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Pictured: The National Railway Museum reopening in August 2020 after the easing of lockdown
The National Railway Museum and universities across Yorkshire and the north of England will investigate the possible links between railways and the global slave trade as part of a £9,000 research project.
Staff at the museum have also previously raised concerns about the train that carried Winston Churchill's coffin in 1965, which they said could become the focus of protest due to his links to 'colonialism and empire'.Ĭoncerns were also raised about George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket steam engine which staff said could attract protests because the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Robert's benefactor, had links to profits made through the slave trade. Objects highlighted by staff include an 1896 Cape Government Railway locomotive, the Chinese Government Railways KF7 locomotive and a quarter-scale model of a Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway locomotive, according to museum documents. The newspaper said internal documents at the museum showed staff found 'little interpretation that addresses the railways' role in empire' in its collection of almost 300 locomotives. The Science Museum Group, of which the National Railway Museum is part, has been reassessing the legacy of rail travel and colonialism after last year's Black Lives Matter protests, The Telegraph reports.