Do you have a photograph of your visit to the National Railway Museum in York at any time over the last fifty years? If so, the Museum would like to see it!

The Museum, which has the largest collection of railway objects in the world, will celebrate its half-century next year and plans to display visitors’ photos.

Its celebration, dubbed NRM50, will share images that it hopes will include old photographs of childhood visits during the Museum’s early days as well as more recent snaps.

The Museum is asking people to email their photographs to [email protected] by Friday 15 November 2024.

The National Railway Museum opened in September 1975, on the 150th anniversary of the first passenger journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

While the passenger railway celebrates its bicentenary next year, the National Railway Museum will celebrate its half-century.

It was the first national museum outside of London. It welcomed 630,306 visitors in 2023, making it the region’s most-visited attraction.

A total of around forty million people have visited the National Railway Museum and its sister venue, Locomotion.

The Museum’s collection includes more than 260 railway vehicles, thousands of railway objects, and over 1.75 million documents, photographs and artwork.

The Museum is planning a series of celebratory events throughout 2025. It will also be expanding, with work starting in spring on its new welcome building, Central Hall.

The project has already provided popular new facilities Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery at the National Railway Museum and New Hall, a new forty-vehicle collections building at Locomotion.

“The National Railway Museum was always an exciting family day out. My grandad worked on the railways and would tell us all sorts of stories as we went around. Those visits inspired a lifelong love for the museum and a passion for science and heritage.”

Pete Livesey, who works as a Digital Analyst