Young visitors to York's National Railway Museum can take part in a live link-up with Australia next week - but there won't be an Olympic athlete in sight.
More than 130 pupils from St Wilfrid's RC School in York will take part in a special jubilee lecture to launch the museum's new education programme.
The lecture is aimed at bringing technology to life for potential engineers of the future and could become an annual event.
Youngsters will get a rare chance to explore the elaborate Dynamometer car used to record the Mallard's world-beating run in 1936, and then join the NRM team to demonstrate how a locomotive can now be monitored live 10,000 miles away using equipment no bigger than a shoebox.
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