What heritage/preserved railways have you visited?

Following on from the thread about lines or railway attractions that you’d like to visit but haven’t yet, I thought it would be interesting for all of us list makers to have a thread on what you have actually visited?

@shredder1 (a man that could probably put a winning list together actually), did attempt to list all of the sites, railways etc a few years ago in this thread:

I think this post showed the final updated list, although I notice more things kept popping up after that and he may have just run for the hills at some point.

So lifted from that thread, this is probably 99% of what’s out there. I’m not going to add what I’ve been on in this post as there’s enough info to take in, but if anyone fancies listing what you’ve been on it would be interesting!

Preserved Railways, new build tourist attractions and funiculars in Great Britain.

Aberporth, Clausen Rolling Platform

Aberystwyth Cliff Railway

Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Cliff Railway

Alderney Railway

Alford Valley Railway

Aln Valley Railway

Alton Towers monorail

Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre

Amerton Railway

Apedale Valley Light Railway

Aviemore, Cairngorm Mountain Railway

Avon Valley Railway



Audley End house railway near Stansted.


Babbacombe Cliff Railway

Bala Lake Railway

Barry Tourist Railway

Battlefield Line

Beamish – The Living Museum of the North Chester le Street

Beer Height Railway - Pecorama, Beer.

Bere Ferrers - Heritage Centre

Beaulieu motor museum monorail

Bickington Steam Railway - Trago Mills.

Bicton Park Railway


Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society


Bideford Railway Centre.

Black Country Living Museum tramway.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway

Blaenau Ffestiniog, Llechwedd Slate Caverns

Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway

Bodmin & Wenford Railway

Bournemouth East Cliff Railway

Bournemouth Fisherman's Walk Cliff Railway

Bournemouth West Cliff Railway

Bowes Railway

Brecon Mountain Railway

Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway

Bressingham Railway and Gardens

Bristol Dock`s Railway

Broadstairs, Broadstairs Cliff Railway – single car, all in tunnel

Brookside Miniature Railway

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

Bure Valley Railway Colne Valley Railway

Cairn Gorm Funicular

Caledonian Railway

Cambrian Railway, (Oswestry).

Carnforth MPD

Cavan and Leitrim Railway, County Leitrim

Chapel and Wakes Railway


Coleford Great Western Railway Museum,


Craigiemains Garden Centre, Ballantrae


Cromford & High Peak -small heritage centre plus inclines/rolling stock


Chessington world of adventures monorail

Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

Cholsey and Wallingford Railway

Christow - TeignRail

Churnet Valley Railway

Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway

Colne Valley Railway

Corris Railway

Crich Tramway Village

Crowle Peatland Railway

Dartmoor Railway

Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company

Dean Forest Railway

Derwent Valley Light Railway

Devon Railway Centre - Bickleigh

Didcot Railway Centre

Douglas Head Incline Railway

Douglas: Falcon Cliff Lift (1887–1990)

Downpatrick & County Down Railway preservation society of Ireland

East Anglian Light Railway/East Anglian Transport Museum

East Anglian Railway Museum , Chapel and Wakes.

East Kent Railway

East Lancashire Railway

East Somerset Railway

Eastbourne minature steam railway

Eastleigh Lake Railway

Ebbw Vale Cableway (opened 2015, 75 foot rise)

Ebbw Vale Garden Festival, Ebbw Vale Garden Festival Funicular

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

Eden Valley Railway, Warcrop

Elsecar Heritage Railway

Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

Epping Ongar Railway

Evesham Vale Light Railway

Exbury Gardens Steam Railway

Fairbourne Steam Railway

Farrell Railway

Fenn Bell Inn railway- in garden of the pub

Ffestiniog Railway

Fife Heritage Railway

Fintown Railway,

Folkestone, Leas Lift – a water-balance type (reopened 2010)

Foxfield Railway

Foyle Valley Railway


Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

Golden Valley Light Railway

Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway


Swanley New Barn railway.

Garw Valley Railway

Garnet Valley Railway, (Bridgend).

