This is a list of heritage, private and preserved railways throughout the

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, the Crown dependencies, and British Overseas Territories whether operational or closed, that are operated for charitable purposes or shareholder profit. Some also provide economic local transport. For rail museums, see ''

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''. Many of the

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listed, including former branch lines and ex-mainline routes, were closed by British Railways under the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. Most have been restored and operate as heritage lines. A smaller number of lines were formerly

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or colliery railways. Many of these preserved railways are mentioned in national and international tour guides, and visits may form part of a

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or feature in other studies, including civil engineering, mechanics, social, economic and political history, visual arts and drama. This list also includes tramways. Nearly all

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services in Britain ended in the 1950s and early 1960s, leaving just Blackpool Corporation Tramways, although some big cities have since revived them in the late 20th century onwards.

England

East of England

Restored double track over Danemoor bank

Standard gauge

Colne Valley Railway The Colne Valley Railway is a heritage railway based at Castle Hedingham Station, near Halstead in Essex, England. The railway consists of a long running line, with a fully reconstructed station, signal box and railway yard. History The ra ...

, Castle Hedingham, Essex *

Epping Ongar Railway The Epping Ongar Railway is a heritage railway in south-west Essex, England, run by a small number of paid staff and a team of volunteers. It was the final section of the Great Eastern Railway branch line, later the London Underground's Centr ...

, Ongar, Essex *

Mid-Norfolk Railway The Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain. Preservation efforts began in 1974, but the line re-opened to passengers only in the mid-1990s as part of the "new generation" ...

, Dereham, Norfolk * Mid Suffolk Light Railway, Brockford, Suffolk *

Nene Valley Railway The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) is a preserved railway in Cambridgeshire, England, running between Peterborough Nene Valley and Yarwell Junction. The line is in length. There are stations at each terminus, and three stops en route: Orton Mere, ...

, Wansford, Cambridgeshire *

North Norfolk Railway The North Norfolk Railway (NNR) – also known as the "Poppy Line" – is a heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the towns of Sheringham and Holt. The North Norfolk Railway is owned and operated as a public limite ...

, Sheringham, Norfolk

Railway centres and museums

Bressingham Steam and Gardens Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or sci ...

, Diss, Norfolk *

East Anglian Railway Museum The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are ...

, Chappel & Wakes Colne Station, Essex *

Mangapps Railway Museum The Mangapps Railway Museum (previously Mangapps Farm Railway Museum) is a heritage railway centre located near Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cam ...

, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex *

Railworld Wildlife Haven Railworld Wildlife Haven is a charity in Peterborough which has a nature haven, a model railway and other exhibits. It is located on a landscaped former coal storage yard which once served Peterborough Power Station. It was founded by Rev. R ...

, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire *

Whitwell & Reepham Railway Whitwell and Reepham railway station, also known as Whitwell station, is a former station situated in Norfolk, England. The station closed in 1959 and is a notable stop on the Marriott's Way long-distance footpath. It is being restored as a ra ...

, Reepham, Norfolk

Narrow gauge

, Diss, Norfolk *

Great Whipsnade Railway The Great Whipsnade Railway, also known as The Jumbo Express, is an English, narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England. Overview Construction of the railway started in 1970 and the initia ...

ZSL Whipsnade Zoo ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, formerly known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, is a zoo and safari park located at Whipsnade, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. It is one of two zoos (the other being ZSL London Zoo in Regent's Park, London) that are ...

, Bedfordshire *

Leighton Buzzard Light Railway The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway (LBLR) is a light railway in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, England. It operates on narrow-gauge track and is just under long. The line was built after the First World War to serve sand quarries north o ...

, Bedfordshire *

Southend Pier Railway The Southend Pier Railway is a narrow gauge railway in the English city of Southend-on-Sea, Essex. It runs for along the length of Southend Pier, providing public passenger transport from the shore to the pier head. History 19th century T ...

, Southend-on-Sea, Essex *

Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills The Royal Gunpowder Mills are a former industrial site in Waltham Abbey, England. It was one of three Royal Gunpowder Mills in the United Kingdom (the others being at Ballincollig and Faversham). Waltham Abbey is the only site to have survive ...

, Essex *

Yaxham Light Railway Yaxham Light Railway is a narrow gauge light railway ( heritage railway) situated adjacent to Yaxham railway station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. It is located in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk. The railway is listed a ...

, Norfolk – ''private site''

Miniature gauge

* Audley End Railway, Essex *

Bure Valley Railway The Bure Valley Railway is a minimum gauge visitors' attraction in Norfolk, England. It was created on the original disused full-gauge bed of a defunct passenger service to incorporate a new, adjacent pedestrian footpath. The railway runs from ...

, Aylsham, Norfolk
Bushey Miniature Railway
Bushey, Hertfordshire * East Herts Miniature Railway, Ware, Hertfordshire * Eaton Park Miniature Railway, Norwich, Norfolk *

Fancott Miniature Railway The Fancott Miniature Railway (FMR) is a gauge railway located in the gardens of the Fancott public house in Fancott (near Toddington), Bedfordshire Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The co ...

, Bedfordshire * Rex Express, Paradise Wildlife Park, Hertfordshire * Great Woburn Railway, Woburn, Bedfordshire *

Museum of Power The Museum of Power is located in the former Southend Waterworks (now Essex and Suffolk Water) Langford Pumping Station in Langford, Essex, England. It is on the B1019, on the main road from Maldon, Essex, Maldon to Hatfield Peverel. The museum ...

, Langford, Essex * Wells & Walsingham Light Railway, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk *

Wells Harbour Railway The Wells Harbour Railway was a gauge railway that ran at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England. It was long, running between Wells Harbour and Pinewoods. The line operated for 45 years, from 1976 to 2021, when it was closed and replaced with ...

, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

Tramways

East Anglia Transport Museum The East Anglia Transport Museum is an open-air transport museum, with numerous historic public transport vehicles (including many in full working order). It is located in Carlton Colville a suburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is the only museu ...

, Lowestoft, Suffolk

East Midlands

Standard gauge

Battlefield Line The Battlefield Line Railway is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England.OS Explorer Map 232 : Nuneaton & Tamworth: (1:25 000) : It runs from Shackerstone (Grid ref ) to Shenton (), via Market Bosworth, a total of . Shenton is near Bosw ...

, Shackerstone, Leicestershire * Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, Wirksworth, Derbyshire *

Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the ...

, Loughborough, Leicestershire *

Lincolnshire Wolds Railway The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (LWR) is a heritage railway based at Ludborough station, near Louth, Lincolnshire, England and the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire open to the public. The line is part of the original Great Nor ...

, Ludborough, Lincolnshire *

Midland Railway – Butterley The Midland Railway – Butterley is a heritage railway at Butterley, near Ripley in Derbyshire. History Overview The ''Midland Railway – Butterley'' lies on the Ambergate to Pye Bridge line of the old Midland Railway, a line once con ...

