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National Railway Museum makes final touches to magnificent Dominion of Canada train
Organisers in York say the painstaking process of adding lettering to the side of a 1930s locomotive from Canada is the culmination of a "labour of love".
Mallard 75: The journey of a legendary locomotive in York
Ahead of this year's celebrations reuniting engines which now call Canada and North America home, we take a look back with the National Railway Museum.
National Railway Museum launches countdown to Mallard 75 in Yorkshire
Flags have been flown in Doncaster and York Castle has been lit up as part of the build up to the 75th anniversary of the Mallard breaking the world steam speed record.
Museum of Industry honours heroes of planes and trains in packed easter programme
Medals given to Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown, the men who made the first non-stop Transatlantic flight, have gone on show in an all-singing Easter at the MOSI.
Our Friends Electric: Beamish Museum celebrates 40 years on the tramway in Durham
A four-day festival of rides on the eight resident trams, behind-the-scenes tours and talks are taking place to celebrate 40 years of heritage railway heroics at the Beamish.
Culture24/7: Tom Daley, Dorothy Wordsworth and the Prince of Wales make History
There are Secrets of the Royal Bedchambers and Olympic flashbacks in London. It's also Beamish's birthday, and Arbeia Fort and Museum, in South Shields, is back open.
Record breaking Mallard in A4 reunion at York's National Railway Museum
The locomotive which narrowly notched the world steam speed record in 1938 will be reunited with its six surviving A4 class engines as part of a celebratory season in York.
Making tracks: Beeching 50 Years On at the National Railway Museum
Fifty years after Dr Beeching's hugely controversial report ordered widespread cuts to the British railway network, artist Esther Johnson's filmic insight into the effect it had on the Borders is......
Flying Scotsman off tracks for two years as report calls for contractor
The National Railway Museum will appoint independent engineers in a bid to complete the restoration project on the famous 4472 locomotive.
Transport and River and Rowing museums mark 150 years of the London Underground
Marking the 150th anniversary of the tube, the London Transport Museum has a year of events and Henley's River and Rowing Museum looks back at classic poster designs.
Dwight D Eisenhower gets National Railway Museum makeover for Mallard anniversary
Dwight D Eisenhower, sister locomotive of Mallard, is at the National Railway Museum in York for a makeover in time for the world speed record anniversary in 2013.
Yorkshire Film Archive shows It's a Coast Thing in one-off Scarborough Art Gallery screenings
Two film screening sessions for Heritage Open Days at Scarborough Art Gallery show amazing footage from the history of the region, including egg collectors, bygone trains and skiffle legends.
Beamish steam loco Lewin No 18 returns to the dock where it worked for 100 years
Beamish’s recently restored, 135-year-old steam locomotive, the Lewin No 18, is making a historic return to its former workplace, where it worked for more than 100 years.
Chaloner loco back in business thanks to 135-year-old photo at Leighton Buzzard Railway
Volunteers at Leighton Buzzard Railway have made changes to their iconic steam loco Chaloner after a 135-year-old photo revealed its original appearance.
Crich Tramway Village unveils its "geatest challenge" - London United Tramways 159
Crich Tramway Village is proudly displaying the results of the painstaking, seven-year restoration of an Edwardian tram that spent 55 years as a home.
