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- The crane interactive where budding crane operators can load the rail wagon with a range of cargo.
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- Blank walls brought to life with the story of the wagons.
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- Looking out of the completed Covered Carriage Truck.
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- Watching the specially made films using archive footage produced by the British Transport Film Unit now in the Brtitish Film Institute and contemporay from the modern rail freight industry about the carriage of goods on the railways.
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- The Covered Carriage Truck.
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- Former MP for Sunderland and Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s North East Committee Chris Mullen and Mayor of Sunderland, Councillor Norma Wright cut the ribbon to officially open the Wagon Shed at Monkwearmouth Station Museum.
After three years in the planning and creation, the Wagon Sheds were opened to the public on 22 October. One week later, on 29 October 2011, they were officially opened by former Sunderland MP and current Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s North East Committee by the cutting of a ribbon.