Road trip to York in 2020 - Part 3 (York)

After viewing the York Railway Museum, we decided to explore the ancient cathedral city of York. After a short walk form the Railway Museum we came across the ancient Roman wall. There is an entrance staircase to the York wall and decided to explore it. Below are some photos I took, 

Entry point to the York Wall (Micklegate Bar)

Daffodil Flowers growing beside the York wall

We walked on the part of York wall for around 15 minutes until we came to end where exit near the Skeldergate Bridge over river Ouse. The water level was high due to the storms that landed in UK several days ago, and seen several families of ducks with their chicks enjoying the sunny weather.   

River Ouse

Skeldergate Bridge

Ducks in River Ouse

Skeldergate Bridge & River Ouse in York

After walking another 10 minutes we came across a magnificent view of Clifford's Tower, the keep of York Castle.  

Clifford's Tower from afar

Clifford's Tower entrance

     

Entrance to this is not free, I think it cost £6 per adult ticket. From the top you can view the surrounding York city clearly.

View of York Castle Museum

Surrounding View from Clifford's Tower

After several hours of walking around the city we felt tired and decided to walk back to the car and go to the airbnb place to have a rest. On the way we come across several parks with blooming flowers as it was early spring.

After resting that night, next morning we decided to cut our journey short and head back home as it was started to spread Covid-19 virus in UK. After one week returning from York, UK government decided imposed the lockdown in UK. Although we did not manage to explore all the places in York, we are thinking going to revisit York again once everything get back to normal.

Enjoy! 

Road trip to York in 2020 - Part 2 (York Railway Museum)

On the next day we decided to explore the ancient city of York and its surrounding although the wether seems to be gloomy. So decided to visit indoor attraction first.

One of the most popular places to visit in York is the York railway museum which is one of the largest train museums in the UK. We park the car in the York Commuter car park next to the York railway museum and paid for £8 for 6 hours of parking.

York railway museum admission is free of charge and you can give a donation to help to run this incredible museum.

They had a huge model railway with several running trains as the photos below, which was amazing.

This museum contains all the history of the train from the beginning. Following are some photos I took. 

Cross section of steam engine

Cross section of steam engine

They have lovely cafeteria area in middle of the trains you can enjoy a cup of tea with some snacks. As it was near to the lunch time and we were hungry after walking around decided have some sandwiches and a hot drink from the lovely cafe.

GREAT HALL CAFÉ

The museum have their own workshop, so that they can renovate train engines and carriages for the museum. There is a viewing balcony so you view how the team of engineers and craftspeople working on train engines and carriages. 

York Railway Museum Workshop

Railway Signals Work Model

We spent around 2 hours going through each exhibits and enjoyed the history of the trains. This train museum is highly recommended if you are visiting York as you can enjoy learning stuffs about train and learning the history.

After finishing viewing the York train museum we decided to explore the York city as it started to become sunny over York.


To be continued...