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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘A hub of humanity’: National Railway Museum space reopens after £11m refit

A steam train at a platform next to an advert for a happy holidays guide
Station Hall at the National Railway Museum in York, which has reopened after a full refurbishment. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

There is Queen Victoria’s funeral wreath, a station ticket kiosk allegedly used by Rod Stewart and then an object so important it comes on its own plinth: the last ever microwave-burger box before the introduction of “deli-style” meals on GNER trains.

“I can remember having a cheeseburger on the train coming down from Aberdeen to London in the 1990s,” said Andrew McLean with fondness.

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