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‘A hub of humanity’: National Railway Museum space reopens after £11m refit

Station Hall displays from a microwave-burger box to royal carriages intended to showcase best and worst of rail travel

There is Queen Victoria’s funeral wreath, a station ticket kiosk allegedly used by Rod Stewart and then an object so important it comes on its own plinth: the last ever microwave-burger box before the introduction of “deli-style” meals on GNER trains.

“I can remember having a cheeseburger on the train coming down from Aberdeen to London in the 1990s,” said Andrew McLean with fondness.

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