Transport, Cars & Railway Museums in the UK
Set out below are Transport, cars & railway museums in the UK including Amberley Working Museum. Many of our Cars and transport museums house collections of national importance including hundreds of cars, motorcycles and cycles, land speed record cars and thousands of models. Railway museums display steam locomotives, many offering rides on original steam trains and offer an insight in what life was like to be a train driver back in the Golden Age.
Amberley Working Museum
Amberley, Arundel, West Sussex
Amberley Working Museum is a 36 acre open-air site dedicated to preserving the industrial heritage of the south-east. Exhibits include a narrow-gauge railway and vintage bus...
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Bath Postal Museum
27 Northgate Street, Bath, Bath & Northeast Somerset
We cover 4,000 years of communication from clay-mail to e-mail. This time-line also includes exhibitions in the Education Room on the Victorians, an essential ingredient in...
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Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum
Beamish, Chester-le-Street, Durham
Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, Britain´s favourite open-air museum, set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside, vividly recreates life in the North...
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Black Country Living Museum
Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands
Black Country Living Museum was established in 1975 to collect, preserve, research and display items relating to the social and industrial history of the Black Country....
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Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd
Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey
Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd is the birthplace of British motor sport and aviation, Brooklands was the centre of British motor sport from its first official race...
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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Quainton Road Station, Quainton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is one of the leading steam museums in the country, housing some 35 steam locomotives both diesel and multiple units. Slip back...
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Bygones Museum
Butlin Farm, Claydon, Banbury, Oxfordshire
Local Banbury shops, display centre. Victorian kitchen and work shops. Traction engine, steam roller, stationary engines, tractors etc. War and craft memorabilia, typewriters, sewing machines, jars,...
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Cars of The Stars Motor Museum
Standish Street, Keswick, Cumbria
Cars of The Stars Motor Museum opened in 1989. This world famous Museum features vehicles from television and film, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Batmobiles, Herbie,...
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Cotswold Motoring Museum & Toy Collection
The Old Mill, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
The Cotswold Motoring Museum & Toy Collection first opened in 1978, and is full of exciting memorabilia, sights and even smells, spanning the 20th century. The...
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Coventry Transport Museum, Millennium Place
Hales Street, Coventry, Warwickshire
Coventry Transport Museum is the birthplace of the British cycle and motor industries. The Museum displays the largest collection of British road transport in the world,...
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Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Brecon Road, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery was built in 1824, this Georgian castellated mansion was originally home to the Crawshay family and is set in 160...
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de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (inc the Mosquito Aircraft Museum)
PO Box 107, Salisbury Hall, London Colney, St Albans, Hertfordshire
de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (inc the Mosquito Aircraft Museum) is a secret wartime site waiting to be discovered by you. It is the home of...
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The Dock Museum
North Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
The Dock Museum is built over an original Victorian dry dock, this modern Museum tells the history of Barrow-in-Furness. Discover how it grew from a 19th...
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Donington Grand Prix Collection
Donington Park, Castle Donington, Derby, Derbyshire
Donington Grand Prix Collection is the world´s largest collection of Grand Prix racing cars with over 130 cars within five halls. The collection covers nearly 100...
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East Anglian Railway Museum
Chappel Station, Colchester, Essex
The East Anglian Railway Museum is home to a comprehensive collection of period railway architecture and engineering. Repair and restoration of the locomotives and rolling stock...
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Flambards Experience-Victorian Village & Gardens
Culdrose Manor, Helston, Cornwall
Flambards Experience-Victorian Village & Gardens, established nearly 30 years ago as the Cornwall Aircraft Park the Flambards Experience is one of the most popular days out...
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Fleet Air Arm Museum
RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovil, Somerset
The Fleet Air Arm Museum has the largest collection of Naval aircraft anywhere in Europe. Situated alongside an operational Naval Air Station you may see fighter...
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Grampian Transport Museum Trust
Alford, Aberdeenshire
The Grampian Transport Museum Trust was formed in 1978 by a group of local enthusiasts. The displays and working exhibits trace the history of road travel...
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Haynes Motor Museum
Sparkford, Somerset
Haynes Motor Museum is Britain´s biggest car collection with over 300 cars, 50 motorcycles, military and commerical vehicles, dating from 1886 to the present day. Also...
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The Helicopter Museum
The Heliport, Locking Moor Road, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset
Britain´s only helicopter museum is a fascinating place to visit with many rare and unique helicopters on display under cover. It is Weston-super-Mare´s largest undercover all...
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Heritage Motor Centre
Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwick, Warwickshire
The Heritage Motor Centre is home to the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, which maintains the largest collection in the world of classic, vintage and veteran...
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Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust
Jaguar Cars Limited, Browns Lane, Allesley, Coventry, Warwickshire
Established in 1983, the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust maintains a unique collection of motor vehicles and artefacts manufactured by Jaguar Cars Limited. A selection of the...
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Lakeland Motor Museum
Holker Hall and Gardens, Cark-in-Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria
Lakeland Motor Museum houses over 30,000 motoring related exhibits that include cars, motorcycles and engines, plus one of the largest collections of automobilia including badges, mascots,...
