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The National Railway Museum

On 3 July 1938, A4 class locomotive Mallard raced down Stoke Bank at 126mph to set a new steam locomotive world speed record. That record still stands. For the 75th anniversary of Mallard's achievement, the National Railway Museum brought the 6 remaining A4 class loco's together, temporarily repatriating sister locomotives Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of Canada.

Bittern

Mallard

Dwight D Eisenhower

Sir Nigel Gresley

Union of South Africa

The River Ouse, York

Lendal Bridge

Moorings

 

The Cathedral

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Constantine The Great
AD 274 - 337
Proclaimed Roman Emperor
in York AD 306

 

The Treasurer's House

The Shambles

 

 

St Crux, Pavement


This was the largest medieval parish church in York after its rebuilding in 1424, and a brick tower was added in 1697. It was closed around 1880 after becoming unsafe, and attempts to raise sufficient funds to rebuild it were unsuccessful. It was demolished in 1887, although some of the church's stonework was used to build the St Crux Parish Hall at the bottom of the Shambles. The Hall contains a number of monuments from the old church, and other fittings are now in All Saints, Pavement, to which the parish of St Crux was joined in 1885. Part of the stone wall of the fifteenth-century north aisle is still to be seen, and forms part of the southern exterior wall of no. 23 the Shambles and of the south wall of the Snickelway which leads to Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate. The Hall is currently used as a café.

  

 

 

St Crux, Pavement

Stained Glass window in St Crux