Gartell Light Railway

Giant's Causeway tramway

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Great Central Railway (Nottingham)

Great Central Railway, (Loughborough)

Great Cockcrow railway

Great Orme Tramway

Great Whipsnade Railway

Groudle Glen Railway

Gwili Steam Railway

Hastings East Hill Cliff Railway

Hastings West Hill Cliff Railway

Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum

Heaton Park tramway Manchester

Helston Railway


Halton Minature Railway,


Hollycombe collection railway

Hythe Pier Tramway


Invergarry Station

Isle of Wight Steam Railway

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

Keith & Dufftown Railway

Kempton Park pumping engines railway

Kent & East Sussex Railway

Kew Bridge steam museum railway

Kidderminster Funicular

Kirklees Light Railway



Kerr's Miniature Railway, Arbroath


Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway

Lappa Valley Railway

Launceston Steam Railway

Laxey Mines railway

Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway

Leighton Buzzard Railway

Lincolnshire Wolds Railway



Lakeside Miniature Railway Southport


Listowel & Ballybunion monorail

Lizard, The Lizard Lifeboat Station (RNLI)

Llanberis Lake Railway

Llangollen Railway

Llechwedd slate mine cable railway

Locomotion’ - NRM Shildon

London, London Millennium Funicular (opened 2003)

Llynclys Railway, (Cambrian Railway)

Lynton & Barnstaple Railway

Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway

Machynlleth, Centre for Alternative Technology, CAT Funicular

Manchester, URBIS Museum

Mangotts Farm Railway Museum

Manx Electric Railway

Margate, Margate Cliff Railway (Cliftonville Lido) (1913-1970s) – single-car, parallel to cliff

Mid Hants Railway - ‘Watercress Line’

Midland Railway, Butterley

Mid-Norfolk Railway

Midsomer Norton

Mid-Suffolk Light Railway

Moorside Railway


Mizens Railway, Woking-Surrey


National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange


National Railway Museum

Nene Valley Railway

North Bay minature railway Scarborough

North Norfolk Railway - (The Poppy Line)

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Northampton & Lamport Railway

Padstow, Padstow Cliff Railway (RNLI]


Perrygrove Railway,


Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum


Peak Rail

Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway

Port Soderick, Port Soderick Beach Funicular

Princess Rishborough

Purbeck mining museum.

Pym Valley Railway

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

Rhyl Lakeside Railway

Ribble Steam Railway

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

Royal Deeside Railway


Rhiw Minature Railway,


Royal Victoria Country Park railway Southampton.

Rudyard Lake Steam Railway

Ruislip Lido railway

Rutland Rocks by Rail

Salburn Cliff Railway

Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Saltburn Cliff Lift

Scarborough Central Tramway (opened 1880)

Scarborough North Cliff Lift (1930–1996)

Scarborough Queens Parade Cliff Lift (1878–1887)

Scarborough South Cliff Lift (opened 1873)

Scarborough St Nicholas Cliff Lift (1929–2006)

Seaton Tramway

Sennen Cove (private funicular)

Severn Valley Railway

Shillingstone Railway Project

Shipley Glen Tramway

Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway,

Snaefell Mountain Railway

Snowdon Mountain Railway

Somerset/Dorset &DR Heritage Trust

South Devon Railway

South Downs light railway- Pulborough Wyvale garden centre

South Tynedale Railway

Southend Pier Railway

Spa Valley Railway

St Michael's Mount, St. Michael's Mount Tramway (private underground goods funicular)

Stafold Barn Railway

Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen East

Steeple Grange Railway

Stephenson Railway Museum

Strathspey Railway

Summerlee heritage museum Coatbridge tramway

Swanage Railway

Swansea, Constitution Hill Incline Tramway

Swindon and Cricklaide Railway



Saughtree Station


Scottish Industrial Railway Museum/Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group


Stansted Park light Railway


Stapleford Park railway


Talyllyn Railway

Tanfield Railway

Tannat Valley Railway

Teifi Valley Railway

Telford Steam Railway



Threkeld Quarry and Mining Museum, Rushden Station,


The Bluebell Railway

The Lavender Line

The Post Office Museum -Mail Rail

Tralee and Dingle Light Railway.

Vale of Berkeley Railway

Vale of Rheidol Railway

Volks Electric Railway, Brighton

Wakefield, National Coal Mining Museum

Waterford & Suir Valley Railway, from Waterford to Mallow.

