{"id":648561,"date":"2026-06-20T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:36:14","slug":"steam-engine-moved-from-london-to-national-railway-museum-in-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648561\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam engine moved from London to National Railway Museum in York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An 18-tonne steam locomotive has made a 213-mile journey by road from London to its new home in York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Columbine, which was built in 1845, has been transported from the Science Museum in South Kensington to the National Railway Museum (NRM), where it is now on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The engine was initially moved from the NRM to be part of a new exhibition at the London site in 2000, where it had stayed for more than a quarter of a century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now the locomotive and its tender, a special rail car coupled to the engine which carries fuel and water, are on show together for the first time in 26 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-tonne steam locomotive has made a 213-mile journey by road from London to its new home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}