, Derbyshire *

Northampton & Lamport Railway The Northampton and Lamport Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in Northamptonshire, England. It is based at Pitsford and Brampton station, near the villages of Pitsford and Chapel Brampton, roughly north of Northampton. Overview ...

, Pitsford and Brampton, Northamptonshire * Northants Ironstone Railway, Hunsbury Hill, Northamptonshire *

Nottingham Heritage Railway The Nottingham Heritage Railway (formerly known as Great Central Railway (Nottingham) and Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre) is a heritage railway and transport museum on the south side of the village of Ruddington in Nottinghamshire. Th ...

, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire *

Peak Rail Peak Rail is a preserved railway in Derbyshire, England, which operates a steam and heritage diesel service for tourists and visitors to both the Peak District and the Derbyshire Dales. The preserved railway line is over 3½ miles (5.6 km) ...

, Matlock, Derbyshire *

Rushden, Higham & Wellingborough Railway The Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway is a heritage railway operated by the Rushden Historical Transport Society in the town of Rushden in the county of Northamptonshire, England. The aim of the society was to reopen most of the for ...

, Rushden, Northamptonshire

Railway centres and museums

Appleby Frodingham Railway The Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society is based at Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. The society owns locomotives and rolling stock but not the railway it runs on. The name comes from the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company, now know ...

, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire * Barrow Hill Railway Centre, Barrow Hill nr Chesterfield, Derbyshire *

, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire *

Rushden Transport Museum The Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway is a heritage railway operated by the Rushden Historical Transport Society in the town of Rushden in the county of Northamptonshire, England. The aim of the society was to reopen most of the for ...

, Northamptonshire * Rutland Railway Museum, Cottesmore, Rutland

Narrow gauge

* Billing Aquadrome Miniature Railway, Great Billing, Northamptonshire * Crowle Peatland Railway, Crowle, North Lincolnshire *

Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway The Derbyshire Dales Narrow Gauge Railway () was a short, narrow-gauge railway located at Rowsley South at Peak Rail. It operated ex-industrial diesel locomotives and carriages. History The DDNGR was established by Henry and Mary Frampton-Jone ...

, Rowsley, Derbyshire * Golden Valley Light Railway, Butterley, Derbyshire * Greenlea Light Railway, Burbage, Leicestershire - private site *

Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum The Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is a small railway museum and metre gauge railway near Irchester, near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, England. History The area around Wellingborough was rich in iron ore. A quarry opened in ...

, Irchester, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire * Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, Skegness, Lincolnshire * North Ings Farm Railway, Lincolnshire *

Steeple Grange Light Railway The Steeple Grange Light Railway is a narrow-gauge, heritage railway visitor attraction near Wirksworth in Derbyshire, UK. It uses industrial locomotives and rolling stock from disused mines, quarries, and steelworks around the country. The l ...

, Wirksworth, Derbyshire * Wicksteed Park Railway, Kettering, Northamptonshire

Miniature gauge

Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway The Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway is a minimum-gauge railway that primarily serves holidaymakers in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. It operates from near the Cleethorpes Leisure Centre, running to the mouth of the Buck Beck. ...

, Lincolnshire * Mablethorpe Miniature Railway, Queens Park, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire *

Stapleford Miniature Railway Stapleford Miniature Railway is an historic steam locomotive-hauled gauge railway at Stapleford Park, Stapleford near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. Considered one of the finest examples of its type, the railway is now private but ...

, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

Tramways

National Tramway Museum The National Tramway Museum (trading as Crich Tramway Village) is a tram museum located at Crich (), Derbyshire, England. The museum contains over 60 (mainly British) trams built between 1873 and 1982 and is set within a recreated period vil ...

, Crich, Derbyshire

North England

Standard gauge

Aln Valley Railway The Alnwick branch line is a partly closed railway line in Northumberland, northern England. A heritage railway currently operates a mile of the line, which originally ran from Alnmouth railway station, on the East Coast Main Line, to the town o ...

, Alnwick, Northumberland * Bowes Railway, Tyne and Wear *

Derwent Valley Light Railway The Derwent Valley Light Railway (DVLR) (also known as The Blackberry Line) was a privately owned standard-gauge railway in North Yorkshire, England, and was unusual in that it was never nationalised, remaining as a private operation all its ...

, Murton, North Yorkshire *

East Lancashire Railway East Lancashire Railway is a heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester and Rawtenstall in Lancashire. There are intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street, , Summerseat and Ramsbottom, with ...

, Bury, Greater Manchester * Eden Valley Railway, Warcop, Cumbria *

Elsecar Heritage Railway The Elsecar Heritage Railway (EHR) is located on the southern part of the former South Yorkshire Railway freight-only branch which ran from Elsecar Junction on its Mexborough to Barnsley Line. The Elsecar Heritage Railway operated an out and b ...

, South Yorkshire *

Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway The Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway (E&BASR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, formed in 1979 and opened in 1981. The preserved railway was part of the former Midland Railway route from Skipton to Ilkley which was clo ...

, Embsay, North Yorkshire * Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Haworth, West Yorkshire *

Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway (L&HR) is a heritage railway in Cumbria, England. Location The L&HR runs from Haverthwaite at the southern end of the line via Newby Bridge to Lakeside at the southern end of Windermere. Some services a ...

, Haverthwaite, nr Staveley, Cumbria *

Middleton Railway The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway, situated in the English city of Leeds. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway, run by volunteers from The Middleton Railway Trust Ltd. since 1960. The rail ...

, Hunslet, West Yorkshire *

North Tyneside Steam Railway The North Tyneside Steam Railway and Stephenson Steam Railway are visitor attractions in North Tyneside, North East England. The museum and railway workshops share a building on Middle Engine Lane adjacent to the Silverlink Retail Park. The r ...

North Shields North Shields () is a town in the Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne and borders nearby Wallsend and Tynemouth. Since 1974, it has been in the North Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wea ...

, Tyne and Wear *

North Yorkshire Moors Railway The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, that runs through the North York Moors National Park. First opened in 1836 as the Whitby and Pickering Railway, the railway was planned in 1831 by Geor ...

, Pickering, North Yorkshire *

Ribble Steam Railway The Ribble Steam Railway is a standard gauge preserved railway in Lancashire, in the United Kingdom. It was opened to the public on 17 September 2005, running along Preston Docks. The railway began by housing much of the collection from the ...

, Preston, Lancashire * Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria *

Tanfield Railway The Tanfield Railway is a heritage railway in Gateshead and County Durham, England. Running on part of a former horse-drawn colliery wooden waggonway, later rope & horse, lastly rope & loco railway. It operates preserved industrial stea ...

