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The National Railway Museum at Shildon
The Science Museum Group has chosen architects AOC to design a new building at a railway museum in County Durham.
The £5.4m collection building will house 50 trains, making Locomotion the UK’s biggest rail museum in terms of the number of vehicles it can display: 120.
The project is part of a £6m improvement programme to regenerate the museum’s historic site, a former banana processing plant in Shildon.
AOC was appointed after a competitive design tender which ran earlier in the year. There were 25 bids, mainly from the UK.
The brief was for a sustainable, low-maintenance and low-energy-usage building, which is sympathetic to the local area and accessible for visitors. The final design will feature a lightweight steel frame construction that will be open to the public and will house railway vehicles in a stable environment.