Category:The Great Hall, National Railway Museum, York

English: The Great Hall is the main exhibition area of the National Railway Museum in York. It houses the turntable in the northern half, and the most famous of the rolling stock exhibits like the Mallard locomotive. Its high ceiling also allows the housing of other permanent and semi permanent exhibits including a signal gantry and footbridge. On a mezzanine level on the west side of the hall is Search Engine, a research and archive facility. Beneath that is the Signal Box cafe.

The turntable is accessed through roller shutters in the north facade which is also occupied by a car park, allowing exhibits to be interchanged. There are two tracks feeding into the turntable from outside.

Adjacent to the hall, adjoining it on both the east and south walls, is the building that houses the Warehouse (in its northern part) and the Works (southern part). At ground level through the east wall of the hall, people can pass from the Great Hall into the warehouse, via the The Flying Scotsman Story exhibition. An inclinater installed in the south wall of the hall allows people to pass into a mezanine level viewing gallery, which runs alongside the Warehouse and then diagonally across the Works.

As well as all the display tracks eminating from the turntable, the hall also contains some tracks in the south east corner. These enter the hall from the north through a single exterior roller door 53°57′38.4″N 1°5′44.84″W / 53.960667°N 1.0957889°W / 53.960667; -1.0957889 tucked away in the corner where the east wall of the hall meets the north wall of the warehouse/works building. They then fan out south across the floor of the hall, splitting into three tracks that then enter the Works via three internal roller doors.