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Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon
Locomotion, Shildon, Durham
Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon is an £11 million project, opened in 2004, and the first national museum to be built in the North...
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London´s Transport Museum
39 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London
London´s Transport Museum is located in the heart of London´s Covent Garden, housed in the original Victorian Flower Market. Offering a unique perspective of the histroic...
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Marlipins Museum
High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
Marlipins Museum, once a Customs House, now holds artefacts from the long history of the Shoreham area and the maritime past plus a collection of local...
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Milestones
Leisure Park, Churchill Way West, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Milestones, winner of the Social and Industrial History Award under the National Heritage Museum of the Year scheme. Atmospheric street scenes with shops from the late...
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Monkwearmouth Station Museum
North Bridge Street, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
The Monkwearmouth Station Museum is now closed for an extensive restoration and redevelopment programme. When it re-opens in late summer 2007, visitors will be able to...
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Museum of Army Flying
Middle Wallop, Stockbridge, Hampshire
The Museum of Army Flying: Flying Soldiers! The heroic story of the army in the air from 19th century observation balloons to attack helicopters! The Museum...
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Museum of Flight
East Fortune Airfield, East Fortune, East Lothian
The Museum of Flight is home to Scotland´s national aviation collection and one of the most famous sites in world aviation history. Discover some of the...
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Museum of Hartlepool
Jackson Dock, Maritime Avenue, Hartlepool, Teesside
The Museum of Hartlepool tells the story of Hartlepool from prehistoric times to the present day using many original artefacts, photographs and models. Fascinating archaeological finds...
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Museum of Science and Industry
Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Museum of Science and Industry: Uncover Manchester´s industrial past and learn about the fascinating stories of the people who contributed to the history and science of...
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Museum of Transport - Greater Manchester
Boyle Street, Cheetham, Manchester, Greater Manchester
Museum of Transport - Greater Manchester is one of the largest and varied collections with over 85 vehicles, mainly buses, relating to over a century of...
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Museum of Transport
1 Bunhouse Road, Glasgow, Glasgow City
The Museum of Transport is the history of transport by land and sea told through the collections with a Glasgow focus. On display is the oldest...
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National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Discovery Quay, Falmouth, Cornwall
Located on the edge of Falmouth´s stunning harbour, The National Maritime Museum Cornwall is a hands-on, 21st century, new generation of visitor attraction that will appeal...
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National Motor Museum Beaulieu
John Montagu Building, Beaulieu, Hampshire
This world renowned National Motor Museum collection was started in 1952 and now features 250 vehicles which tell the story of motoring from 1895 to the...
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National Motorcycle Museum
Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands
The National Motorcycle Museum is the largest motorcycle museum in the world, housing a breathtaking collection of over 700 British motorcycles dating from 1898, each painstakingly...
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National Railway Museum
Leeman Road, York, North Yorkshire
The National Railway Museum, is the world´s largest railway museum encompassing a wide range of railway icons and millions of artefacts. Home to over 100 engines...
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Newark Air Museum
The Airfield, Winthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire
The Newark Air Museum is open every day (except Christmas and New Year) with half the aircraft and cockpit sections displayed under cover, along with artefact...
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Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum: East Anglia´s Aviation Heritage Centre
Buckeroo Way, The Street, Flixton, Bungay, Suffolk
Historic aircraft, indoor exhibitions - both civil and military, from the pioneer years through World War I to the present day. Special displays on Boulton &...
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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire
The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford houses one of the largest aviation collections in the UK with 70 historic aircraft on display in three wartime hangars...
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Royal Air Force Museum London
Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London
Take off to the Royal Air Force Museum and soar through the history of aviation from the earliest balloon flights to the Eurofighter. Gaze at a...
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Shuttleworth Collection
Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
The Shuttleworth Collection is in a quiet countryside setting on an old fashioned all grass aerodrome with eight hangars. These hangars comprise an aeroplane engineering workshop,...
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The Silk Mill, Derby´s Museum of Industry and History
The Silk Mill, Silk Mill Lane, off Full Street, Derby, Derbyshire
The Silk Mill Museum is on the site of one of Britain´s oldest factories. Displays feature local industries, such as mining, pottery, railway engineering and Rolls...
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Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Building
The Airfield, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent
The Memorial Building houses wartime Spitfire & Hurricane fighter aircraft together with an ever expanding display of original and emotive memorabilia from the 1939-1945 war periods....
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STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway
Kemble Drive, Swindon, Wiltshire
STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway is located in a beautifully restored railway building where seven generations of men and women built the great...
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Stephenson Railway Museum
Middle Engine Lane, North Shields, Tyne & Wear
Stephenson Railway Museum, relive the glorious days of the steam railway at the Museum, home to George Stephenson´s 1826 `Billy´, a forerunner of the world-famous Rocket...
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Streetlife Museum
High Street, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Streetlife Museum brings 200 years of transport history alive, with all the sights, sounds and smells of the past. The stunning displays include collections of trams,...
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Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria
Old Tullie House is a 17th century town house of character, with a fine classical faade. Inside are are some early features including a Jacobean staircase...
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