‘Think like an engineer’: Wonderlab to open at National Railway Museum

Interactive exhibits in 6m gallery aim to spark children's imaginations and an interest in engineering

This one takes a bit more effort," said Lorna Hogger, energetically spinning a wheel to slowly lift rubber balls into a rollercoaster network of metal tubes high in the air. They whiz round and thud out and a lesson is learned about how complicated things are often simpler than they seem.

Elsewhere there is a wind tunnel, a create-your-own hydrogen rocket, fun with marbles, and the chance to see how much better and brilliant everyone looks when filmed with an infrared camera.