A PAIR of young train enthusiasts have helped a railway museum recreate nostalgic pictures from 1960s York Station ahead of its Trainspotting Season.

Ben and Harry Lumb, eight and 10, from Acomb, York, recreated numerous pictures of schoolboy spotters sneaking into grimy engine sheds, sent to the National Railway Museum as part of its preparation for the September to March exploration of the theme of trainspotting.

The season’s big opening event the Great York Shed Bash is set to appeal to a whole generation of schoolboys now grown-up, with a big celebration of the hobby, featuring a headline talk from curator Bob Gwynne who recently hit the headlines with his research uncovering that a Victorian teenage girl was one of the earliest trainspotters.

There will also be the premiere of a filmed performance of Love Me Tender, a new poem by Ian McMillan commissioned in response to the trainspotting theme.

Attendees to the ticketed Shed Bash will also get the chance to get hands on with locos in the collection associated with the heyday of schoolboy spotting including Western Fusilier, Evening Star and King George V.

Amy Banks, exhibitions manager at the National Railway Museum said: “With our trainspotting season we want to explore the past and present of the pastime - collecting and documenting, adventure, travel and mischief, the sense of anticipation and the drama of the train arriving.”

Trainspotting runs from Friday, September 26 to March 1, 2015 at the National Railway Museum. For more information about The Great York Shed Bash and the Trainspotting Season visit www.nrm.org.uk/trainspotting.

Pictures and stories can be posted on the museum’s website, http://www.nrm.org.uk/NRM/GetInvolved/trainspotting.aspx. Images can also be submitted via twitter using #trainspotting @railwaymuseum.