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Welcome

This site was launched as part of the National Railway Museum's Railfest 2004 - commemorating 200 years of the railway.

200 years after the first train journey, Moving Stories set out to capture a global snapshot of the railways' impact on all of our lives, collecting stories about rail travel and journeys through the ages: fiction, non-fiction, anecdotes and poems from around the world. 200 stories have now been selected to form a permanent archive, drawn from a wide range of ages and nationalities, telling of their experiences or imaginative ventures. Click on any of the carriages below to read the stories inside and find inspiration for writing of your own.

View the series of daily columns by the writer in residence, Ian McMillan.
Retrace the progress of the project by reading how Ian inspired hundred of writers both in person at the NRM and online... click here
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