Architect Austin-Smith:Lord’s design for Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham, has been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year and the Conservation Awards.


Do the locomotion
Do the locomotion


Opened in September the £11m attraction is the first national museum to be built in the North-east. It combines the historic buildings and railway workshops of the Timothy Hackworth Museum in Shildon with a 557 m2 building that houses more than 70 locomotives.