Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center-left of the image. A few foreground stars shine brightly and are easily distinguished by the spikes that appear to extend outward from each star. These spikes, called diffraction spikes, are the […]
Metro control room upgrade is successfully completed
A multi-million-pound upgrade of the Tyne and Wear Metro control room has been successfully completed, providing it with some of the most advanced technology in the railway industry. The £8.8 million project has involved the complete renewal of a system which manages key parts of Metro’s infrastructure, including the high voltage power supply. The Supervisory […]
London to York in 40 minutes!? SCMAGLEV and railway park partnership
What exactly is SCMAGLEV? How and why can Japanese trains travel so fast? What does this new sister museum agreement mean for our museum? Curator Rob Scargill explores Japan’s rail past, present and future as we celebrate this exciting new international partnership.
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National Railway Museum welcomes delegates from Japan on anniversary of bullet-train creator
Visitors from Japan were welcomed to the National Railway Museum in York to cement a new exciting partnership between rail experts in the UK and Japan. Delegates from the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park in Nagoya, Japan, visited the National Railway Museum in York on Wednesday 20 May to sign a sister-partnership to formalise a mutually […]