Weardale Railway

Wells & Walsingham Light Railway

Welsh Highland Railway

Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway

Wensleydale Railway

West Clare Railway

West Lancs Railway

West Somerset Railway

William McAlpine private Railway

Windsor, Legoland, Legoland Hill Train (formerly Windsor Safari Park Funicular)

Wirral transport museum & heritage tramway



Welsh Highland Heritage Railway

Yeovil Railway Centre

Aberystwyth Cliff Railway
Aln Valley Railway
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Beamish – The Living Museum of the North
Beaulieu motor museum monorail(?)
Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Bure Valley Railway
Colne Valley Railway
Chapel and Wakes Railway
Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway
Colne Valley Railway
Crich Tramway Village
Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company
Didcot Railway Centre
East Anglian Light Railway/East Anglian Transport Museum
East Anglian Railway Museum , Chapel and Wakes.
East Lancashire Railway
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
Epping Ongar Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway
Great Central Railway, (Loughborough)
Great Orme Tramway
Great Whipsnade Railway(?)
Gwili Steam Railway
Hastings East Hill Cliff Railway(?)
Hastings West Hill Cliff Railway(?)
Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum
Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway
Leighton Buzzard Railway
Locomotion
Mid Hants Railway - ‘Watercress Line’
National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange
National Railway Museum
Nene Valley Railway
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum
Peak Rail
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
Ruislip Lido railway
Saltburn Cliff Railway
A Scarborough cliff lift
Seaton Tramway
Severn Valley Railway
Shipley Glen Tramway
South Devon Railway
South Tynedale Railway
Southend Pier Railway(?)
Spa Valley Railway(?)
Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen East
Stephenson Railway Museum
Summerlee heritage museum Coatbridge (visited here and Black Country Living Museum, but not when the trams were running)
Swanage Railway
Tanfield Railway
Threkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
The Bluebell Railway
The Post Office Museum -Mail Rail
Volks Electric Railway, Brighton(?)
Wakefield, National Coal Mining Museum
Weardale Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
West Somerset Railway(?)
Windsor, Legoland, Legoland Hill Train (formerly Windsor Safari Park Funicular)

My list is very short, sadly!

• Bo'ness and Kinneil
• Strathspey

Both visits were several decades ago and both have been extended since then, so I'd like to go back in the near future.

Next on my list is the Keith and Dufftown, and now that we've got the £2 bus fare cap it's going to be a bit cheaper. I may plan a trip when the weather gets a bit warmer.

This is my list broken down by categories.

The locations with a year after them I have only visited once.
If I Have Visited But Not Ridden There Will Be A *

For some lines I would say I was a regular at least once if not several times a year. This Is Particularly For Lines Around Scotland And The North Of England. I even visit Bo'ness Every Week (I am a volunteer!!).

Standard Gauge (Heritage Lines):

Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway
Strasphey Railway
North Yorkshire Moors (202X)*
Peak Rail (2024)*
Royal Deeside Railway (2021)*

Tramways (Narrow & Standard):

Summerlee Tramway

Funicular Railways:

Cairngorm Mountain Railway
Scarborough Funicular (202X)*

Narrow Gauge Railways:
Alford Valley Railway (2021)*
Almond Valley Light Railway

Minature Railways:
Almondell Model Engineering Centre (2023)
Craigtoun Minature Railway (2023)*
Ness Islands Railway (2022)
Scarborough North Bay Railway (202X)

Railway & Tramway Centres:

National Railway Museum (2021)
Museum Of Scottish Railways

This is my list broken down by categories.

The locations with a year after them I have only visited once.

For some lines I would say I was a regular at least once if not several times a year visitor particularly some of those in Wales and West Country.


Standard Gauge

• Bluebell Railway (1971)
• Bodmin Railway
• Cambrian Railways
• Dart Valley Rly Paignton – Kingswear
• Dartmoor Line (pre reassimilation into the network)
• Dean Forest Railway
• East Lancashire Railway
• East Somerset Railway (1983)
• Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway (1990s)
• Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway
• Great Central Railway (2025)
• Gwili Railway (2015)
• Isle of Wight Steam Railway
• Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
• Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway (1980s)
• Llangollen Railway
• Mid Hants Railway
• Pontypool & Blaenafon Railway
• Ribble Steam Railway (2023)
• Severn Valley Railway
• Somerset & Dorset (Midsomer Norton) (2017)
• South Devon Railway
• Swanage Railway
• Tarka Valley (Torrington) / Bideford Railway Heritage Centre
• West Somerset Railway