, Marley Hill, County Durham *

Weardale Railway The Weardale Railway is an independently-owned British single-track branch line heritage railway between , Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham, Frosterley and Stanhope. Weardale Railway began services on 23 May 2010, but decided to run special trains r ...

, Stanhope, County Durham *

Wensleydale Railway The Wensleydale Railway is a heritage railway in Wensleydale and Lower Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England. It was built in stages by different railway companies and originally extended to railway station on the Settle-Carlisle line. Since ...

, Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire *

Yorkshire Wolds Railway The Yorkshire Wolds Railway is a preserved railway in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located on a section of the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway near the village of Fimber. The railway has a short demonstration line and an op ...

, Sledmere–Fimber, East Yorkshire

Railway centres and museums

* Beamish Museum & Railway Centre, County Durham * Carnforth Railway Centre, Carnforth, Lancashire *

Crewe Heritage Centre Crewe Heritage Centre is a railway museum located in Crewe, England. Managed by the Crewe Heritage Trust, the museum is located between the railway station and the town centre; the site was the location of the 'Old Works' which was demolished i ...

, Crewe, Cheshire *

Head of Steam Head of Steam, formerly known as the Darlington Railway Centre and Museum, is a railway museum located on the 1825 route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was the world's first steam-powered passenger railway. It is based inside the ...

, Darlington, County Durham * Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria * Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley, West Yorkshire *

Locomotion Locomotion means the act or ability of something to transport or move itself from place to place. Locomotion may refer to: Motion * Motion (physics) * Robot locomotion, of man-made devices By environment * Aquatic locomotion * Flight * Locomo ...

, Shildon, County Durham * Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland (closed 2016) *

National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum is a museum in York forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant ...

, York, North Yorkshire *

South Yorkshire Transport Museum The South Yorkshire Transport Museum (SYTM) is a transport museum of South Yorkshire and surrounding areas in the United Kingdom. It was formerly known as the Sheffield Bus Museum Founded in the 1960, STYM is located in Aldwarke in Rotherham. ...

, Aldwarke, Rotherham, South Yorkshire * Stephenson Railway Museum, West Chirton, Tyne and Wear

Narrow gauge

Eaton Hall Railway The Eaton Hall Railway was an early gauge minimum gauge estate railway built in 1896 at Eaton Hall in Cheshire. The line, which connected the Grosvenor estate with sidings at on the GWR Shrewsbury to Chester Line about away, opened in ...

, Cheshire – ''private site'' * Heatherslaw Light Railway, Northumberland *

South Tynedale Railway The South Tynedale Railway is a preserved, narrow gauge heritage railway in Northern England and at 875ft is England's second highest narrow gauge railway after the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway in north Devon. The South Tynedale line runs fro ...

between Alston, Cumbria and Slaggyford, Northumberland * Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Railway, Cumbria *

West Lancashire Light Railway The West Lancashire Light Railway (WLLR) is a narrow gauge railway that operates at Hesketh Bank, situated between Preston and Southport in North West England. The distance between the stations on the railway is , though track extends eastward ...

, Hesketh Bank, Lancashire *

Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway Woodhorn Railway is a long railway on narrow-gauge track. The line runs from Woodhorn, Northumberland, England, to a restaurant in the car park of the QE2 lake. History of the railway In 1991, the Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archi ...

, Ashington, Northumberland

Miniature gauge

Scarborough North Bay Railway - 2006-08-03

Miniature Railway in Royden Park - geograph

* All in one Miniature Railway, Knutsford nr Allostock, Cheshire * Blackpool Zoo Railway, Blackpool, Lancashire * Brookside Miniature Railway, Poynton, Cheshire *

Dragon Miniature Railway A dragon is a reptile, reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages hav ...

, Marple, nr Stockport, Greater Manchester * High Legh Miniature Railway, High Legh, Cheshire * Kirklees Light Railway, Clayton West, West Yorkshire * Knowsley Safari Park Railway, Knowsley, Merseyside * Halton Miniature Railway,

Runcorn Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton in Cheshire, England. Its population in 2011 was 61,789. The town is in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region, with Liverpool to the northwest across the River Mersey. ...

, Cheshire *

Lakeside Miniature Railway The gauge, single track Lakeside Miniature Railway runs along the seaward side of the Marine Lake in Southport, England. Route The railway originally consisted of a straight running line on the seaward shore of the Southport Marine Lake ...

Pleasureland Southport Southport Pleasureland is an amusement park located in Southport, Merseyside, England. The park originally operated from 1913 to 2006 as Pleasureland Theme Park under the ownership of the Blackpool Pleasure Beach company. In 2007, the park re-o ...

, Merseyside *

North Bay Railway Scarborough North Bay Railway (SNBR) is a ridable miniature railway (also known as a minimum-gauge railway) in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1931, to the gauge of , and runs for approximately between Peasholm Park ...

, Scarborough, North Yorkshire *

Pleasure Beach Express Blackpool Pleasure Beach Express is a narrow gauge railway, built in 1933 as a tourist attraction at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire. History The main station was built in 1933, but was destroyed by fire in 1934. Redesigned by architect J ...

, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire * Pugneys Light Railway, Wakefield, West Yorkshire *

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Raven ...

, Cumbria * Wirral Model Engineering Society, Royden Park, Wirral, Merseyside *

Saltburn Miniature Railway The Saltburn Miniature Railway is a Track gauge, gauge railway at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Saltburn, in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. History The railway opened in 1947 as a tourist attraction. It was originally a simple out-and- ...

, Saltburn, North Yorkshire * South Park Miniature Railway, Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester * Teesside Small Gauge Railway, Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees *

Walton Park Miniature Railway Walton may refer to: People * Walton (given name) * Walton (surname) * Susana, Lady Walton (1926–2010), Argentine writer Places Canada * Walton, Nova Scotia, a community ** Walton River (Nova Scotia) *Walton, Ontario, a hamlet United Kingdo ...

, Sale, Greater Manchester * Windmill Farm Railway, Bursough, Lancashire

Tramways

* Beamish Museum, County Durham * Bradford Industrial Museum, Eccleshill, (nr Bradford), West Yorkshire *

Heaton Park Tramway The Heaton Park Tramway is a heritage tramway that operates within Heaton Park, a large municipal park in the English city of Manchester. It is operated by the Manchester Transport Museum Society, a registered charity. In normal times, the tram ...

, Manchester, Greater Manchester *

Shipley Glen Tramway The Shipley Glen Tramway is a historic funicular tramway located in the wooded Shipley Glen near the village of Saltaire in the English county of West Yorkshire. The lower station of the funicular is some by foot from Saltaire railway stat ...

