User talk:Railways of Britain
Introduction: The North Woolwich Railway Museum[1] is London’s only dedicated railway museum. It was opened in 1984 by HRH the Queen Mother who arrived on site by 2 carriages of the royal train hauled by LNER class A3 Flying Scotsman[2]. The station building needed extensive works to return it to prime condition as it had seen much abuse and vandalism since its closure in 1979 with the opening of the new station[3].
What is there: The buildings lower floor, which was once the booking office and waiting room, contains display cabinets containing artefacts from the Great Eastern and London North Eastern Railway periods. There are Station signs on the walls and very helpful staff which are ready to show one round or provide any information on the station or the former railway.
In the station proper there is a miniature railway operated on weekends running along the former island platform that provided 2 platform faces. The 3rd platform was modified in 1979 for the opening of the new station. Separating the main line from the museum site is a wooden fence that runs along the former track-bed of the centre relief road allowing engines off the turntable that was once sited here but was destroyed during the war[4]
The museum has 2 locomotives both with local industrial interest, though sadly neither are in use.
The future: Sadly, the future of the museum could be in doubt with the pending closure of the North London line from Stratford to North Woolwich presently operated by Silverlink trains[5] which is anticipated to be in 2007 to make way for the DLR extension to King George V and Woolwich proper[6].
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