Narrow Gauge Railways

• Bala Lake Railway
• Bressingham Gardens Railway. (1977)
• Brecon Mountain Railway
• Corris Railway
• Ffestiniog Railway
• George and Charlotte Mine Tramway (Morwellham Quay)
• Groudle Glen Railway
• Isle of Man Railway
• Launceston Steam Railway
• Laxey Mines Railway
• Llanberis Lake Railway
• Llechwedd Slate Caverns (railway now closed) 1980s
• Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
• Snowdon Mountain Railway
• Talyllyn Railway
• Vale of Rheidol Railway
• Welsh Highland Heritage Railway
• Welsh Highland Railway
• Welshpool and Llanfair Railway
• West Clare Railway (now appears to be closed)
• West Lancashire Light Railway

Miniature Railways

• Beer Heights Light Railway
• Crogga Valley Railway (Isle of Man) (2022)
• Fairbourne Railway
• Forest Railroad Dobwalls (closed)
• Lappa Valley Railway
• Orchid Line (Isle of Man) (2024)
• Ravenglass and Eskdale
• Southport Lakeside Railway
• Windmill Farm Railway

Tramways – Narrow and Standard

• Birkenhead Tramway (now closed)
• Blackpool Heritage Trams
• Great Orme Tramway
• Manx Electric Railway
• Seaton & District Electric Tramway
• Snaefell Mountain Railway

Funicular Railways:

• Bridgnorth Castle Hill Railway
• Central Tramway Scarborough (1970s)
• Constitution Hill Railway, Aberystwyth
• Lynton and Lynmouth Railway
• North Bay (now closed) (1970s)
• Scarborough South Cliff (1970s)
• Shipley Glen Tramway (1990s)
• St Nicholas Lift (now Closed) (1970s)

Railway and Tramway Centres

• Bideford Railway Heritage Centre (2019)
• Crewe Heritage Centre (2021)
• Cromford & High Peak Railway Museum High Peak Junction (2021)
• Dinting Railway Centre (closed)
• Glyn Valley Tramway Museum
• GWS Didcot
• National Railway Museum and previous York Railway Museum
• National Tramway Museum
• Steam GWR Museum
• Steamport Southport (closed)
• Steamtown Carnforth (closed)

Here's mine. Those with a star are where there is an operational railway but I've only visited the site, and not ridden on the train.

Alford Valley Railway
Aln Valley Railway *
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Avon Valley Railway
Audley End house railway near Stansted.
Babbacombe Cliff Railway
Beamish – The Living Museum of the North Chester le Street
Beer Height Railway - Pecorama, Beer.
Bere Ferrers - Heritage Centre
Beaulieu motor museum monorail
Bicton Park Railway *
Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society
Bideford Railway Centre.
Black Country Living Museum tramway.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway
Bodmin & Wenford Railway
Bowes Railway
Brecon Mountain Railway
Bristol Docks Railway
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Bure Valley Railway *
Colne Valley Railway
Cairn Gorm Funicular
Caledonian Railway
Cambrian Railway, (Oswestry).
Carnforth MPD
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
Chessington world of adventures monorail
Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
Cholsey and Wallingford Railway
Churnet Valley Railway
Colne Valley Railway *
Corris Railway *
Crich Tramway Village
Dartmoor Railway
Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company
Dean Forest Railway
Devon Railway Centre - Bickleigh
Didcot Railway Centre
East Anglian Railway Museum
East Kent Railway
East Lancashire Railway
East Somerset Railway
Eastleigh Lake Railway
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway *
Elsecar Heritage Railway *
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Epping Ongar Railway
Evesham Vale Light Railway
Exbury Gardens Steam Railway
Fairbourne Steam Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Foxfield Railway
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway
Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway *
Gartell Light Railway
Giant's Causeway tramway
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Great Central Railway, (Loughborough)
Great Orme Tramway
Gwili Steam Railway
Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum
Hollycombe collection railway
Hythe Pier Tramway
Invergarry Station
Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Keith & Dufftown Railway
Kempton Park pumping engines railway
Kent & East Sussex Railway *
Kew Bridge steam museum railway
Kerr's Miniature Railway, Arbroath
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway *
Launceston Steam Railway
Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway *
Midsomer Norton
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange
National Railway Museum
Nene Valley Railway *
North Norfolk Railway - (The Poppy Line)
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Northampton & Lamport Railway
Perrygrove Railway
Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum
Peak Rail
Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway
Purbeck mining museum.
Plym Valley Railway
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
Royal Deeside Railway
Royal Victoria Country Park railway Southampton.
Seaton Tramway
Severn Valley Railway
Shillingstone Railway Project
Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway
Snaefell Mountain Railway
Snowdon Mountain Railway
Somerset/Dorset Railway Heritage Trust
South Devon Railway
South Tynedale Railway *
Spa Valley Railway
Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen East
Stephenson Railway Museum
Strathspey Railway
Summerlee heritage museum Coatbridge tramway
Swanage Railway
Swindon and Cricklaide Railway
Scottish Industrial Railway Museum/Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group *
Talyllyn Railway
Tanfield Railway
Teifi Valley Railway
Telford Steam Railway
Threkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
The Bluebell Railway
The Lavender Line
Vale of Berkeley Railway
Vale of Rheidol Railway
Volks Electric Railway, Brighton
Weardale Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
Wensleydale Railway
West Somerset Railway
Wirral transport museum & heritage tramway
Welsh Highland Heritage Railway *
Yeovil Railway Centre

