SE5952 : The Stirling Single
taken 3 years ago, near to York, England
This was one of the locomotives that took part in the "Race to the North" in 1888, which accounts for her long preservation. The definitive account of this mad contest is in the book 'The Railway Race to the North' by O S Nock. (Ian Allan 1958).
The number 1 on the buffer beam is, of course, an affectation. The first locomotive number 1 of the GNR was a 2-2-2 "Small Sharp" built in 1847, twenty-three years earlier.
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 here.
The museum first opened in 1975, housed in the huge former steam locomotive depot at Leeman Road next to the East Coast Main Line, near York railway station and only 700m from York Minster. In 1990, the Station Hall opened in York’s former railway goods depot across Leeman Road, nearly doubling the size of the museum in the process. The former diesel depot adjacent to the Great Hall was added as a store and in 1999 this was rebuilt to become “The Works”, providing public access to the Museum’s collections stores and workshops and a viewing gallery overlooking York Station. Today, the NRM is one of Britain’s busiest museums and is possibly the most popular railway museum in the world, attracting 931,000 visitors in 2013 Link.
- Grid Square
- SE5952, 1105 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Bob Harvey (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Thursday, 8 September, 2022 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 16 October, 2022
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SE 5938 5202 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:57.6519N 1:5.7883W - Camera Location
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OSGB36:
- View Direction
- North-northwest (about 337 degrees)