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www.nrm.org.uk
The biggest and best railway museum in the world - locomotives
/ carriages / wagons, plus working signalling exhibits,
demonstration lines and more and more.
www.railfest2004.co.uk
Railfest - a celebration of 200 years of rail travel, National
Railway Museum, York.
www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk
The famous Didcot Railway Centre - a great collection of
ex Great Western Railway trains, engines and equipment
- there's a short running line - More than just a day
out!
www.steam-museum.org.uk
Great Western Railway museum Swindon - static displays
- 10 locomotives.
www.krm.org.uk
Kidderminster Railway Museum - part of a visit to the Severn
Valley Railway - host to many RAILART exhibitions.
www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Open-air working museum opposite Amberley mainline station
in Sussex. Narrow gauge demostration line, vintage bus
rides... it takes a long day to see it all.
www.beamish.org.uk
Demonstration tram lines and wagon-ways. Hundreds of railway
exhibits.
www.ltmuseum.co.uk
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden London - extensive
interactive displays of steam and electric locomotives,
coaching stock, buses, trolley buses, trams etc...
www.vintagetrains.co.uk/brm.htm
Birmingham Railway Museum - Tyseley... major express locomotive
restoration works. Vintage Trains run regular steam services
to Stratford from here.
www.hackworthmuseum.co.uk
Timothy Hackworth Victorian and Railway Museum - building
a 1 mile steam railway that will soon connect to the
Shildon railway Village.
www.earm.co.uk
The East Anglian Transport Museum at Chappel and Wakes
Colne (Essex/Suffolk border) features a restored Great
Eastern station with many steam and diesel locos.
www.ironbridge.org.uk
Coalbrookdale Museum Ironbridge in Shropshire - open-air
displays include standard and narrow gauge exhibits -
plus a narrow gauge demonstation line.
www.drcm.org.uk
Darlington Railway Centre - restored station buildings,
locos and rolling stock - is home to the replica A1 LNER
pacific Tornado.
www.ntsra.freeserve.co.uk
Stephenson Railway Museum and North Tyneside Railway. Steam,
diesel and electric locos running on a 2 mile standard
gauge demonstration line.
www.southeasternandchathamrailway.org.uk
The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Society. The Society
was founded in 1973 to promote interest in the South Eastern
and Chatham Railway and its two constituent companies: the
London Chatham and Dover Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
www.musee-orsay.fr
The Museum D'Orsay in Paris, is a world-class art gallery. On display are works
by Degas, Renoir, Manet, Cezanne etc... all housed in this magnificent ex-mainline
railway station (cathedral). |