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The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It has won many awards, including the European Museum of the Year Award in 2001. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant railway vehicles, as well as a collection of other artefacts and both written and pictorial records. ==Overview== The National Railway Museum in York displays a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 300 other items of rolling stock, virtually all of which either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built there. Also on the site are many hundreds of thousands of other items and records of social, technical, artistic and historical interest, exhibited mostly in three large halls of a former motive power depot next to the East Coast Main Line, near York railway station. It is the largest museum of its type in Britain, attracting 727,000 visitors during the 2014/15 financial year (the largest in the world in terms of floor area of exhibition buildings is La Cité du Train in the French town of Mulhouse, although this attracts far fewer visitors than the National Railway Museum). The National Railway Museum was established on its present site, the former York North locomotive depot, in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways collection located in Clapham and the York Railway Museum located off Queen Street, immediately to the south east of the railway station;〔(Original York Railway Museum )〕 since then, the collection has continued to grow. The museum is a short walk from the railway station in York, either on the road or via a staircase from the rear of the platforms. A "roadtrain" runs from the city centre (near York Minster) to the museum on Leeman Road during half term, holidays and summer. York Park and Ride also serve the museum from the car park entrance, on Line 2 (Rawcliffe Bar-York). Admission to the museum has been free since 2001. It is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm from February to November and 10am to 5pm during the winter months. Locomotion – the National Railway Museum in Shildon, County Durham was opened in October 2004 and is operated by the NRM in conjunction with Durham County Council.〔"Prime Minister opens Shildon Locomotion museum" ''The Railway Magazine'' issue 1244 December 2004 page 5〕 It houses more of the National Collection in a new building and a historic site around the former workshop of Timothy Hackworth and in the most recent full year for which figures have been published (2011–2012), it attracted more than 210,000 visitors. National Railway Museum, York (1981).JPG|The Great Hall (1981) Mallardnrmyork.JPG|4468 ''Mallard'' at the National Railway Museum York (2009) 31018BRD.JPG|Class 31 No. 31018 on display in the Great Hall (2006) 089-SFEC-YORK-20070827.JPG| A Japanese 0 Series Shinkansen (No.22-141) at the NRM (2007) Hogwarts_Express_at_York.jpg|Visiting Hogwarts Express engine 5972 'Olton Hall' (2004) George Stephenson Statue National Railway Museum.JPG|Statue of George Stephenson in the Great Hall 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Railway Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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