Barclay said:

Here's mine. Those with a star are where there is an operational railway but I've only visited the site, and not ridden on the train.

Alford Valley Railway
Aln Valley Railway *
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Avon Valley Railway
Audley End house railway near Stansted.
Babbacombe Cliff Railway
Beamish – The Living Museum of the North Chester le Street
Beer Height Railway - Pecorama, Beer.
Bere Ferrers - Heritage Centre
Beaulieu motor museum monorail
Bicton Park Railway *
Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society
Bideford Railway Centre.
Black Country Living Museum tramway.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway
Bodmin & Wenford Railway
Bowes Railway
Brecon Mountain Railway
Bristol Docks Railway
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Bure Valley Railway *
Colne Valley Railway
Cairn Gorm Funicular
Caledonian Railway
Cambrian Railway, (Oswestry).
Carnforth MPD
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
Chessington world of adventures monorail
Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
Cholsey and Wallingford Railway
Churnet Valley Railway
Colne Valley Railway *
Corris Railway *
Crich Tramway Village
Dartmoor Railway
Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company
Dean Forest Railway
Devon Railway Centre - Bickleigh
Didcot Railway Centre
East Anglian Railway Museum
East Kent Railway
East Lancashire Railway
East Somerset Railway
Eastleigh Lake Railway
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway *
Elsecar Heritage Railway *
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Epping Ongar Railway
Evesham Vale Light Railway
Exbury Gardens Steam Railway
Fairbourne Steam Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Foxfield Railway
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway
Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway *
Gartell Light Railway
Giant's Causeway tramway
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Great Central Railway, (Loughborough)
Great Orme Tramway
Gwili Steam Railway
Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum
Hollycombe collection railway
Hythe Pier Tramway
Invergarry Station
Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Keith & Dufftown Railway
Kempton Park pumping engines railway
Kent & East Sussex Railway *
Kew Bridge steam museum railway
Kerr's Miniature Railway, Arbroath
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway *
Launceston Steam Railway
Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway *
Midsomer Norton
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange
National Railway Museum
Nene Valley Railway *
North Norfolk Railway - (The Poppy Line)
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Northampton & Lamport Railway
Perrygrove Railway
Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum
Peak Rail
Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway
Purbeck mining museum.
Plym Valley Railway
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
Royal Deeside Railway
Royal Victoria Country Park railway Southampton.
Seaton Tramway
Severn Valley Railway
Shillingstone Railway Project
Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway
Snaefell Mountain Railway
Snowdon Mountain Railway
Somerset/Dorset Railway Heritage Trust
South Devon Railway
South Tynedale Railway *
Spa Valley Railway
Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen East
Stephenson Railway Museum
Strathspey Railway
Summerlee heritage museum Coatbridge tramway
Swanage Railway
Swindon and Cricklaide Railway
Scottish Industrial Railway Museum/Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group *
Talyllyn Railway
Tanfield Railway
Teifi Valley Railway
Telford Steam Railway
Threkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
The Bluebell Railway
The Lavender Line
Vale of Berkeley Railway
Vale of Rheidol Railway
Volks Electric Railway, Brighton
Weardale Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
Wensleydale Railway
West Somerset Railway
Wirral transport museum & heritage tramway
Welsh Highland Heritage Railway *
Yeovil Railway Centre

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That’s very impressive!

This where I’ve got to so far.

