PEOPLE in a North-East town with a rich railway heritage are being asked to share their own histories with visitors to the region's first national museum.

Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon is giving residents of the town an opportunity to tell their own stories as part of a community archive project called Time Tracks.

The museum will host a coffee morning session tomorrow, at 10am. Visitors are asked to add to the Time Tracks collection by taking along photographs, documents and sharing their memories.

The archive, designed to record railway heritage from the view of the people who lived through it, will go on display at the museum soon.

Projects officer Sarah Joyce said: "We are interested in photographs or memorabilia such as tickets, menus or event programmes which are associated with people's memories of the railways."

Staff will be available at the event to help people input their contribution to the easy-to-use computer database.