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National Railway Museum explains its EMU Preservation Policy |
| The December 2006 issue of our members'
magazine Live Rail was the second that year to focus on EMU
preservation issues. Within is a feature by Ed Bartholomew, Collections Manager of the National Railway Museum, explaining the
NRM's planning to implement "NRM Plus" - the evolution from being a museum of
the railway industry to a museum of the railway users. As the current collection and
future acquisitions are re-evaluated electric traction, including EMUs, will play an
increasingly important part of representing the ways - for better and worse - that
passengers have been transported in large numbers. Below, courtesy of the National Railway Museum, are
illustrations of the earliest EMU vehicles in the National Collection.
(top left) Southern Railway 1925 suburban motor third brake 8143 (often incorrectly described as being from a 4 Sub unit but it is originally from a "3" unit) posed outside the NRM alongside new Networker unit 465209 during a ceremony to launch the Networker units. Compare and contrast the changes to Southern inner suburban units over some 65 years! (top right) Interior of a third compartment in 8143. (bottom left) Not Southern, but suburban electric stock from ten years earlier than 8143, the London & North Western Railway Oerlikon motor open third brake, plus (bottom right) its interior. National Railway Museum copyright pictures, reproduced with permission and thanks. |
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This page updated
23rd June 2007 by Colin Duff. |
