Brilliant free museum for young and old. Good selection of trains & rolling stock. Easily visited by train but quite a walk from the station. Especially worth visiting when they have events as I did. You can make a no obligation donation as you leave.
Lovely place. Free entry donations only. Don't be shy. Good day out for the family. There's a gift shop, cafe, outside hot drinks stand. We'll worth a visit. Staff are very hopeful and knowledgeable
Went on 29th Dec to see the Flying Scotsman with my two sons and we had a brilliant day out. Locomotion is an excellent place to visit and the exhibits are superb. I think it's being extended as well for the future. Obviously the Flying Scotsman was the star but there was so much else to see including Stephenson's Rocket and some great history. The wait to go onto the FS footplate was up to two hours though.
We visited today as a family with a very excited little boy who was desperate to see The Flying Scotsman. Parking was rather frustrating. In the website it advised using the car park at the ‘collection building’ as there main car park is currently under construction. The only problem was: we had no idea where that was as never been before and it wasn’t highlighted on the map… We queued for a good 20mins before we got to the gates of the main car park where a member of staff was managing cars in and out. We asked him about the additional car park and he said he had been told nothing about it. I feel this is maybe something that could be looked at. When we did get parked and we squelched through the mud bath of a car park we were not disappointed. (Don’t wear your best shoes!) The Flying Scotsman was there right out the front in all its glory. Thankfully the 90+ mins to step onboard was inside the museum otherwise we would have got rather soggy. A really nice laid out museum with lots to see and different activities for little ones to get involved in. The gift shop was great…. Could have spent a fortune in there! Cafe looked nice but after spending a fair amount of our visit queuing to get on TFS we didn’t fancy the long queue for refreshments. Overall a nice visit.
Very good free museum with some interesting trains and a challenging little train ride. We only had a couple of hours here but enjoyed looking at all the trains. The ride on the Rocket involved more flying ash than I'd anticipated but still worth doing (once would have been enough though - they didn't need to take us twice).
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Shildon, County Durham, DL4
4.6/5
A friendly members club, venue and evolving facility for the people of Shildon and beyond in the most recent home of the first Railway Institute in the world which has been in existence from 1833 to present day.
Shildon, County Durham, DL4
4.5/5