, Shipley, West Yorkshire *

Wirral Transport Museum Wirral Transport Museum is a museum situated approximately from the Mersey Ferry service at Woodside, Birkenhead, England. A vintage tram service links the museum and the ferry at certain times. Admission into the museum is free with a broad ...

and Heritage Tramway, Birkenhead, Merseyside

South East

Standard gauge

Bluebell Railway The Bluebell Railway is an heritage line almost entirely in West Sussex in England, except for Sheffield Park which is in East Sussex. It is managed by the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society. It uses steam trains which operate between an ...

, Sheffield Park, Sussex *

Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and main station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England. It runs along the foot of the Chilterns escarpment. Although a few ...

, Chinnor, Oxfordshire *

Cholsey & Wallingford Railway The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire. It operates along most of the length of the former Wallingford branch of the Great Western Railway (GWR), from Cholsey station ...

, Wallingford, Oxfordshire *

East Kent Railway The East Kent Railway (EKR) was an early railway operating between Strood and Faversham in Kent, England, during 1858 and 1859. In the latter year it changed its name to the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to reflect its ambitions to build a ...

, Shepherdswell, Kent *

Isle of Wight Steam Railway The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a heritage railway on the Isle of Wight. The railway passes through of countryside from to station, passing through the small village of Havenstreet, where the line has a station, headquarters and a depo ...

, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight * Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway, Tenterden, Kent *

Lavender Line The Lavender Line is a heritage railway based at Isfield Station, near Uckfield in East Sussex, England. History The Lavender Line was originally part of the Lewes to Uckfield Railway opened to the public on 18 October 1858. This indepen ...

, Isfield, East Sussex * Mid-Hants Railway, New Alresford, Hampshire * Rother Valley Railway, Robertsbridge, East Sussex (land purchases in progress) *

Spa Valley Railway The Spa Valley Railway (SVR) is a standard gauge heritage railway that runs from Tunbridge Wells West railway station in Tunbridge Wells to High Rocks, Groombridge, and Eridge, where it links with the Oxted Line. It crosses Kent and Ea ...

, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Railway centres and museums

* Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire *

Chatham Historic Dockyard The Historic Dockyard Chatham is a maritime museum on part of the site of the former royal/naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, South East England. Chatham Dockyard covered 400 acres (1.6 km²) and was one of the Royal Navy's main facilit ...

Railway, Kent *

Didcot Railway Centre Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point. Background The founders and commercial backers ...

, Didcot, Oxfordshire * Finmere railway station, Buckinghamshire (private site) * London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, Central London *

Southall Railway Centre Southall Railway Centre is a non-publicised railway heritage centre at Southall in west London, near to Southall railway station and the Grand Union Canal. Formerly of the Great Western Railway the site is now run partly by Locomotive Service ...

, Southall, West London

Narrow gauge

Romney Hythe and Dmychurch trains at Dymchurch

* Amberley Museum Railway, Amberley, West Sussex * Great Bush Railway, Tinkers Park, Hadlow Down, East Sussex * Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, near Sittingbourne, Kent * Exbury Gardens Railway, Beaulieu, Hampshire * Hayling Seaside Railway, Hayling Island, Hampshire *

Hollycombe Steam Collection The Hollycombe Steam Collection is a collection of steam-powered vehicles, amusement rides, and attractions in South East England. It is based in West Sussex, but the closest town is Liphook in Hampshire. The collection includes fairground rid ...

, near Liphook, Hampshire * Hythe Pier Ferry Railway, Hampshire *

Old Kiln Light Railway The Old Kiln Light Railway is a narrow gauge railway at the Rural Life Living Museum in Tilford, near Farnham, Surrey. It has a collection of historic locomotives and rolling stock including two steam locomotives. It operates on most weeken ...

, Rural Life Centre, Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey * Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway, Hanworth/Hampton, London. *

London Museum of Water & Steam London Museum of Water & Steam is an independent museum founded in 1975 as the Kew Bridge Steam Museum. It was rebranded in early 2014 following a major investment project. Situated on the site of the old Kew Bridge Pumping Station in Brentfo ...

, Kew Bridge, Brentford, London * Mail Rail, short section of the former London Post Office Railway opened to public since 2017 *

Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives. The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romne ...

, Kent * Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, Kent *

Volk's Electric Railway Volk's Electric Railway (VER) is a narrow gauge heritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of the English seaside resort of Brighton. It was built by Magnus Volk, the first section being completed in August 1883, and is the old ...

, Brighton, East Sussex

Miniature gauge

* Bekonscot Light Railway, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire *

Blenheim Park Railway Blenheim Park Railway is a gauge miniature railway operating in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. History A portable track for a very small gauge railway was run from 1955, but in 1960 a permanent oval track was built to t ...

, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire *

Beech Hurst Park Miniature Railway Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...

, Haywards Heath, West Sussex *

Crowborough Miniature Railway Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (5 ...

, Crowborough, East Sussex *

Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway Lakeside Country Park is a country park just south of the town of Eastleigh in Hampshire. The park covers 60 acresFrimley Lodge Park Railway The Frimley Lodge Miniature Railway is operated by the Frimley and Ascot Locomotive Club and is located within Frimley Lodge Park, Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties o ...

, Surrey * Great Cockcrow Railway, Chertsey, Surrey *

Harlington Locomotive Society The Harlington Locomotive Society, also informally known as the Harlington Miniature Railway, is a trestle railway about half a mile in length through an old orchard in the village of Harlington, London, Harlington, London Borough of Hillingdon ...

, Hayes, Middlesex * Hastings Miniature Railway, Hastings Seafront, East Sussex * Ickenham Miniature Railway, Ickenham, London *

Malden District Society of Model Engineers Malden may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Old Malden, historically known as Malden, Kingston upon Thames, England *Malden Rushett, Kingston upon Thames, England *New Malden, Kingston upon Thames, England United States *Malden, Illinois *Malden, ...

, Thames Ditton, Surrey * Marwell Zoo Railway, Colden Common, Hampshire *

Moors Valley Railway The Moors Valley Railway is a narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge passenger railway, in the Moors Valley Country Park at Ashley Heath, Dorset, England near Ringwood, Hampshire, Ringwood in Hampshire. There are 20 steam engines and 2 diesel engi ...

, near Ringwood, Hampshire *

Reading Society of Model Engineers Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling ...

, Reading Berkshire * Royal Victoria Railway, Southampton, Hampshire *

Ruislip Lido Railway The Ruislip Lido Railway is a gauge miniature railway around Ruislip Lido in Ruislip, north-west of central London. Running from the main station at Woody Bay by the lido's beach, on a track around the reservoir, the railway passes through Rui ...

, Ruislip, London * South Downs Light Railway, Pulborough, West Sussex * Watford Miniature Railway, Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire * Woking Miniature Railway, Knaphill, Surrey

South West

Standard gauge

* Avon Valley Railway, Bitton, Gloucestershire *

Bideford Railway Heritage Centre The Bideford Railway Heritage Centre CIC (previously the Bideford and Instow Railway Group) in Devon, England, is responsible for the management of the Bideford station site. The company is also responsible for Instow signal box which opens on ...

