NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of British railway museums

This list is intended as a list of museums in Britain. For heritage railways see List of British heritage and private railways. Other links at foot of page. A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... List of British heritage and private railways This list is intended as a list of railways (railroads) in Britain. ...

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The Great Hall at the NRM with LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York forms part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry. ... York is a city in Northern England, built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... Amberley Working Museum is a museum in Amberley, Arundel, West Sussex, England. ... Arundel is a town in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. ... West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ... The Astley Green Colliery Museum is a museum in Lancashire, United Kingdom. ... Lancashire (archaically, the County of Lancaster) is a county palatine of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... The Barrow Hill Engine Shed is a former Midland Railway roundhouse in Derbyshire. ... Replica Steam Elephant locomotive, Pockerley Waggonway Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open-air museum located in the town of Stanley in County Durham, England. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... The Birmingham Railway Museum Trust operates two subsidiaries: Tyseley Locomotive Works and Vintage Trains. ... For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Quainton railway station at Quainton in Buckinghamshire, England was the northern terminus of the Wotton (later Brill) Tramway. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in south central England. ... Coventry Railway Centre is located south of the city, near the airport. ... The Devon Railway Centre is located at Bickleigh in Devon, on a station site on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Plymouth to Tavistock . ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... General view, including engine sheds, of part of the site on a cold January day The Didcot Railway Centre, located in the Oxfordshire town of Didcot, is a comprehensive exhibition of Great Western Railway rolling stock. ... The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, situated on the Great Eastern Railway line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. ... Hollycombe steam fair holds Edwardian rides originating from the 1870s. ... Londons Transport Museum, formerly known as the London Transport Museum, is a museum which seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ... Artists Impression The Locomotion Museum is part of the National Museum of Science and History (NMSI). ... Location within the British Isles. ... County Durham is a county in north-east England. ... The Mangapps Railway Museum (previously Mangapps Farm Railway Museum) is a heritage railway located near Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. ... This is about the city of Sunderland in England. ... The Midland Railway, Butterley is a complex of railway museum exhibits in Derbyshire, within the Midland Railway Centre. ... The Moseley Railway Trust has its base in south Manchester. ... Keighley (pronounced Keith-ley) is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, north of Bradford, on the meeting point of the River Aire and the River Worth. ... The Great Hall at the NRM with LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York forms part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry. ... York is a city in Northern England, built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... North Yorkshire is a county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ... Categories: United Kingdom-related stubs | Museum stubs | Derbyshire | Museums in the UK | Transport museums ... Crich is a village in Derbyshire. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of Englands most attractive hill and mountain scenery. ... North Woolwich Old Station Museum is a small railway museum in East London. ... The Northamptonshire Ironstone Trust operates a 2. ... The Rutland Railway Museum occupies an area of nearly 7 acres (28,000 m²) on part of the former Midland Railway mineral branch line in Rutland. ... This article is about the county in England. ... The Stephenson Railway Museum [SRM] was opened in 1986 to house the railway collections of Tyne & Wear Museums. ... North Shields is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne, in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in North East England. ... The Pump House Museum is a museum in Walthamstow. ...

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The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is situated in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. ... Gwynedd is an administrative county in Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. ...

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