DRS locos 37682 and former Blue Pullman 47712 stand in the sidings at York

A taste of what is to come courtesy of one of the stewards vests. The nameplates won't appear for another few weeks

One or two people decided to turn out for the occassion of Tornado'f first run with passengers on the mainline

I know that the shot is 'piked' but the sun was all wrong and I wanted to show the number of people in this view

86902 stands beneath the magnificent roof at York

'The SE&CR, Wainwright D, No 737 was a 4-4-0 express locomotive built in Ashford at the turn of the century. There were fifty-one of these locomotives and a large number, because of their robust construction, survived well into the 1950s' taken from the NRM website

4COR unit 3131 motor car 11179 was built in 1937 and withdrawn by BR in 1972

This wonderful Terence Cuneo canvas of a busy London Waterloo canvas arrived at the NRM in 2007, the first time it has appeared outside of London on public display. It is the largest canvas Cuneo ever painted, measuring a staggering 20ft by 10ft

This is an LNWR Motor open third brake from an EMU of 1915 vintage. It's amazing tis idea was so old and still we have lines run by DMU nearly 100 years on. We could have reduced our carbon footprint long ago

This photo shows 1913 built Pullman Car Company First class parlour car Topaz

31018 (I guess this is D5500 in disguise) is the first example of the Brush Type 2 A1A-A1A locomotive. It was deliverd to British Rail in 1957, just 6 years after the last steam engines were built. According to the NRMs website, in 1957 this loco cost £78043 brand new

BR Class 52 D1023 'Western Fusilier' in the outside hut deemed suitable for some diesel exhibits. I'm sure you'll see Flying Scrapman under here if they can ever afford to fix it!

Chinese 4-8-4 steam locomotive KF1 was donated to the NRM after its operational life ceased. It was built at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows

BR Class 76 26020 built to run on the 1500v DC network was built in 1951, seen here stood next to the Chinese KF1 and a Southern Q1 steam locomotive

41001 is a powercar from the prototype HST in loosely the form it entered service. This is an imposing piece and a great monument to modern British Railways ingenuity

1892 built LNWR 2-4-0 790 'Hardwicke' stands on the turntable in the Great Hall, a testament to the greatest rival of the LNER on the east coast at the time

LBSCR 0-4-2 214 'Gladstone' looks in fine condition around the turntable

GWR 4-6-0 King class 6000 'King George V' stand sabove an inspection pit, to show the unique view avaiable underneath a steam locomotive

Built by BREL at Crewe the Class 87s are one of the greatest and unsung heroes of long distance travel. At the time of introcution they cut nearly 2 hours off the journey between London and Glasgow, able to climb Beattock and Shap, previously fierce gradients for all traincrew, at 90mph. With a continuous output of 5000hp from just an 83 tonne locomotive they truly were a revolution in transport. Compare that to the 2700hp and 117 tonnes of the Class 50s they replaced

And before the Class 50s worked on the WCML, Class 40s such as D200 (40122) worked the top link trains, but were not much of a leap forward from advanced developed steam locomotives such as the Coronation Scots and BR Standard Class 7s (known also as Britannias)

A locomotive that needs no introduction is LNER A4 4-6-2 4468 Mallard. The worlds fastest ever steam locomotive and this finally signalled the end of the tit for tat racing between the WCML and ECML for top honours. It's quite scary to think that this speed would have been achieved on bolted track, 126mph!!!!!!

A replica of 'Rocket' another world famous locomotive, stands besides Mallard

This is the Seires 0 Shinkansen unit, which has the distinction of being the only train NOT built in the UK to grace the NRM. A fantastic piece of engineering that transformed travel throughout Japan. When the project for high speed lines in Japan was first discussed, the English speaking world coined the phrase 'Bullet Train' and when this train emerged it's shape did nothing to harm the nickname. The literal translation of Shinkansen is 'New Trunk Line'. The Series 0 sets were first built in 1963 but production continued until 1986 with the last sets being withdrawn in December 2008 (althoguh not running on a Shinkansen route)

Here is a view taken from the steps into the pit beneath GWR King 6000 'King George V'