This May half term, explore railway history with our heritage steam locomotive display. Get a close-up look at these incredible engines on static display outside Main Hall and discover their fascinating past.
Locomotion is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway by celebrating the past, present and future of the railways through our programme of events and exhibition this year.
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BR Q6 63395
Designed by Sir Vincent Raven, this class of steam locomotive was built for hauling heavy freight, especially coal trains from collieries across the North East of England. A total of 120 were built at Darlington North Road Locomotive Works and Armstrong Whitworth between 1913 and 1921. No. 63395 is the only example of the class to survive to preservation, and was purchased by the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group in December 1967.
LNER P3 2392
Outshopped from Darlington North Road Locomotive Works in September 1923, this steam locomotive spent most of its career at York. In October 1966, it was transferred to Sunderland South Dock to work coal trains in East Durham. On 9 September 1967 it worked the last diagrammed steam turn from Sunderland Shed. It was purchased directly from British Railways by the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group on 1 December 1967.
Lucie Type IV Cockerill
Inspired by the success of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the newly independent Belgium purchased it's first locomotives from Robert Stephenson & Co of Newcastle. These were the ‘Patentee’ 2-2-2 type, which was developed from the design of Rocket. The first stretch of the Mons, Brussels and Antwerp Railway was opened in May 1835, and George Stephenson rode on the first train. Lucie was built in 1890 from the same design as a tram engine by John Cockerill & Cie and worked initially in Brussels. It is one of more than 890 similar engines, with the last delivered in 1949.
Image credit: Mike Heath
Thanks
Thank you to the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group, the Middleton family and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for their support with this event.
