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The National Railway Museum in York, England is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. The Museum contains an unrivalled collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment, documents and records
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The website of Europe's "Museum of the Year" has a wealth of information about the history of railways and locomotion. In addition to physical archives that include over 100 engines, and thousands of train related items, the National Railway Museum also has an archive. The Archive is one of Britain's major reference sources for the study of railway history, containing millions of photographs, charts, maps, posters and books. The Photographic archive alone includes 1.4 million prints. Each of the eight collections (from books, to photographs to engineering drawings) provides a web page describing in depth the nature of the collection. Five exhibits provide greater depth to a few of the millions of items in the Museum's collections. These exhibits generally focus on railway photography and art.