Rail Heritage Centre – DANUM 2025

It features some of the Doncaster Grammar School Rail Collection, and have over the years accumulated around a massive 10,000 railway artefacts, with a significant role of the railways in Doncaster's history. Alongside the objects on display are two Doncaster-built locomotives which have returned home to take centre stage in the Danum, and are on loan as part of a partnership between Heritage Doncaster and the National Railway Museum.

Contacts

Address: Danum Gallery, Library & Museums Waterdale Doncaster Yorkshire DN1 3BZ

  • Telephone: 01302 737 555
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Open Days & Times

Mon-Sat. 1000-1700. Sat closes 1600. Visit website or facebook for more details.

Travel

  • By Rail: Doncaster / 0.5 miles

Facilities

  • Refreshments
  • Souvenir Shop
  • Part disabled access

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No. 251 ‘Atlantic’ Locomotive
Built at Doncaster Plant in 1902, the No.251 ‘Atlantic’ locomotive was built for the Great Northern Railway. The design of this class of locomotive meant it was able to pull very heavy passenger trains at considerable speed. No. 251 pulled passenger trains along the East Coast Mainline until it was retired in 1947. It is the only one of its class to survive. The locomotive was restored in 1953 to celebrate the centenary of the Doncaster Plant Works.

Green Arrow
It was built in 1936 at Doncaster Plant Works. It was the first of the V2 class of locomotive to be built at the works. V2 class locomotives have a hard-earned reputation as powerful locomotives. The Green Arrow was withdrawn from British Railways service in 1962 and is the last surviving British 2-6-2 tender locomotive.
The locomotives are accompanied by railway memorabilia from the Doncaster Grammar School railway collection. The school, now Hall Cross Academy, set up a railway society in the 1930s and have been collecting railway memorabilia ever since. Public access to the collection was very limited, and the display of some of the collection in the rail heritage centre marks an exciting new chapter in the Society and in the significant role of the railways in Doncaster’s history.

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