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National Railway Museum Shildon, also known as Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon or Shildon Locomotion Museum was built during 2004 at a cost of £11.3 million, and is based on the former "Timothy Hackworth Victorian Railway Museum".

The museum is operated in partnership with Durham County Council and was expected to bring 60,000 visitors a year to the small town. However, during its first six months, the museum attracted 94,000 visits. By 2012 visit numbers were exceeding 200,000 a year.

Stephenson Railway Museum is open Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays until 2 November 2014 and all week during school holidays (excluding Christmas holidays). With heritage train rides on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays.

200 years since George Stephenson built his first locomotive Blucher.

A range of fascinating locomotives are on display. The Museum is home to:

Amerton Railway is a mile long 2 foot gauge line with spectacular seasonal specials, regular open days great for family trips, a railway museum and tours available of the Locomotive Shed.

It is home to a 115 year old W.G. Bagnall Saddle tank called Isabel, so important to Stafford that she was placed on a plinth outside of Stafford Railway Station until she was restored.

Come and visit the railway and ride behind this historic engine and others on the scenic 1 mile line.

Get your trainspotters into their anoraks!

It's our exhilarating stream in the sky. Our horseshoe of waterfalls in North East Wales. Our beautiful canal. Not one but two aqueducts. Our World Heritage Site. Breathtaking!

Opened in 1805 the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the longest of Britain's 370 Aqueducts. It is a 1,000 foot span of iron and stone which carries a million and a half litres of water the Ellesmere canal suspended 126 feet above the River Dee like an enormous flying bathtub by 19 pillars.