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Museum on a train marks 200th railway anniversary

Stuart HarrattEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Jack Boskett/Railway 200 A group of schoolchildren try out an interactive exhibition in a railway carriage converted into a museum. The exhibit is a large sandpit on to which a railway line and landscape is being projected. In the foreground, a girl with ginger hair, wearing a white shirt, places her hand on to the sand. To the left, a boy with short dark hair, also wearing a white shirt with a backpack, places his hand on the sand. Other children can be seen in the background.Jack Boskett/Railway 200
The Inspiration train museum features interactive exhibits

A mobile museum celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the railway has arrived at Hull station.

The train, named Inspiration, features interactive exhibits covering the past, present and future of rail travel, organisers said.

Designed in conjunction with the National Railway Museum in York, the exhibition has seen more than 70,000 people visit during its UK-wide tour.

The train will be in Hull until 7 June before it heads to Weardale Railway in County Durham.

The tour began last year and will visit 60 locations as part of the bicentenary of the world's first rail passenger service.

It marks the event on 27 September 1825 when George Stephenson's steam-powered Locomotion No.1 travelled 26 miles (42km) between Shildon, Darlington and Stockton, carrying hundreds of people.

Free tickets can be booked via the Inspiration website.

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