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 and Wormshill Light Railway, Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, near Sittingbourne, Kent * Exbury Gardens#Steam railway, Exbury Gardens Railway, Beaulieu, Hampshire * Hayling Seaside Railway, Hayling Island, Hampshire * Hollycombe Steam Collection, near Liphook, Hampshire * Hythe Pier, Railway and Ferry, Hythe Pier Ferry Railway, Hampshire * Old Kiln Light Railway, Rural Life Centre, Reeds Road, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey * Metropolitan Water Board Railway, Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway, Hanworth/Hampton, London. * London Museum of Water & Steam, Kew Bridge, Brentford, London * Mail Rail, short section of the former London Post Office Railway opened to public since 2017 * Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, Kent * Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway, Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, Kent * Volk's Electric Railway, Brighton, East Sussex

Miniature gauge

* Bekonscot Light Railway, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire * Blenheim Park Railway, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire * Beech Hurst Park Miniature Railway, Haywards Heath, West Sussex * Crowborough Miniature Railway, Crowborough, East Sussex * Lakeside Country Park#Eastleigh Lakeside Railway, Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway, Hampshire * Frimley Lodge Park Railway, Surrey * Great Cockcrow Railway, Chertsey, Surrey * Harlington Locomotive Society, Hayes, Middlesex * Hastings Miniature Railway, Hastings Seafront, East Sussex * Ickenham Miniature Railway, Ickenham, London * Malden District Society of Model Engineers, Thames Ditton, Surrey * Marwell Zoo#Facilities, Marwell Zoo Railway, Colden Common, Hampshire * Moors Valley Railway, near Ringwood, Hampshire * Reading Society of Model Engineers, Reading Berkshire * Royal Victoria Railway, Southampton, Hampshire * Ruislip Lido Railway, 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, Bideford, Devon * Bodmin and Wenford Railway, Bodmin & Wenford Railway, Bodmin, Cornwall * Dartmouth Steam Railway, Paignton, Devon * Dean Forest Railway, Norchard, Gloucestershire * East Somerset Railway, Cranmore, Somerset * Helston Railway Preservation Company, Helston Railway, Prospidnick, Cornwall * Plym Valley Railway, Marsh Mills, Plympton, Devon * Shillingstone Railway Project, Shillingstone, Dorset * Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust, Somerset & Dorset Railway, Midsomer Norton, Somerset * South Devon Railway (heritage railway), South Devon Railway, Buckfastleigh, Devon * Swanage Railway, Swanage, Dorset * Swindon and Cricklade Railway, Swindon & Cricklade Railway, Blunsdon, Wiltshire * West Somerset Railway, Minehead, Somerset *

Railway centres and museums

* Bristol Harbour Railway, Bristol * Steam – Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon, Wiltshire * Yeovil Railway Centre, Yeovil, Somerset

Narrow gauge

* Bicton Woodland Railway, Devon * Devon Railway Centre, Bickleigh, Devon * Exmoor Steam Railway, Devon – ''private site'' * Gartell Light Railway, Templecombe, Somerset * Launceston Steam Railway, Launceston, Cornwall * Lea Bailey Light Railway. Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border * Lynbarn Railway, Devon * Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Woody Bay, Devon * Morwellham Quay, Morwellham Quay Open Air Museum, Devon

* Westonzoyland Light Railway, Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Somerset

Miniature gauge

* Beer Heights Light Railway, Devon * Berkeley Light Railway, Gloucestershire
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Devon * Gorse Blossom Farm Railway, Devon * Lappa Valley Steam Railway, Cornwall * Longleat Safari Park#Longleat Railway, Longleat Railway, Wiltshire * Moors Valley Railway, Ashley Heath, Dorset * Perrygrove Railway, Coleford, Gloucestershire * Porterswick Junction Light Railway, Cornwall * Bickington Steam Railway, Trago Mills, Devon

Tramways

* Seaton Tramway, Seaton, Devon

West Midlands

Standard gauge

* Cambrian Heritage Railways, Oswestry and Llynclys, Shropshire * Chasewater Railway, Chasewater Country Park, Brownhills, Staffordshire * Churnet Valley Railway, Cheddleton, Staffordshire * Foxfield Light Railway, Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire * Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, Toddington, Gloucestershire and Broadway, Worcestershire * Severn Valley Railway, Bridgnorth, Shropshire * Telford Steam Railway, Horsehay, Shropshire

