Category: Museums

This is it. In the year of Railway 200, this is THE event that every train enthusiast has been eagerly awaiting. From 1st – 3rd August 2025, Alstom’s Litchurch Lane site throws open its doors for the weekend to welcome in the largest ever assembled gathering of locomotive and railway stock past, present and future. […]

In a rare entry for this blog, we’re turning away from trains and instead focusing on something that has a very slight link with the railways. Welcome to the ONLY hovercraft museum in the world! Located in Southsea in the South East, this is the worlds only (and by extension largest) assembled collection of Hovercraft […]

Welcome to 2025 and this years first trip. Today we’re over in West London at the London Transport Museum Depot. The Depot is a working collection store with over 500,000 objects in the collection from signalling equipment and signs to trams, trolley buses and locomotives as well as everything in-between. The Depot is separate to […]

At the very far end of Epping tube station car park, you will find the Epping Signalling Museum. Unless you were passing by on the tube train or had heard about them previously, it’s highly unlikely you would find them. The museum consists of their L11 locomotive, collection of underground artifacts and the main attraction, […]

Mangapps railway museum was actually brought to my attention by a friend who just so happened to be in the area for a holiday. Prior to this, I had never heard of this place before but boy was it worth a visit. This is a privately owned working railway and museum in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. […]

Rocks by Rail is a living museum in the East Midlands. It has the only comprehensive collection of locomotives and rolling stock related to standard gauge quarry railways in the UK. The site today sits on a reclaimed quarry and runs demonstrations of past quarrying practices and methods on certain days of the year. On […]

It’s a lovely summers day and I’ve brought myself down to Bristol Harbour. Bristol Harbour used to have a network of track that spanned for 5 miles which connected the docks to the GWR mainline at Bristol Temple Meads. The railway opened in 1872 and remained in operation until 1987, although sections of the network […]

It’s a rather wet day in the Midlands and I find myself at Crich Tramway Village; the home of the National Tramway Museum. In 1959, the site looked very different as it was a typical disused quarry with spoil heaps, derelict buildings and loads of scrap metal. Since then the site has been rejuvenated with […]

Given that the birthplace of the railways was in the North, it’s understandable why this is very much a train enthusiasts Mecca. The most significant museums of the railways are up there such as Head of Steam in Darlington, The National Railway Museum in York, and todays visit; Locomotion at Shildon. The museum today is […]

We’re back in the Midlands today and it’s a festival of steam at Statfold Country Park and the Statfold Barn Railway. There are three gauges of track here and yes, they are all running today. Not only this but the variety and number of trains running is insane! Check out the gallery below to get […]