, Bideford, Devon *

Bodmin & Wenford Railway The Bodmin and Wenford Railway (BWR) is a heritage railway, based at Bodmin in Cornwall, England. It has an interchange with the national rail network at Bodmin Parkway railway station, the southern terminus of the line. History The Great West ...

, Bodmin, Cornwall *

Dartmouth Steam Railway The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between and in Devon, England. Much of the railway's business is from summer tou ...

, Paignton, Devon *

Dean Forest Railway The Dean Forest Railway is a long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The route was part of the former Severn and Wye Railway which ran from Lydney to Cinderford. The society that ope ...

, Norchard, Gloucestershire *

East Somerset Railway The East Somerset Railway is a heritage railway in Somerset, running between Cranmore and Mendip Vale. Prior to the Beeching Axe, the railway was once part of the former Cheddar Valley line that ran from Witham to Yatton, meeting the Somer ...

, Cranmore, Somerset *

Helston Railway The Helston Railway is a heritage railway in Cornwall which aims to rebuild and preserve as much as possible of the former GWR Helston Railway between Nancegollen and Water-Ma-Trout on the outskirts of Helston. It is operated by the Helston ...

, Prospidnick, Cornwall * Plym Valley Railway, Marsh Mills, Plympton, Devon *

Shillingstone Railway Project North Dorset Railway (previously known as the Shillingstone Station Project, the North Dorset Railway Trust and the Shillingstone Railway Project) is a heritage railway based at Shillingstone railway station on the former Somerset and Dorset Jo ...

, Shillingstone, Dorset * Somerset & Dorset Railway, Midsomer Norton, Somerset * South Devon Railway, Buckfastleigh, Devon * Swanage Railway, Swanage, Dorset *

Swindon & Cricklade Railway The Swindon and Cricklade Railway is a heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, that operates on a short section of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade. Swindon and Cricklade Railway is a regis ...

, Blunsdon, Wiltshire *

West Somerset Railway The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England. The freehold of the line and stations is owned by Somerset County Council; the railway is leased to and operated by West Somerset Railway plc (WSR plc); which i ...

, Minehead, Somerset *

Railway centres and museums

* Bristol Harbour Railway, Bristol *

Steam – Museum of the Great Western Railway STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'. The museum opened in 2000. The site The museum is ...

, Swindon, Wiltshire * Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil, Somerset

Narrow gauge

* Bicton Woodland Railway, Devon *

Devon Railway Centre The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway. The Centre op ...

, Bickleigh, Devon * Exmoor Steam Railway, Devon – ''private site'' *

Gartell Light Railway The Gartell Light Railway is a privately run narrow gauge railway located at Yenston in the Blackmore Vale, south of Templecombe, in Somerset, England. It operates a narrow gauge railway running for , partly along the track of the old Somerse ...

, Templecombe, Somerset * Launceston Steam Railway, Launceston, Cornwall * Lea Bailey Light Railway. Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border * Lynbarn Railway, Devon * Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Woody Bay, Devon * Morwellham Quay Open Air Museum, Devon Exmouth Miniature Railway

Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum The Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum of Steam Power and Land Drainage is a small industrial heritage museum dedicated to steam powered machinery at Westonzoyland in the English county of Somerset. It is a Grade II* listed building. The mus ...

, Somerset

Miniature gauge

* Beer Heights Light Railway, Devon *

Berkeley Light Railway Berkeley most often refers to: *Berkeley, California, a city in the United States **University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California *George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher Berkeley may also refer t ...

, Gloucestershire
Exmouth Miniature Railway
Devon *

Gorse Blossom Farm Railway ''Ulex'' (commonly known as gorse, furze, or whin) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species ...

, Devon *

Lappa Valley Steam Railway The Lappa Valley Railway is a minimum gauge railway located near Newquay in Cornwall. The railway functions as a tourist attraction, running from Benny Halt () to East Wheal Rose (), where there is a leisure area with two miniature railways. ...

, Cornwall * Longleat Railway, Wiltshire *

, Ashley Heath, Dorset * Perrygrove Railway, Coleford, Gloucestershire * Porterswick Junction Light Railway, Cornwall * Bickington Steam Railway, Trago Mills, Devon

Tramways

Seaton Tramway The Seaton Tramway is a narrow gauge electric tramway in the East Devon district of South West England. The route runs alongside the Axe Estuary and the River Coly, running between the coastal resort of Seaton, the village of Colyford, an ...

, Seaton, Devon

West Midlands

Standard gauge

Cambrian Heritage Railways The Cambrian Heritage Railways is a heritage railway company, trust and society based at both Llynclys and Oswestry in its newly restored Oswestry railway station, Shropshire, England. Formed after the 2009 merger of the Cambrian Railways S ...

, Oswestry and Llynclys, Shropshire *

Chasewater Railway The Chasewater Railway is a former colliery railway running round the shores of Chasewater in Staffordshire, England. It is now operated as a heritage railway. The line is approximately in length, contained entirely within Chasewater Countr ...

, Chasewater Country Park, Brownhills, Staffordshire *

Churnet Valley Railway The Churnet Valley Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway in the Staffordshire Moorlands of Staffordshire, England. It operates on part of the former Churnet Valley Line.which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway. ...

, Cheddleton, Staffordshire *

Foxfield Light Railway The Foxfield Railway is a preserved standard gauge line located south east of Stoke-on-Trent. The line was built in 1893 to serve the colliery at Dilhorne on the Cheadle Coalfield. It joined the North Staffordshire Railway line near Blythe B ...

, Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire *

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border of the Cotswolds, England. The GWSR has restored and reope ...

, Toddington, Gloucestershire and Broadway, Worcestershire *

Severn Valley Railway The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England. The heritage line runs along the Severn Valley from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster, following the course of the River Severn for much of its route, and c ...

, Bridgnorth, Shropshire *

Telford Steam Railway The Telford Steam Railway (TSR) is a heritage railway located at Horsehay, Telford in Shropshire, England, formed in 1976. The railway is operated by volunteers on Sundays and Bank Holidays from Easter to the end of September, and at Christmas. ...

, Horsehay, Shropshire

Railway centres and museums

Coleford Great Western Railway Museum Coleford Great Western Railway Museum is a railway museum located in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway. There was also another station situated at ...

, Coleford, Gloucestershire * Tyseley Railway Centre, Tyseley, Warwickshire * Winchcombe Railway Museum, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

Narrow gauge

Amerton Railway The Amerton Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the English county of Staffordshire. It is owned by Staffordshire Narrow Gauge Railway Limited, a registered charity, and operated by volunteers. Construction of the railway started in ...