Railway centres and museums

* Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire * Tyseley Locomotive Works, Tyseley Railway Centre, Tyseley, Warwickshire * Winchcombe Railway Museum, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire

Narrow gauge

* Amerton Railway, Staffordshire * Moseley Railway Trust, Apedale Valley Light Railway, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire * Bromyard and Linton Light Railway, Bromyard, Herefordshire – ''private site'' * Moseley Railway Trust, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire * North Gloucestershire Railway, Toddington, Gloucestershire * Perrygrove Railway, Gloucestershire * Rudyard Lake Steam Railway, Rudyard, Staffordshire * Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth, Staffordshire – ''private site''

Miniature gauge

* Broomy Hill Railway, Herefordshire * Downs Light Railway, Colwall, Worcestershire (also the oldest private miniature railway worldwide) * Echills Wood Railway, Kingsbury Waterpark, Warwickshire * Evesham Vale Light Railway, Evesham Country Park, Worcestershire * Weston Park#Royal, summit and festival venue, Weston Park Railway, Shropshire

Tramways

* Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands

Proposed

East of England

* Leiston Works Railway, Leiston, Suffolk (currently under construction) * Southwold Railway, Southwold, Suffolk * Wisbech and March Bramley Line, Wisbech and March Railway, Waldersea, Cambridgeshire

North of England

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

South of England

* Ilfracombe Branch Line, Combe Rail, Mortehoe-Woolacombe, Devon * Remembrance Line, Folkestone, Kent * Bristol and North Somerset Railway, North Somerset Railway, Radstock, Somerset * Shillingstone Railway Project, Shillingstone, Dorset (under construction) * Torrington railway station, Tarka Valley Railway, Torrington, Devon (display museum at former station house, public house only) * Sharpness Branch Line#Re-opening proposal, Vale of Berkeley Railway, Sharpness, Gloucestershire

Defunct

* Ashford Steam Centre, Willesborough, Kent – closed in 1976. * Abbey Light Railway, Kirkstall, West Yorkshire – closed in 2012. * Brockham Railway Museum, Dorking, Surrey – closed 1982 (Stock moved to Amberley Museum Railway, West Sussex) * Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway, East Sussex – closed 2012 * Peak Rail, 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, Chester Zoo, Chester * Creekmoor Light Railway, Poole, Dorset – closed in 1973 * Dinting railway station, Dinting Railway Centre, Derbyshire – closed in 1991, (Society moved to Ingrow (West) station on the KWVR, West Yorkshire.) * Dowty Railway Centre, Ashchurch, Gloucestershire – closed in the 1980s * Seaton Tramway, Eastbourne Tramway, East Sussex – closed 1969, (moved to Seaton, Devon) * Electric Railway Museum, Warwickshire - closed in October 2017, (rolling stock relocated to other preserved railways across the UK). * Great Yorkshire Railway Preservation Society, 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, Rowsley, Derbyshire - closed in 2016, track lifted in 2017. * Museum of British Transport, Clapham, 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, Dartford, Kent – closed in 1995 (society merged with Spa Valley Railway) * North Woolwich Old Station Museum, East London – closed in 2008 * Queen Mary's Hospital Miniature Railway, Carshalton, South London - Closed in 1997 * Tunnel Railway, 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 and Turvey Light Railway, Stevington & Turvey Light Railway, Turvey, Bedfordshire – ''private site'' - closed in 2014. * Transperience, Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire – closed in 1997 * Westerham Valley Railway Association, 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''

Irish broad gauge

* Downpatrick and County Down Railway, County Down

Railway centres and museums

* Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, Whitehead, County Antrim * Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down

Narrow gauge

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

Scotland

Standard gauge

Central Highlands

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

East Coast of Scotland

* Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway, Bo'ness, Falkirk * Fife Heritage Railway, Leven, Fife * Caledonian Railway (Brechin), Caledonian Railway, Brechin, Angus * Royal Deeside Railway, Milton of Crathes, Aberdeenshire

