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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railways 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 industrial 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, 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, 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, Diss, Norfolk * East Anglian Railway Museum, Chappel & Wakes Colne Station, Essex * Mangapps Railway Museum, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex * Railworld Wildlife Haven, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire * Whitwell & Reepham Railway, Reepham, Norfolk

Narrow gauge

* Bressingham Steam and Gardens, Diss, Norfolk * Great Whipsnade Railway,

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, Bedfordshire * Southend Pier Railway, Southend-on-Sea, Essex * Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, Essex * Yaxham Light Railway, Norfolk – ''private site''

Miniature gauge

* Audley End Railway, Essex * Bure Valley Railway, 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, 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, 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, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire * Peak Rail, 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 * Nottingham Heritage Railway, 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, 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,

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, Marley Hill, County Durham * Weardale Railway, 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, Sledmere–Fimber, East Yorkshire

Railway centres and museums

* Beamish Museum & Railway Centre, County Durham * Carnforth Railway Centre, Carnforth, Lancashire * Crewe Heritage Centre, Crewe, Cheshire * Head of Steam, Darlington, County Durham * Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Cumbria * Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley, West Yorkshire *

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

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, Cheshire * Lakeside Miniature Railway,

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 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, 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, 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 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, 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, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight * Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway, Tenterden, Kent * Lavender Line, 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 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, Kew Bridge, Brentford, London * Mail Rail, short section of the former London Post Office Railway opened to public since 2017 * Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, 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 *

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, 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 *

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

Defunct

* Ashford Steam Centre, 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, 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 * Creekmoor Light Railway, Poole, Dorset – closed in 1973 * 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 * 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 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, Milton of Crathes, Aberdeenshire

Scottish Borders

* Waverley Route Heritage Association, 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, Inverness * Vogrie Park Miniature Railway, Gorebridge, nr Edinburgh * Strathaven Miniature Railway , Strathaven , South Lanarkshire

Tramways

* Summerlee Heritage Park, 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, 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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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 ...

WHR Garratt in the countryside.jpg, The

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, Douglas * Great Laxey Mine Railway, Laxey * Groudle Glen Railway, Lhen Coan * Isle of Man Railway, Douglas * Manx Electric Railway, Derby Castle * Snaefell Mountain Railway, Laxey * 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, Douglas 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,

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 ...

Stanley Stanley may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film * ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy * ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short * ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series) ...

(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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British heritage and private railways 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