, Staffordshire * Apedale Valley Light Railway, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire *

Bromyard and Linton Light Railway The Bromyard and Linton Light Railway is a single track, narrow gauge railway line that runs between Bromyard and the Linton Industrial Estate, just off the A44. The track is laid on the bed of the old BR Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Ra ...

, Bromyard, Herefordshire – ''private site'' * Moseley Railway Trust, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire * North Gloucestershire Railway, Toddington, Gloucestershire * Perrygrove Railway, Gloucestershire *

Rudyard Lake Steam Railway The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway is a ridable miniature railway and the third railway of any gauge to run along the side of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England. Overview The railway runs for on the track bed of an old standard gauge North St ...

, Rudyard, Staffordshire * Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth, Staffordshire – ''private site''

Miniature gauge

* Broomy Hill Railway, Herefordshire *

Downs Light Railway The Downs Light Railway is the world's oldest private miniature railway,Tom Banner;Downs Light Railway response to Downs School merger, Malvern Gazette, 22 April 2022.(Retrieved 3 Dec 2022) with a track gauge of . The railway is located within ...

, Colwall, Worcestershire (also the oldest private miniature railway worldwide) * Echills Wood Railway, Kingsbury Waterpark, Warwickshire *

Evesham Vale Light Railway The Evesham Vale Light Railway operates in Evesham Country Park in Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the ...

, Evesham Country Park, Worcestershire * Weston Park Railway, Shropshire

Tramways

Black Country Living Museum The Black Country Living Museum (formerly the Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England.

, Dudley, West Midlands

Proposed

East of England

* Leiston Works Railway, Leiston, Suffolk (currently under construction) *

Southwold Railway The Southwold Railway was a narrow gauge railway line between Halesworth and Southwold in the English county of Suffolk. long, it was narrow gauge. It opened in 1879 and closed in 1929. Intermediate stations were at Wenhaston, Blythburgh ...

, Southwold, Suffolk * Wisbech and March Railway, Waldersea, Cambridgeshire

North of England

* Poulton and Wyre Railway, Thornton–Cleveleys, Lancashire (under restoration)

South of England

* Combe Rail, Mortehoe-Woolacombe, Devon * Remembrance Line, Folkestone, Kent * North Somerset Railway, Radstock, Somerset *

, Shillingstone, Dorset (under construction) *

Tarka Valley Railway The Tarka Valley Railway in Devon, England, is a heritage railway that plans to rebuild the Torrington to Bideford section of the Barnstaple railway station, Barnstaple to Halwill Junction railway station, Halwill Junction railway line. So far a ...

, Torrington, Devon (display museum at former station house, public house only) * Vale of Berkeley Railway, Sharpness, Gloucestershire

Defunct

Ashford Steam Centre Ashford Steam Centre was a short-lived railway museum at Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. It was located at the former engine shed that was situated east of Ashford railway station. The museum opened in 1968 and closed in 1976. H ...

, Willesborough, Kent – closed in 1976. *

Abbey Light Railway The Abbey Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Built by enthusiasts, the Railway ran from the nearby Bridge Road commercial area into the grounds of Kirkstall Abbey, operating most Sundays. H ...

, Kirkstall, West Yorkshire – closed in 2012. *

Brockham Railway Museum The Brockham Railway Museum was a narrow gauge railway based at the site of the Brockham Limeworks, near Dorking, Surrey. When it closed in 1982, the majority of the collection was moved to the Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre where it fo ...

, Dorking, Surrey – closed 1982 (Stock moved to Amberley Museum Railway, West Sussex) *

Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway The Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway or Bolebroke Castle and Lakes Railway (often abbreviated to BC&LR) was a railway that ran within the grounds of Bolebroke Castle Bolebroke Castle is a 15th-century hunting lodge located north of the villa ...

, East Sussex – closed 2012 * Buxton Steam Centre, Derbyshire – closed in 1987, as Peak Rail moved to Darley Dale. * Cadeby Light Railway, Cadeby, Leicestershire – closed in 2005. *

Chester Zoo monorail The Chester Zoo monorail was an internal transport system at Chester Zoo that operated from 1991 to 2019. Description The system was long and travelled on a single track elevated guideway, a straddle beam monorail, to give views of the zoo grou ...

Chester Zoo Chester Zoo is a zoo at Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family. It is one of the UK's largest zoos at . The zoo has a total land holding of approximately . Chester Zoo is ope ...

, Chester * Creekmoor Light Railway, Poole, Dorset – closed in 1973 *

Dinting Railway Centre Dinting railway station serves the village of Dinting near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Manchester-Glossop Line, east of Manchester Piccadilly. Prior to the Woodhead Line closure in 1981, Dinting was a station on a ...

, Derbyshire – closed in 1991, (Society moved to Ingrow (West) station on the KWVR, West Yorkshire.) *

Dowty Railway Centre Dowty may refer to: *Dowty Group, a British aircraft equipment manufacturing business People with the surname * Alan Dowty, international relations scholar * David Dowty, American linguist * George Dowty, British inventor and businessman See also ...

, Ashchurch, Gloucestershire – closed in the 1980s * Eastbourne Tramway, East Sussex – closed 1969, (moved to Seaton, Devon) *

Electric Railway Museum, Warwickshire The Electric Railway Museum (formerly the Coventry Railway Centre) was located in Warwickshire, south-east of Coventry, near the village of Baginton. The heritage railway centre was immediately adjacent to Coventry Airport and so it was also kno ...

- closed in October 2017, (rolling stock relocated to other preserved railways across the UK). *

Great Yorkshire Railway Preservation Society The Great Yorkshire Railway Preservation Society was a short-lived preservation scheme, based in Starbeck, North Yorkshire in England. It was formed in 1980 with the aim of restoring part of the Leeds-Northallerton Railway and based at the for ...

, Starbeck, North Yorkshire – closed in 1989 (Group moved to Murton, near York, to restore part of the former

) * Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, Humberston, Lincolnshire – closed 1985 - Rebuilt 2009 in Skegness. *

Markeaton Park Light Railway The Markeaton Park Light Railway was a Track gauge, gauge Light rail, light railway line located within Markeaton Park in the city of Derby, Derbyshire, England. The railway was first opened in 1989, extended in 1996, and closed down in Septembe ...

, Rowsley, Derbyshire - closed in 2016, track lifted in 2017. *

Museum of British Transport, Clapham A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

, South London – closed in 1973. Some exhibits moved first to Syon Park, West London and subsequently to Covent Garden to form London Transport Museum. Some exhibits moved to N.R.M. York. *

North Downs Steam Railway North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' i ...

, Dartford, Kent – closed in 1995 (society merged with Spa Valley Railway) *

North Woolwich Old Station Museum The North Woolwich Old Station Museum was a small railway museum in North Woolwich, in Newham, East London. Located in the former Great Eastern Railway terminal station building at North Woolwich railway station, the museum opened in 1984. It ...