Scottish Borders

* Waverley Route Heritage Association, Whitrope, Roxburghshire

Railway centres and museums

* Scottish Industrial Railway Centre, Doon Valley Railway, Dunaskin - Waterside, East Ayrshire * Ferryhill Railway Heritage Trust * Glasgow Museum of Transport * Invergarry & Fort Augustus Railway Museum * Lathalmond Railway Museum, Lathalmond, Fife

Narrow gauge

* Alford Valley Railway, Alford, Aberdeenshire * Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, South Lanarkshire

Miniature railways

* Craigtoun Miniature Railway, St Andrews, Fife * Ness Islands Railway, Inverness * Vogrie Park Miniature Railway, Gorebridge, nr Edinburgh * Strathaven Miniature Railway , Strathaven , South Lanarkshire

Tramways

* Summerlee Heritage Park, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire

Proposed

* Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway, North East of Scotland Railway * Farming and Railway Visiting Centre, Fife (under construction)

Defunct

* Isle of Mull Railway, Inner Hebrides – closed in 2011. * Kerr's Miniature Railway, Arbroath - closed in 2020. * Lochty Private Railway, Fife – closed in 1992. * Sanday Light Railway, Braeswick, Orkney – closed in 2006.

Wales

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North Wales

Mid Wales

South Wales

Proposed

North Wales

=Standard gauge

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

=Narrow gauge

= * Glyn Valley Tramway, Chirk, Denbighshire

South Wales

=Standard gauge

= * Garw Valley Railway, Pontycymer, Bridgend * Maerdy Branch, Maerdy Heritage Railway, Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taf

Defunct

* Butetown Historical Railway Society, Cardiff Bay railway station, Cardiff Bay – closed in 1997, moved to Barry Tourist Railway * Caerphilly Railway Society, Caerphilly railway works, Caerphilly Railway Works – closed 1996, moved to Gwili Railway * Gloddfa Ganol, 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, Bethesda, Gwynedd * Bala and Ffestiniog Railway#Heritage railway preservation attempts, Trawsfynydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway, Closed and replaced by Bala & Ffestiniog Railway Heritage Trust

Crown dependencies

Isle of Man

* Douglas Bay Horse Tramway, Douglas, Isle of Man, Douglas * Great Laxey Mine Railway, Laxey * Groudle Glen Railway, Lhen Coan railway station, Lhen Coan * Isle of Man Railway, Douglas railway station, Douglas * Manx Electric Railway, Derby Castle terminus, Derby Castle * Snaefell Mountain Railway, Laxey station, Laxey * Port Soderick railway station#Crogga Valley Railway, Crogga Valley Railway, Port Soderick railway station

Miniature gauge

* Orchid Line, Curraghs Wildlife Park, Curraghs

Derelict

* Queen's Pier Tramway, Ramsey, Isle of Man, Ramsey * Second Falcon Cliff lift, Douglas, Isle of Man, Douglas See ''Rail transport in the Isle of Man''.

Channel Islands

* Alderney Railway, Alderney * Pallot Heritage Steam Museum, Jersey

British Overseas Territories

Falkland Islands

* Camber Railway, Stanley, Falkland Islands, Stanley (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 Heritage railways in the United Kingdom, List Lists of heritage railways, British heritage and private railways Lists of railway lines in Great Britain, Heritage and private railways

England

East of England

Standard gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature gauge

Tramways

East Midlands

Standard gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature gauge

Tramways

North England

Standard gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature gauge

Tramways

South East

Standard gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature gauge

South West

Standard gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature gauge

Tramways

West Midlands

Standard gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature gauge

Tramways

Proposed

East of England

North of England

South of England

Defunct

Northern Ireland

Irish broad gauge

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Scotland

Standard gauge

Central Highlands

East Coast of Scotland

Scottish Borders

Railway centres and museums

Narrow gauge

Miniature railways

Tramways

Proposed

Defunct

Wales

North Wales

Mid Wales

South Wales

Proposed

North Wales

=Standard gauge

=Narrow gauge

South Wales

=Standard gauge

Defunct

Crown dependencies

Isle of Man

Miniature gauge

Derelict

Channel Islands

British Overseas Territories

Falkland Islands

See also

References

External links