There is a small rail museum in the town which operates a steam train on the first and third Sunday of each month.

Out of 1240 built by the company, only about five have survived to be restored and operated by rail museums.

Two weeks ago The Northern Echo reported that Darlington council had not given any money to help mark the occasion at the rail museum.

The city has a rail museum with various displays showing its rail history.

The Illinois Railway Museum has the most extensive physical plant of any rail museum in North America.

Goulburn City Council took out a lease on the roundhouse hoping to establish a national rail museum.

Sorocaba has a rail museum.

The car was given to danbury rail museum in 1997.

Valley Heights has a railway station, rail museum and the historic Gatekeepers cottage where the railway guard lived in the steam era.

Mr Free's next vision is to create a rail museum to celebrate 150 years of rail in Sunbury.