Having previously lived near Kempton for over 20 years of my life, it’s crazy I didn’t think to visit this place sooner. The museum preserves the historic steam water pumping engines which was a key piece of infrastructure to provide clean water to large parts of London for over 100 years. The museum is home […]
Category: Museums
Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
While in the region of the Northampton and Lamport railway, just a stones throw away from it is the Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust. This place it tiny, with a small museum, loco shed and small demonstration line. It does however have the odd few gems at the time of my visit. For example, this place […]
Yeovil Railway Centre
This is probably the smallest railway centre I’ve been to however with engineering sheds, model railways, signalling demonstrations and one of the countries few remaining operational vaccum operated turntables, there is still plenty to appreciate in this small corner of Somerset. Speaking with volunteers there, the centre have plans to increase the length of the […]