What’s on

Behold an enormous-yet-intricate Rowland Emett sculpture, made of eight separate machines which come to life three times a day,

Investigate the effects of forces on your everyday lives and learn how engineers conquer them in fun hands-on activities and opportunities to meet real engineers.

Watch the Durham Locomotive Preservation Group at work restoring Norwood in our Conservation Workshop and talk to the team about their efforts.

It's a replica of an original 1822 George Stephenson design. Or is it?

Join one of our volunteers for a tour exploring the fascinating stories and rich histories of objects from the National Collection.

Learn more about railways and locomotives with talks by experts.

Go behind the scenes of our workshop and find out how we take care of our historic locomotives.

We do all our own shunts: see our incredible locomotives in action on the museum's sidings.

Get up close to dozens of legendary locomotives from throughout railway history.

Railway history is all around us—take a walk to find out more.

Get a great view of Locomotion's rail restoration projects from the workshop viewing platform.

Get a driver’s-eye view from the cabs of some of our spectacular locomotives.