List of railway museums in the United Kingdom

The National Railway Museum, York is the largest railway museum in the United Kingdom

This is a list of railway museums in the United Kingdom Channel Islands and Isle of Man

England

East of England

• Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk
• East Anglian Railway Museum
• Mangapps Railway Museum

Greater London

• Kew Bridge Steam Museum
• London Transport Museum Acton Depot- limited opening days
• London Transport Museum Covent Garden
• Southall Railway Centre
• Walthamstow Pump House Museum

Midlands

• Barrow Hill Roundhouse
• Bishop's Castle Railway Museum
• Cambrian Heritage Railways, Oswestry, Shropshire
• Chasewater Railway Museum, Staffordshire
• Great Central Railway (Nottingham)
• Heritage Shunters Trust
• Kidderminster Railway Museum
• Moseley Railway Trust
• National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire
• North Ings Farm Museum
• Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
• Rushden Station Railway Museum
• Rutland Railway Museum, Rutland
• Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth
• Tyseley Locomotive Works

North East England

• Beamish museum
• Darlington Railway Centre and Museum (Recently renamed: Head of Steam)
• Hopetown Carriage Works
• Locomotion Museum, Shildon, (free entry)
• Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland

• Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields

North West England

• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Astley, Greater Manchester
• Carnforth railway station Heritage Centre, Lancashire
• Crewe Heritage Centre, Crewe
• Hadlow Road railway station, Willaston, Cheshire
• Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Museum, Ravenglass, Cumbria
• Science and Industry Museum, Manchester

South East England

• Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, near Arundel, West Sussex
• Bluebell Railway Museum, Sheffield Park Station, East Sussex
• Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Buckinghamshire
• Colonel Stephens Railways Museum, Tenterden
• Didcot Railway Centre
• Hollycombe Steam Collection
• Isle of Wight Steam Railway and museum
• One:One Collection, Hornby Railways, Margate, Kent (opening soon)
• Pendon Museum near Didcot, Oxfordshire

South West England

• Bere Ferrers railway station
• Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Devon
• Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum
• Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire
• Devon Railway Centre, Devon
• Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
• Shillingstone Railway Project, Dorset
• Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust
• Swanage Railway, Dorset
• Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, Devon
• Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Bridgwater

Yorkshire

• Derwent Valley Light Railway, Murton Park,York
• Middleton Railway, Leeds, West Yorkshire
• Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow, Keighley
• National Railway Museum, York, (free entry)

Scotland

• Museum of Scottish Railways, Bo'ness
• Riverside Museum, Glasgow
• Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life

Wales

• Conwy Valley Railway Museum, Betws-y-Coed
• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum – Tywyn, Gwynedd
• Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
• Vale of Rheidol Railway Museum, Aberystwyth

Northern Ireland

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
• Whitehead Railway Museum

Isle of Man

• Jurby Transport Museum
• Manx Electric Railway Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man
• Port Erin railway museum

Channel Islands

• Pallot Heritage Steam Museum

See also

• List of British heritage and private railways
• Heritage railways in Northern Ireland
• List of heritage railways
• Mountain railway
• List of Conservation topics
• Conservation in the United Kingdom
• List of railway companies
• British Rail

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