128 mph (205 km/h). You can walk up and touch it! They have the Duchess of Hamilton which is
considered to be one of the most beautiful engines ever built. In the gallery of trains they have the royal
trains as used by King Edward, Queen Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth. They have a layout on the floor of where
everyone was supposed to stand when the royal train pulled up and the queen was
about to disembark. From the upstairs
gallery you can watch the workmen in the restoration shop or go outside and
watch trains pulling into or leaving the York railroad station. They have a complete gallery which is dedicated
to the Flying Scotsman. This train reduced the travel time between Edinburgh to
London from 16 hours to 7 hours. It
introduced dining cars, sleeping cars and turned what was a horrid journey to
be endured into a luxury experience. The warehouse is a huge collection of railroad
memorabilia stacked in crates and pallets up to the ceiling. We kind of walked through some of it but as
there were thousands and thousands of items and the tour was an hour and a half
we didn’t spend a lot of time looking at it.
Unbelievably this incredible museum is free.
After we got out of the museum the sun was shining down on a
beautiful warm and sunny day. As the
museum was only a short walk from our boat we walked down the river
pathway. Once on board we sat on deck
and enjoyed a very pleasant couple of hours just enjoying the sun and watching
the boats cruising up and down the river.
A cold beer and a snack was perfect.
Topping things off of a perfect day Jos and Patrick just
arrived back with more refreshments and supper. Good thing as I had finished the
beer.
Happy Canada Day!
Terry
1 comment:
Well, did you walk up and touch it?
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