List entries by category - Rail
Amberley Working Museum www.amberleymuseum.co.uk
Amberley BN18 9LT England
Amberley Working Museum is an open-air museum dedicated to the industrial heritage of south-east England. Exhibits range from transport-based collections, such as the Southdown bus collection & the village garage, to industry-based collections such as the Print Workshop & Wheelwrights'.
Last updated: 2007-10-25
Astley Green Colliery Museum www.agcm.org.uk
Astley Green M29 7JB England
Astley Green Colliery Museum is situated next to the Bridgewater Canal and is Lancashire's only remaining colliery. The museum includes the largest collection of colliery locomotives in the United Kingdom, the largest steam winding engine ever used in the Lancashire Coalfield plus the headgear and capstan engine.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Berney Arms www.berneyarms.co.uk
Berney Arms, Great Yarmouth NR30 1SB England
Berney Arms is one of the remotest stations in England and has a very infrequent service. It is surrounded by the Norfolk Broads and has a windmill and a pub a pleasant walk away next to the river.
Last updated: 2008-05-17
Black Country Living Museum www.bclm.co.uk
Dudley DY1 4SQ England
An urban heritage park to which buildings from throughout the Black Country have been relocated. The site includes trams, trolleybuses, coal mine, blacksmith's and canal plus a traditional pub and fish & chip shop.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Bluebell Railway www.bluebell-railway.co.uk
Sheffield Park TN22 3QL England
The UK's first preserved standard gauge passenger railway, re-opening part of the Lewes to East Grinstead line of the old London Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1960. Since then it has developed into one of the largest tourist attractions in Sussex, yet it still remains true to its objectives of the preservation for posterity of a country branch line, its steam locomotives, coaches and goods stock, signalling systems, stations and operating practices.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Brussels Tram Museum www.trammuseumbrussels.be/...
Brussels Belgium
Avenue de Tervuren 364 B 1150 Brussels (WOLUWE-SAINT-PIERRE)
Last updated: 2009-07-19
Churnet Valley Railway www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk
Cheddleton England
The Churnet Valley Railway runs through the scenic Churnet Valley alongside the Caldon Canal.
Last updated: 2009-05-22
Crich Tramway Village www.tramway.co.uk
Crich, near Matlock DE4 5DP England
Period village that is also home to the National Tramway Museum
Last updated: 2007-10-07
Dartmoor Railway www.dartmoor-railway.co.uk/...
Okehampton EX20 1EJ England
The Dartmoor Railway in Devon was part of the Southern Railway main line from London Waterloo to Plymouth and North Cornwall. It is 15.5 mile long and runs across the northern edge of Dartmoor between Meldon Quarry in the West and Coleford Junction near Yeoford, in the East. It is unusual in that freight and certain National Rail services also run to Meldon Quarry and its main station at Okehampton.
Last updated: 2009-10-11
East Anglia Transport Museum www.eatm.org.uk
Carlton Colville NR33 8BL England
View and ride on all three principal forms of public transport from the earlier part of the 20th century trams, trolleybuses and railway.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
East Lancashire Railway www.east-lancs-rly.co.uk
Bury England
Steam Railway
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Historic Dockyard Chatham www.chdt.org.uk
Chatham ME4 4TZ England
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is a maritime heritage site that covers over 400 years of Britain's maritime history and provides the world's most complete dockyard of the age of sail.
Last updated: 2007-10-09
Hythe Pier Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Hythe near Southampton England
Narrow guage pier railway, originally from a WW1 mustard gas factory
Last updated: 2007-10-14
IBSE (Interest Group for the Study of Tram and Railway Routes) www.ibse.de/...
Germany
A German group with an interest in the German railway and tram network. Their web site is also available in English.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Isle of Man Steam Railway www.iomguide.com/...
Isle of Man
Last updated: 2007-10-05
London Transport Museum www.ltmuseum.co.uk
Covent Garden, London WC2E 7BB England
Including displays of buses, trains and trams
Last updated: 2007-10-21
Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk
Lynton/Lynmouth EX35 6EQ England
Victorian water powered funicular railway established in 1888.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Manx Electric Railway www.iomguide.com/...