, East London – closed in 2008 *

Queen Mary's Hospital Miniature Railway Queen or QUEEN may refer to: Monarchy * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom ** List of queens regnant * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, the widow of a king * Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mothe ...

, Carshalton, South London - Closed in 1997 * Ramsgate Tunnel Railway, Ramsgate, Kent – closed in 1965 * Snibston Railway, Coalville, Leicestershire – closed on 31 July 2015 (as with the Discovery Museum, itself) * Southport Pier Tramway, Southport, Merseyside - closed 2015 * Southport Railway Museum, Southport, Lancashire – closed in 1999 (Society moved to Preston Docks as the

). * Stevington & Turvey Light Railway, Turvey, Bedfordshire – ''private site'' - closed in 2014. *

Transperience Transperience was a short-lived museum of passenger transport located at Low Moor, in the south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, Northern England. It opened in July 1995, but closed only 2 years later in October 1997, with debts of over £1 ...

, Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire – closed in 1997 *

Westerham Valley Railway Association Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 3.4 miles east of Oxted and 6 miles west of Sevenoaks, adjacent to the Kent border with both Greater London and Surrey. It is recorded as early as ...

, Westerham, Kent – closed 1965 (merged with Kent and East Sussex Railway Preservation Society with a few items of stock transferred to KWVR.)

Northern Ireland

''See

List of heritage railways in Northern Ireland There are a number of heritage railways in Northern Ireland, reflecting Ireland's long railway history. Some of the primary sites include: *The Downpatrick & Co Down Railway in County Down is located on part of the former Belfast & County Dow ...

Irish broad gauge

Downpatrick and County Down Railway The Downpatrick and County Down Railway (DCDR) is a five-foot, three-inch (1,600 mm) gauge heritage railway in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is operated by volunteers and runs passenger trains using steam and diesel locomotives, diesel ra ...

, County Down

Railway centres and museums

Railway Preservation Society of Ireland The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) is an Irish railway preservation group operating throughout Ireland, founded in 1964. Mainline steam train railtours are operated from Dublin and Belfast, but occasionally from other locatio ...

, Whitehead, County Antrim *

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum The Ulster Folk Museum and the Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about east of the city of Belfast. The Folk Museum endeavours to illustrate the way of life and traditions of the people in Northern Ireland, past ...

, Cultra, County Down

Narrow gauge

Foyle Valley Railway The Foyle Valley Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Derry, Northern Ireland. Foyle Valley Railway Museum was initially opened in 1990 on the site of Foyle Road station of the GNR (Ireland). In August 2016, Destined Ltd, a charity ...

, County Londonderry * Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway, County Antrim

Scotland

Standard gauge

Central Highlands

* Keith & Dufftown Railway, Dufftown, Banffshire and Keith, Morayshire * Strathspey Railway, Aviemore, Highland

East Coast of Scotland

Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway The Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway is a heritage railway in Bo'ness, Scotland. It is operated by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS), and operates a total of over of track (between Bo'ness and Manuel Junction, via Kinneil and Birkh ...

, Bo'ness, Falkirk *

Fife Heritage Railway Fife Heritage Railway is a heritage railway run by The Kingdom of Fife Railway Preservation Society, formed in 1992, which aims to showcase the heritage of the railways of Fife and restore locomotives and rolling stock that once worked in Fife. ...

, Leven, Fife *

Caledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh an ...

, Brechin, Angus *

Royal Deeside Railway The Royal Deeside Railway is a Scottish heritage railway located at Milton of Crathes railway station on a part of the original Deeside Railway. Original Railway Originally constructed between 1853 and 1866, the Deeside Railway ran betwe ...

, Milton of Crathes, Aberdeenshire

Scottish Borders

Waverley Route Heritage Association Waverley Route Heritage Association is a heritage railway group involved with the history, heritage and preservation of the Waverley Route, based/centred on Whitrope, south of Hawick, Scotland. Current projects include the restoration of the 1 ...

, Whitrope, Roxburghshire

Railway centres and museums

* Doon Valley Railway, Dunaskin - Waterside, East Ayrshire *

Ferryhill Railway Heritage Trust Ferryhill is a town in County Durham, England, with an estimated population in 2018 of 9,362. The town grew in the 1900s around the coal mining industry. The last mine officially closed in 1968. It is located between the towns of Bishop Auckland ...

Glasgow Museum of Transport The Riverside Museum (formerly known as the Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in Glasgow, housed in a building at Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration district of Glasgow, Scotland. The building opened in June 2011, winnin ...

* Invergarry & Fort Augustus Railway Museum * Lathalmond Railway Museum, Lathalmond, Fife

Narrow gauge

* Alford Valley Railway, Alford, Aberdeenshire *

Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway is a narrow gauge railway in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is laid on the trackbed of the former Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch of the Caledonian Railway which led off the main line between and Glasgo ...

, South Lanarkshire

Miniature railways

* Craigtoun Miniature Railway, St Andrews, Fife *

Ness Islands Railway The Ness Islands Railway is a gauge miniature railway in Inverness, Scotland, opened in 1983. Overview Operating around a site in Whin Park, near the Ness Islands, an area popular for recreation amongst tourists and the local population, the ...

, Inverness * Vogrie Park Miniature Railway, Gorebridge, nr Edinburgh * Strathaven Miniature Railway , Strathaven , South Lanarkshire

Tramways

Summerlee Heritage Park Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life is an industrial and social history museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated on the site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works and the former Hydrocon Crane factory. The m ...

, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire

Proposed

* North East of Scotland Railway *

Farming and Railway Visiting Centre Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

, Fife (under construction)

Defunct

Isle of Mull Railway The Isle of Mull Railway was a gauge line, long, which ran from the ferry terminal at Craignure to Torosay Castle, on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. Originally it was known as the Mull and West Highland Railway (Mull and W ...

, Inner Hebrides – closed in 2011. * Kerr's Miniature Railway, Arbroath - closed in 2020. *

Lochty Private Railway The East Fife Central Railway was a mineral railway line in Fife, Scotland, that ran from near Leven, Fife, Leven to Lochty, Fife, Lochty. It was intended to develop extensive coal measures in the area, but in fact they proved to be uneconomic. T ...

, Fife – closed in 1992. *

Sanday Light Railway The Sanday Light Railway was a privately owned ridable miniature railway situated in Braeswick, on the island of Sanday, Orkney, Scotland. The railway was of gauge. The first rails were laid down in 1999, and the line closed at the end of 20 ...

, Braeswick, Orkney – closed in 2006.

Wales

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Llanberis Lake Railway The Llanberis Lake Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd Llyn Padarn) is a narrow gauge heritage railway that runs for along the northern shore of Llyn Padarn in north Wales in the Snowdonia National Park. The starting point is the village of Llanberis a ...

