156 Book of Locomotives 



railways has been promised, and it will be 

 necessary to accommodate them. 



There is no regular admission to the 

 museum to the outside public, but railway- 

 men and those of the public sufficiently 

 interested may obtain admission, and a 

 guide, by applying to the Curator of the 

 museum, whose office is at the headquarters 

 of the London and North-Eastern railway 

 at York Station. 



Visitors to Britain from abroad having to 

 pass near York should make a special point 

 of breaking their journey at the famous old 

 city, and divide their time there between 

 the lovely Minster and this unique collection 

 of railway objects. 



Undoubtedly the rolling-stock veterans 

 all will most appeal to the visitor. At the 

 outset Stephenson's famous Hetton Colliery 

 locomotive will claim attention. This is a 

 far greater relic of the past than even the 

 " Rocket " at South Kensington. Not only 

 is it seven years older, but it sustained the 

 heat and burden of the day for no less 

 than 90 years, and then it was pulled from 