Isle of Man
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Museum of Science and Industry www.msim.org.uk
Manchester M3 4FP England
Includes an interesting collection of railway locomotives and live industrial steam engines.
Last updated: 2007-10-07
National Brewery Centre www.nationalbrewerycentre.co.uk
Burton-on-Trent DE14 1NG England
Formerly the Bass Museum. Includes an explanation and artifacts of brewing using the unique Burton Union System, steam engines, vans and buses. The museum has a model of Burton-on-Trent in 1921 and includes a model railway. Worthington White Shield is brewed on site and can be sampled draught in the Brewery Tap.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Railway Vehicle Preservations Ltd www.geocities.com/...
Rothley LE7 7LD England
Railway Vehicle Preservations Ltd started life in 1968 and is now a registered charity. It exists to preserve historic items of railway rolling stock and is currently based on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. The group have assembled a collection of railway vehicles from the London and North Eastern Railway and have a special interest in items relating to Travelling Post Office (TPO) trains.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Romney Hythe and Dymchuch Railway www.rhdr.org.uk
TN28 8PL England
'The worlds smallest public railway' was opened in 1927 and operates on 15 inch guage tracks over a distance of 13.5 miles. The fleet of one-third full size steam and diesel locomotives were built between 1925 and 1937 and run at speeds up to 25mph.
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Rushden Historical Transport Society www.rhts.co.uk/...
Rushden NN10 OAW England
Rushden Transport Museum is situated at the old Midland Railway Station which once formed part of the Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers branch line. It is now home to the Rushden Historical Transport Society and includes a variety of railway rolling stock and road transport vehicles. The station also houses the CAMRA award winning club with a choice of real ales.
Last updated: 2010-05-22
Saltburn Inclined Tramway www.saltburnclifflift.co.uk/...
Saltburn TS12 1HQ England
Opened on 28 June 1884 to transport people over the 120 feet drop from the town to the beach. The track is 207 feet long with a guage of 4' 2.5". The carriages carry 10 people and are powered by water balance. It is the oldest surviving water balanced cliff lift in the country and the second oldest surviving in the world.
Last updated: 2010-03-13
Sauschwaenzlebahn www.sauschwaenzlebahn.de
78176 Blumberg Germany
Steam railway with impressive viaducts and tunnels.
Last updated: 2008-04-05
Scarborough Central Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Scarborough YO11 2ER England
The Scarborough Central Tramway is a standard guage funicular railway and was opened in 1881.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Scarborough South Cliff Tramway en.wikipedia.org/...
Scarborough YO11 2HD England
The Scarborough Central Tramway is a standard guage funicular railway and was opened in 1875.
Last updated: 2010-03-20
Schynige Platte Bahn www.funet.fi/...
Wilderwill, near Interlaken Switzerland
Rack railway built in 1893 with much original equipment. Identical technology to the much more famous Wengen Alp Bahn further up the valley, but the SPB still uses original electric locos.
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Spa Valley Railway www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk
Tunbridge Wells TN2 5QY England
The Spa Valley Railway runs for 3½ miles through the picturesque Kentish Weald countryside between the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the village of Groombridge, stopping off in between at High Rocks.
Last updated: 2007-10-05
Trieste - Villa Opicina tram line www.tramdeopcina.it/...
Trieste Italy
The tramway runs up from Piazza Oberdan in Trieste city centre along Scorcola hill to the town of Opicina on the plateau. It is an electric line with an unusual cable section with 'bankers' to help the trams up the steep hill.
Last updated: 2007-11-07
Trieste Campo Marzio Railway Museum www.ts.camcom.it/...
Trieste Italy
The Railway Museum of Trieste Campo Marzio is situated in the former passenger terminal of the Trieste Campo Marzio station and includes a museum and collection of steam, diesel and electric locos plus trams.
Last updated: 2007-11-07
Volk's Electric Railway www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk
Brighton England
The Volk's Electric Railway runs along the beach at Brighton. Opened in 1883 it is now the oldest remaining operating electric railway in the world.
Last updated: 2007-11-10