York Railway Museum

 Wednesday 12th February 2025.           York Railway Museum 

A slight change of plan today, even without the guidance of our leader! He’s away sunning himself. So it was down to Colin, Derek, Brian, Dave and Glenn to guide themselves to York instead of walking around Newmiller Dam, cold and inclement weather the main reason for this change. So with all mentioned they climbed aboard the 10:30 train leaving Leeds and heading for the city of York. 

Some 40 minutes later and they were off the train and on their way to the museum just a few hundred yards from the station here in York, with a outside temperature of about 4 degrees it was a relief to get inside the building and explore the grand array of Railway Engines and the many thousands of exhibits on display. The Lads were greatly impressed with the sheer size of some of the Engines , the Evening Star one of the last to be built stood there in all her glory looking spectacular in her Green livery and gleaming copper pipe work, a little hot for Colin and Derek to touch, ouch!

The lads continued their inspections with a climb aboard the Bullet Train and rest awhile whilst watching a video about it’s inception out in Japan, Colin had been fortunately lucky enough to have experience a ride on one of these impressive trains whilst on one of his overseas trips, lucky fellow!

Moving on now and time for a spot of lunch which was taken here in the food hall alongside a few other visitors to the museum, spiced tomato soup and a sandwich was the order of the day for the Lads.

Chance now to discuss future adventures and outings, a visit to Scarborough maybe on the horizon, but second thoughts were given to this. Tim’s visit having to be put on hold for a few weeks, a decision to take a canal side walk in Leeds next week was agreed upon, weather permitting.

With lunch over it was time to discover more of what the museum had to offer and what a lot there was to see. Interesting signalling video and displays about the significance of this rather intricate mechanism and how it as progressed over the years, from waving flags to the modern day fibre optic cables that stretched the length and breadth of the country, impressive to say the least.

Time now for a cuppa before we said farewell to the museum and headed back towards the railway station, our train returning us to Leeds is due to depart at 15:08 platform 11.

Upon reflection today’s outcome was rather interesting and informative a great experience had by all involved.

Cheers Everyone.