Standard gauge lines/museums etc



Bodmin and Wenford

Dartmoor Railway (as a preserved line)

Dartmouth Steam Railway

South Devon Railway

Bideford heritage centre

West Somerset Railway

East Somerset Railway (too young to remember it though)

Swanage Railway

Mid Hants Railway

Isle of Wight Railway

Spa Valley Railway

The Bluebell

Kent & East Sussex



Didcot Railway Centre

Quainton Road (too young to remember)

Gloucester and Warwickshire

The Severn Valley Railway

Chappel and Wakes Colne

Bressingham

The North Norfolk (too young to remember)

The Nene Valley (too young to remember)

The Great Central

The Great Central North

Midland Railway Centre

The Churnet Valley

Peak Rail

Ecclesbourne Valley

Crewe Heritage Centre

Dinting Railway Centre (now closed but I don’t remember it anyway as I was only tiny!)

The Cambrian Railway Oswestry

The Llangollen

The East Lancs

Keighley and Worth Valley

The NRM

North Yorkshire Moors



Narrow gauge, miniature railways, tramways etc



The Age of Steam, Crowlas - since closed

Lappa Valley

Carlyon Bay Railway - since closed

Dobwalls miniature railway - since closed

Launceston Steam Railway

Morwellham Quay mine railway

Trago Mills steam railway

Babbacombe Cliff Railway

Beer Heights

Cadbury Steam Railway

Devon Railway Centre

Paignton Zoo Railway

Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway

Butlins Minehead monorail

Bicton Garden Railway

Seaton Tramway

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch

Crich Tram museum

Alton Towers monorail

Great Orme Tramway

Vale of Rheidol

Talyllyn

Fairbourne (too young to remember)

Ffestiniog

Snowdon Mountain Railway

Welshpool and Llanfair



A few that I’ve visited but not travelled on or was closed at the time



Bere Ferrers station

Plym Valley

Lynton & Barnstaple

Midsomer Norton SDR

Bristol Docks Railway

Avon Valley

The Lavender Line

Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway

Llanberis Lake

Brechin Mountain Railway

Apologies, I copied and pasted it from my notes hence all of the spaces.

I’ll try and tidy it up later!

Off the top of my head I've visited:
Eden Valley Railway
Weardale Railway
Wensleydale Railway
Stainmore Railway Company
Tanfield Railway
North Tyneside Steam Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
Romney Hythe and Dymchurch
NYMR
KWVR
West Somerset
Wells and Walsingham
South Tynedale
Severn Valley Railway
Gloucestershire and Warwickshire
Beamish
Crich
Embsay and Bolton
Ravenglass and Eskdale.

Here goes (another edit - unless it has an x next to it I have only been once) :
Bickington Steam Railway - Trago Mills. X
Beer Height Railway - Pecorama X
Babbacombe Cliff Railway X
Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway X
Dartmouth Steam Railway X
Bure Valley Railway
Bodmin & Wenford Railway X
Helston Railway
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway X
Devon Railway Centre
Didcot Railway Centre X
East Lancashire Railway
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Yeovil Railway Centre
West Somerset Railway X
Wensleydale Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
Wells & Walsingham Light Railway
Swanage Railway
South Devon Railway X
Shipley Glen Tramway
Severn Valley Railway X
Seaton Tramway X
Plym Valley Railway X
Ravenglass & Eskdale
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
National Railway Museum X
Nene Valley Railway *will visit again soon
Mid Hants Railway - ‘Watercress Line’
Lynton & Lynmouth Cliff Railway
Locomotion’ - NRM Shildon
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway X
Lappa Valley Railway
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

*just quickly, have been to Black Country Museum but the tramway was shut. Lucky I didn't put WHHR, I got it mixed up with WHR nearly!

Its probably easier to list the ones I havent visited,
Plym Valley,
Lynton and Barnstable
Helston
Launceston
Teifi Valley
Whitrope
and
Babbacombe cliff railway

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shredder1 said:

Its probably easier to list the ones I havent visited,
Plym Valley,
Lynton and Barnstable
Helston
Launceston
Teifi Valley
Whitrope
and
Babbacombe cliff railway

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Other than that you've done them all? That's impressive...
A lot of them seem to be in devon and Cornwall where you haven't been
Like I said in an earlier post PVR is worth it if you are there for trains so to speak (you could also make a day out but not on its own it needs something else with it if you're not there for pure train)
Launceston I haven't done either and it seems interesting
Lynton and Barnstaple is good but relatively short and I would likely visit that and the cliff (again) together. Woody bay looks like it's been restored nicely. What you have to also consider when visiting a railway, galas and if so how good/appealing are they
Teifi Valley/Whitrope I haven't heard of.

