Designed by AOC Architects, the new building at Locomotion was originally due to open in 2022 but was delayed as a result of the pandemic. The exhibition will also be displayed at Shildon Library ...

Plans have been revealed for a £5.9m collection building at the National Railway Museum's County Durham site. The low-energy use facility will give the Locomotion museum in Shildon extra space to ...

LOCOMOTION No 1 has been moved under tight security from Darlington’s Head of Steam to begin its new life at the Locomotion museum in Shildon.

The Rocket was designed by George and Robert Stephenson in 1829 and has gone on display in Shildon.

Plans to create an extensive new garden at the Locomotion railway museum in Shildon are steaming ahead. The Locomotion Railway Garden will stretch across the museum's kilometre-long site ...

Locomotion, Shildon. Image by Thu Ya Win. You are here: ... De Matos Ryan won a separate contest for a £3 million child-focused Wonderlab gallery at the same museum in March. According to the brief: ...

Locomotion is built close to the site of Shildon Works, a once thriving railway workshop employing thousands of people which closed in June 1984. Sarah Price, head of the museum, described its new ...

Locomotion in Shildon is set to reopen its doors to the public on the July 28 after closing following government guidance. The site has undergone a few changes including a rigorous cleaning regime ...

For it was from here that the first ever passenger train – George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 – departed for Darlington on September 27, 1825, with up to 600 people on board. In the following years, ...

Rocket arrives at Shildon's Locomotion rail museum. 1 March 2023. Share Save. Share Save. National Railway Museum. The Rocket arrived in Shildon on Wednesday ahead of going on display on Friday.

Locomotion announced it has completed the movement of 46 vehicles into a new £8 million building at its site in Shildon, County Durham. A locomotive is moved into Locomotion’s New Hall in ...