The National Railway Museum in York is part, together with four other museums in the United Kingdom (The Science Museum in South Kensington, The National Railway Museum in York, Locomotion in County Durham, The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford) of the Science Museum Group .

The National Railway Museum in York is a museum of UK rail transport and its history.

In addition, this museum houses important relics and objects belonging to the national collection of railway vehicles.

Altogether, around a million objects are collected and particularly valuable are the models of locomotives reconstructed inside the museum spaces: the world's fastest steam engine Mallard, a replica of George Stephenson's pioneering Rocket and the only train bullet outside of Japan.