York has numerous tourist attractions one of which is the National Railway Museum which we spent the morning at today - interestingly the museum is a free entry attraction unlike the majority in this part of the world. Yesterday for example we paid £10.00 each to go into the York Minster.
If you are a train buff or even have a mild interest in rail then this is the place to go. We didn't see Thomas The Tank Engine but there were examples of many other locomotives from the steam era right through to a Shinkansen!
The Gladstone in the top photo is a B1 class loco built in December 1882 and remained in service until April 1927 and is the only preserved B1 class.
Some where in the UK is a railway station with a name we are familiar with and they also have on display the longest place name in Europe and second longest in the world behind our own
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One could spend many hours in this museum but time did not allow so we had to move off to another museum we had wanted to go to - The Jorvik Viking Centre where there are well preserved remains of the Viking city Jorvik which archaeologists discovered in the years 1976-1981.
There is also a tour through an imaginary city which depicts life in that city in the period around 900 AD
Leaving the centre late in the afternoon we then walked another section of the wall around the town, this section perhaps not as scenic as yesterday's section because of the absence of a modern safety rail gave a more realistic impression of how it was in its heyday
Still more to see tomorrow
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