List of railway museums in the United Kingdom

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

East of England

• Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk
• East Anglian Railway Museum
• Mangapps Railway Museum
• Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Suffolk

Greater London

• Kew Bridge Steam Museum
• London Transport Museum
• North Woolwich Old Station Museum (closed)
• Southall Railway Centre
• Walthamstow Pump House Museum

Midlands

• Barrow Hill Roundhouse
• Bishop's Castle Railway Museum
• Cambrian Heritage Railways, Oswestry, Shropshire
• Chasewater Railway Museum, Staffordshire
• Great Central Railway (Nottingham)
• Heritage Shunters Trust
• Kidderminster Railway Museum
• Market Drayton Railway Preservation Society
• Moseley Railway Trust
• National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire
• North Ings Farm Museum
• Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
• Rushden Station Railway Museum
• Rutland Railway Museum, Rutland
• Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth
• Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway
• Tyseley Locomotive Works

North East England

• Beamish museum
• Darlington Railway Centre and Museum (Recently renamed: Head of Steam)
• Hopetown Carriage Works
• Locomotion Museum, Shildon, (free entry)
• Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland

• Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields

North West England

• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Astley, Greater Manchester
• Crewe Heritage Centre, Crewe

South East England

• Amberley Working Museum, Arundel, West Sussex
• Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Buckinghamshire
• Colonel Stephens Railways Museum, Tenterden
• Didcot Railway Centre
• Hollycombe Steam Collection
• Pendon Museum

South West England

• Bere Ferrers railway station
• Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Devon
• Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum
• Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire
• Devon Railway Centre, Devon
• Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
• Shillingstone Railway Project, Dorset
• Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust
• Swanage Railway, Dorset
• Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, Devon
• Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Bridgwater

Yorkshire

• Bahamas Locomotive Society
• Doncaster Railway Works, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
• Middleton Railway, Leeds, West Yorkshire
• Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow, Keighley
• National Railway Museum, York, (free entry)

Scotland

• Museum of Scottish Railways
• Riverside Museum
• Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life

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