Railfest 2012 at National Railway Museum York

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What

Railfest 2012

When

2 to 10 June 2012

Where

National Railway Museum York, Leeman Road, York YO26 4XJ

The Fanfare

Britain’s biggest celebration of trains and railways (Railfest 2012)  takes place this June in York.

Railfest 2012 will bring together more than 30 record-breaking locomotives that have made their mark on rail history for being the fastest, largest, strongest, first, last or oldest.

Record-breakers include:

• Mallard, the fastest steam locomotive at 126mph;
• the newly restored Flying Scotsman, the first locomotive to reach 100mph;
• Tornado, the newest mainline steam locomotive in operation;
• and Ffestiniog Railway’s George England 0-4-0STT Palmerston, the oldest steamable narrow gauge locomotive, which will be joined by FR carriage No.15, the oldest operational bogie coach in the world.

During the festival visitors will be able to climb inside drivers’ cabs, ride on trains large and small and examine rarely-seen vehicles like a sailing train, snow ploughs and leaf blowers.

There will also be a wide variety of miniature locos and toy train displays.

The event takes place at the National Railway Museum, which covers over 200 years of railway history.

Its collections include more than 100 locomotives, 250 items of rolling stock and thousands of other objects from posters and tickets to uniforms and silverware. The last Railfest was in 2004 and attracted more than 60,000 visitors.

The museum is open daily 10am–6pm, admission free. Railfest 2012 will run from 2 to 10 June, admission charge.

National Railway Museum York, Leeman Road, York YO26 4XJ
Tel: +44 8448 153139
Website: nrm.org.uk/railfest2012
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