Stephenson Railway Museum

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:

• The early locomotive 'Billy' - built in Newcastle around 1826 and used for hauling coal - a forerunner of the world-famous Rocket.
• Steam and diesel locomotives used on Tyneside and elsewhere from as early as the 1880s
• An electrically-powered parcels van of 1904 from the pioneering Tyneside suburban electric railway system
• An electric locomotive - built in 1909 for use on a colliery line
• A fleet of passenger coaches from the 1950s.