List of railway museums in the United Kingdom facts for kids

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.

England

• Amberley Working Museum, Arundel, West Sussex
• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Astley, Greater Manchester
• Bahamas Locomotive Society
• Barrow Hill Roundhouse
• Beamish museum
• Bere Ferrers railway station
• Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Devon
• Bishop's Castle Railway Museum
• Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk
• Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum
• Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Buckinghamshire
• Cambrian Heritage Railways, Oswestry, Shropshire
• Chasewater Railway Museum, Staffordshire
• Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire
• Colonel Stephens Railways Museum, Tenterden
• Crewe Heritage Centre, Crewe
• Darlington Railway Centre and Museum (Recently renamed: Head of Steam)
• Devon Railway Centre, Devon
• Didcot Railway Centre
• Doncaster Railway Works, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
• Great Central Railway (Nottingham)
• East Anglian Railway Museum
• Heritage Shunters Trust
• Hollycombe Steam Collection
• Hopetown Carriage Works
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum
• Kidderminster Railway Museum
• London Transport Museum
• Locomotion, Shildon, County Durham (free entry)
• Mangapps Railway Museum
• Market Drayton Railway Preservation Society
• Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland
• Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Suffolk
• Middleton Railway, Leeds, West Yorkshire
• Moseley Railway Trust
• Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow, Keighley
• National Railway Museum, York, North Yorkshire (free entry)
• National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire
• North Ings Farm Museum
• North Woolwich Old Station Museum
• Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
• Pendon Museum
• Rushden Station Railway Museum
• Rutland Railway Museum, Rutland
• Shillingstone Railway Project, Dorset
• Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust
• Southall Railway Centre
• Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth
• Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway
• Swanage Railway, Dorset
• Steam - Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
• Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields
• Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, Devon
• Tyseley Locomotive Works
• Walthamstow Pump House Museum
• Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Bridgwater

Scotland

• Museum of Scottish Railways
• Alford Valley Railway
• Faeming and Railway Visiting Centre
• Ferryhill Railway Heritage Centre
• Glasgow Museum of Transport
• Glenfinnan Station Museum
• Invergarry & Fort Augustus Railway Museum
• Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway
• Maud Railway Museum
• Scottish Industrial Railway Centre
• Friends of The Kyle Line

Wales

• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum – Gwynedd
• Conwy Valley Railway Museum, Betws-y-Coed
• Griffithstown Railway Museum (closed 2011)
• Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

Northern Ireland

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
• Whitehead Railway Museum

Isle of Man

• Jurby Transport Museum
• 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