British National Railway Museum

We visited the railway museum in York. Admittance is free, you just pay a reasonable fee to park in their parking lot all day.

 The museum resides in an old roundhouse with a working turntable in the middle.

 One of the engines has been turned into a very well done cutaway model.

 Yellow paint is for fire, blue for water.

 Yes, leaf springs. No, I don't understand.

 We noticed this nice model railway in the back room...

 On reading the placard, we found out that it was not a model railway, but a training school for signalling.

 An old iron overhead footbridge has been transplanted into the museum.

 A track-side water spout. Steam engines go through a lot of water.

 The interior of a luxury passenger coach.

 Copper kettle steam engine.

 This extra-long locomotive was built by the British for the Chinese Communists. China returned it to be placed in the museum. It was surprisingly ugly.

 A replica of one of the very early steam engines...

Looks like it was made from a barrel.