Model of the Wylam Dilly locomotive, made in the Museum workshop to a scale of 4 inches to 1 foot, 1885, the original designed and constructed by William Hedley in 1813

Length of Birkenshaw rail laid in 1815 at Killingsworth, one of a group of specimens illustrating the history and development of railway permanent way

Working model of the Victoria, scale 1:8, c. 1837, an early form of locomotive designed by Edward Bury and built by Edward Bury and Co., Liverpool, c. 1830, for the London and Birmingham Railway

Short length of fish-bellied rail from the Halbeath Tram Way, constructed in 1780 to Inverkeithing and used for coal traffic, one of a collection of specimens illustrating the early history of railway permanent way in Scotland

One of a collection of specimens illustrating the early history of railway permanent way in Scotland - a chair for a wrought iron rail from the Elgin Tram Way between Dunfermline and Charlestown

One of a collection of specimens illustrating the early history of railway permanent way in Scotland - a single-headed rail from the Elgin Tram Way between Dunfermline and Charlestown, pre - 1850

One of a collection of specimens illustrating the early history of railway permanent way in Scotland - a single-headed rail from the Elgin Tram Way between Dunfermline and Charlestown, pre - 1850

Length of cast iron fish-bellied rail from the Elgin Tram Way, constructed between Dunfermline and Charlestown, one of a collection of specimens illustrating the early history of railway permanent way in Scotland

Front bicycle wheel fitted with the first pneumatic tyre, made of Arbroath sailcloth and India rubber, invented and made by John Boyd Dunlop, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1888

"Rover" safety bicycle with solid rubber tyres, made by J.K. Starley of Starley & Sons, Coventry, c. 1888

Chain driven Albion motor car with a two cylinder engine and low tension magneto ignition, built by the Albion Motor Car Company Ltd, Finnieston Street, Glasgow, 1900

Arnold-Benz motor car with a single cylinder horizontal engine, built by Messrs Arnold of Paddock Wood, Kent, in 1897, the engine and other important parts probably made by Benz and Co., Mannheim

Holden motor bicycle with a four cylinder engine, built in 1895 by Colonel H.C.L. Holden, C.B., F.R.S.

Model of Murdoch's Locomotive, with steering wheel in front and two driving wheels connected by a cranked axle behind, copy of the c. 1784 original by William Murdoch in Birmingham Art Gallery, made by Twining Models Ltd., Northampton, 1926

Model of an Atlantic type express passenger locomotive to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot, the original built in 1907 by the North British Locomotive Co. Ltd, Glasgow

Model of a Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway six-coupled bogie type locomotive and tender, made to a scale of 3/4 of an inch to 1 foot by Adam Gilbert of Wallsend-on-Tyne