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Our Collections
The Museum is home to historic railway exhibits from the early days of the steam railway right up to the present day, for example:
- The early locomotive 'Billy' - built in Newcastle around 1826 and used for hauling coal
- 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.