Snowdon Mountain Railway steep descent.jpg, The

Snowdon Mountain Railway The Snowdon Mountain Railway (SMR; cy, Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a Narrow-gauge railway, narrow gauge Rack railway, rack and pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a tourist railway that travels for from Llanberis to the ...

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Welsh Highland Railway The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) or Rheilffordd Eryri is a long, restored narrow gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations ...

North Wales

Mid Wales

South Wales

Proposed

North Wales

=Standard gauge

= * Dolgarrog Railway, Conwy (under construction) * Bala & Ffestiniog Railway Heritage Trust, Maentwrog Road, Gwynedd (currently under restoration)

=Narrow gauge

= *

Glyn Valley Tramway Glyn means "Valley" in Welsh and may refer to: *Glyn (name), including a list of people with the name *Baron Glyn, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom *Glyn baronets, created for members of the Glyn family *Glyn Ceiriog, a former slate ...

, Chirk, Denbighshire

South Wales

=Standard gauge

= *

Garw Valley Railway The Garw Valley Railway is the trading name of the Bridgend Valleys Railway Company Limited. It operates a short section of railway located in South Wales, which is being recreated as a heritage railway. Formerly part of the Llynvi and Ogmore ...

, Pontycymer, Bridgend * Maerdy Heritage Railway, Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taf

Defunct

Butetown Historical Railway Society Butetown (or ''The Docks'', cy, Tre-biwt) is a district and community in the south of the city of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early 19th century by the 2nd Marquess of Bute, for whos ...

, Cardiff Bay – closed in 1997, moved to Barry Tourist Railway *

Caerphilly Railway Society Caerphilly (, ; cy, Caerffili, ) is a town and community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is north of Cardiff and northwest of Newport. It is the largest town in Caerphilly County Borough, and lies wit ...

Caerphilly Railway Works Caerphilly railway works in Caerphilly ( cy, Caerffili) in the county of Glamorgan was the only main railway works in Wales. It was built for the Rhymney Railway in 1899 and taken over by the Great Western Railway at amalgamation in 1923. Mu ...

– closed 1996, moved to Gwili Railway *

Gloddfa Ganol Gloddfa Ganol (also known as the Gloddfa Ganol Mountain Center) was a museum dedicated to the Welsh slate industry and narrow-gauge railways, situated in the Oakeley slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. It opened in 1974 and closed in 1998 follo ...

, Blaenau Ffestiniog - museum of narrow-gauge railways, closed in 1998, stock sold at auction * Swansea Vale Railway, Pentrechwyth – closed in 2009, (most of the track and rolling stock are now located on the Gwili Railway). *

Penrhyn Quarry Railway The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales. It served the Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, taking their slate produce to Port Penrhyn, near Bangor. The railway was around long and used a gauge ...

, Bethesda, Gwynedd * Trawsfynydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway, Closed and replaced by Bala & Ffestiniog Railway Heritage Trust

Crown dependencies

Isle of Man

Douglas Bay Horse Tramway The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway ( gv, Raad Yiarn Cabbyl Vaie Ghoolish) on the Isle of Man runs along the seafront promenade for approximately , from the southern terminus at the Victoria Pier, adjacent to the Isle of Man Sea Terminal, to Derby Ca ...

Douglas Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals * Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civi ...

* Great Laxey Mine Railway,

Laxey Laxey ( gv, Laksaa) is a village on the east coast of the Isle of Man. Its name derives from the Old Norse ''Laxa'' meaning 'Salmon River'. Its key distinguishing features are its three working vintage railways and the largest working waterwhe ...

* Groudle Glen Railway, Lhen Coan *

Isle of Man Railway The Isle of Man Railway (IMR) ( gv, Raad Yiarn Vannin) is a narrow gauge steam-operated railway connecting Douglas with Castletown and Port Erin on the Isle of Man. The line is narrow gauge and long. It is the remainder of what was a mu ...

Manx Electric Railway The Manx Electric Railway ( Manx: ''Raad Yiarn Lectragh Vannin'') is an electric interurban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey in the Isle of Man. It connects with the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway at its southern terminus at Derby Castle ...

, Derby Castle *

Snaefell Mountain Railway The Snaefell Mountain Railway ( gv, Raad Yiarn Sniaull) is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe. It joins the village of Laxey with the summit of Snaefell, at above sea level the highest point on the island. It connects w ...

* Crogga Valley Railway, Port Soderick railway station

Miniature gauge

Orchid Line The Orchid Line is a multi-gauge miniature railway operating within the Curraghs Wildlife Park in the north of the Isle of Man and is operated by the Manx Model Engineering Society. It was opened in May 1992. The track combines up to three gau ...

Curraghs Wildlife Park Curraghs Wildlife Park is a wildlife park in The Curraghs (also known as the Ballaugh Curraghs), an area of wetland in the north-west of the Isle of Man. The park is owned by the Isle of Man Government and is administered by the Department ...

Curraghs The Curraghs or Ballaugh Curraghs are a wetland in Ballaugh parish in the north-west of the Isle of Man. The area has a rich and varied biodiversity and is also the location of the Curraghs Wildlife Park, a zoo and nature reserve that incorpora ...

Derelict

Queen's Pier Tramway Queen's Pier, Ramsey is long and was built for the Isle of Man Harbour Board for the sum of £40,752 (about £4.3 million in today's terms) by Head Wrightson of Stockton-on-Tees, England. The designer was Sir John Coode, who later became presi ...

Ramsey Ramsey may refer to: Geography British Isles * Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, a small market town in England * Ramsey, Essex, a village near Harwich, England ** Ramsey and Parkeston, a civil parish formerly called just "Ramsey" * Ramsey, Isle of Man, t ...

* Second Falcon Cliff lift,

See '' Rail transport in the Isle of Man''.

Channel Islands

Alderney Railway The Alderney Railway on Alderney is the only railway in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and the only working railway in the Channel Islands. (There is a standard gauge railway at the Pallot Heritage Steam Museum in Jersey, but this provides no actua ...

, Alderney *

Pallot Heritage Steam Museum The Pallot Heritage Steam Museum is a mechanical heritage museum located in Rue De Bechet in the Parish of Trinity on the island of Jersey. Museum origins Lyndon Pallot (known as Don) amassed a large collection of Jersey's mechanical, agricul ...

Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the l ...

British Overseas Territories

Falkland Islands

Camber Railway The Camber Railway was a narrow gauge railway located on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It was one of the most southerly railways in the world. The Camber Railway was constructed to support the Admiralty wireless station, suppl ...

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(defunct)

References

External links

International Working Steam

Heritage Railways Directory

National Preservation forum

Britains Great Little Railways

Waverley Route
{{Heritage railways in the Channel Islands

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