Are we allowed to include foreign ones here?

• Buckower Kleinbahn
• Piaseczno and Grójec Narrow-gauge Railway
• Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij

StephenHunter said:

Are we allowed to include foreign ones here?

• Buckower Kleinbahn
• Piaseczno and Grójec Narrow-gauge Railway
• Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij

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A list of foreign ones would certainly suite me, Ive visited lots of them and always head for national railway museums in the countries I visit, I did Finlands last month
The Herz Mountain Railway is a classic one and of course Wolsztyn Poland, Hungary has the largest railway museum Ive been too in Budapest, Ive also visited the childrens railways in Budapest and Slovakia Kosice, Cierna Balog Forrest railway is an interesting one with 3 different lines, one that actually runs through a football field, Entrocamento Portugal is a great museum, they even have the last class 50, Mulhouse France is a large one, the museums Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark are much smaller but worth a visit, Slovakia has a large one at Bratislava, plus a smaller one at the side of the main railway station, Poland has a few Stacja, Chabowka, Jaworzyna and Warsaw in the old railway station, Prague has a large roundhouse museum out towards the airport, Riga has a great railway museum, Latvia and also Vilnius built into the main station, Lithuania, Ukraine, Kyiv next to the railway station, Bucharest Romania only has a small National Railway Museum next to |Nord railway station, but a few more exist in different parts of Romania, Im still finding new ones as I roam around Europe.

There's some big lists there! I could count on one hand the amount I've visited, I'd better get my finger out now lm retired and bought a reliable car.
Visited:
Gloucester Warwickshire
Severn Valley
Strathspey
Mid Hants
Chinnor and Princes Risborough
KWVR
NYMR( only as part of a railtour)
Fairbourne narrow gauge
Visited West Somerset but not travelled just used catering facilities at Minehead and Wellington.

I’ve Visited:
Kent & East Sussex Railway
East Kent Railway
Severn Valley Railway
Bluebell Railway
The Hastings Miniature Railway

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Aberystwyth Cliff Railway
Aln Valley Railway
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Beamish – The Living Museum of the North
Beaulieu motor museum monorail(?)
Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Bure Valley Railway
Colne Valley Railway
Chapel and Wakes Railway
Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway
Colne Valley Railway
Crich Tramway Village
Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company
Didcot Railway Centre
East Anglian Light Railway/East Anglian Transport Museum
East Anglian Railway Museum , Chapel and Wakes.
East Lancashire Railway
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
Epping Ongar Railway
Ffestiniog Railway
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway
Great Central Railway, (Loughborough)
Great Orme Tramway
Great Whipsnade Railway(?)
Gwili Steam Railway
Hastings East Hill Cliff Railway(?)
Hastings West Hill Cliff Railway(?)
Head of Steam - Darlington Railway Museum
Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway
Leighton Buzzard Railway
Locomotion
Mid Hants Railway - ‘Watercress Line’
National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange
National Railway Museum
Nene Valley Railway
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum
Peak Rail
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
Ruislip Lido railway
Saltburn Cliff Railway
A Scarborough cliff lift
Seaton Tramway
Severn Valley Railway
Shipley Glen Tramway
South Devon Railway
South Tynedale Railway
Southend Pier Railway(?)
Spa Valley Railway(?)
Stainmore Railway, Kirkby Stephen East
Stephenson Railway Museum
Summerlee heritage museum Coatbridge (visited here and Black Country Living Museum, but not when the trams were running)
Swanage Railway
Tanfield Railway
Threkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
The Bluebell Railway
The Post Office Museum -Mail Rail
Volks Electric Railway, Brighton(?)
Wakefield, National Coal Mining Museum
Weardale Railway
Welsh Highland Railway
West Somerset Railway(?)
Windsor, Legoland, Legoland Hill Train (formerly Windsor Safari Park Funicular)

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I can add on

Bala Lake Railway
Battlefield Line
Churnet Valley Railway
Douglas Bay Horse Tramway
Groudle Glen Railway
Isle of Man Railway
Llangollen Railway
Manx Electric Railway
Snaefell Mountain Railway

My latest ones come from my Irish trip last week when I visited

The Lartigue Monorail
The Waterford and Suir Valley Railway
The Cavan and Leitrim Railway