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Model of the Wylam Dilly locomotive, made in the Museum workshop to a scale of 4 inches to 1 foot, 1885, the original designed and constructed by William Hedley in 1813

Working model of the Victoria, scale 1:8, c. 1837, an early form of locomotive designed by Edward Bury and built by Edward Bury and Co., Liverpool, c. 1830, for the London and Birmingham Railway

Model of Murdoch's Locomotive, with steering wheel in front and two driving wheels connected by a cranked axle behind, copy of the c. 1784 original by William Murdoch in Birmingham Art Gallery, made by Twining Models Ltd., Northampton, 1926

Model of an Atlantic type express passenger locomotive to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot, the original built in 1907 by the North British Locomotive Co. Ltd, Glasgow

Model of a Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway six-coupled bogie type locomotive and tender, made to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 1 foot by Adam Gilbert of Wallsend-on-Tyne

Working model of the Rocket locomotive to a scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot, sectioned to show working and internal arrangement, by Messrs Bassett Lowke Ltd, c. 1937

Model of Alma class broad gauge locomotive 'Hirondelle', made to a scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot, by Bassett-Lowke Ltd, Northampton, 1937

Coal-burning, steam powered working model of the Great Northern Railway locomotive 'Caledonia', in a glass case, built by David Veitch in 1883

Model of Caledonian Railway single locomotive No. 76 of 1862, complete with tender, to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Express passenger locomotive and tender, L.N.E.R. No. 246 Morayshire, class D49, 4-4-0, with piston valves and Walschaert valve gear, and built in Darlington in 1928 and designed by Sir Nigel Gresley

Model of railway locomotive, experimental coal-burning gas turbine locomotive designed and build by North British Locomotive Co. Ltd of Glasgow with turbines by C.A. Parsons Co. Ltd of Newcastle in 1952, made by Sinclair Model Engineering Co. of Glasgow, 1950s or 1960s

Industrial locomotive, with the name Ellesmere, built by Hawthorns and Co. of Leith in 1861 for a colliery at Leigh, Lancashire, where it worked until 1957

Working model of a typical Stephenson locomotive, the Edina, with inside cylinders, outside frame, domed firebox and 2-2-2 wheel configuration, made in 1840, the original built by R.B. Longridge and Co. of Bedlington, Northumberland

Injection moulded body shell for 00 gauge model of LNER A4 class locomotive, in post war form with double chimney and mini side valances, made in 1989

Model of a London and North Western Railway 4-4-2 tank locomotive, made by Gbr Bing for Basset-Lowke of Northampton, dates from the early 20th century

Wylam Dilly, a railway locomotive constructed by William Hedley, 1813, used to pull coal along the Wylam Wagonway to the river, near Newcastle upon Tyne