Complete list of Britain`s Preserved Railways

Another couple. Stansted Park light railway & Stapleford Park railway

Lakeside Miniature Railway Southport?
Does that still exist?

Not sure if its been mentioned before- Perrygrove railway

Here are some more from Scotland:
Kerr's Miniature Railway, Arbroath
Invergarry Station
Saughtree Station
Scottish Industrial Railway Museum/Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group
National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange
Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum
Craigiemains Garden Centre, Ballantrae


BTW Aviemore Mountain Railway and Cairngorm Funicular are one and the same

I think some definitions would be good (or possibly state which railways fall under which heading, e.g. preserved, new-build, etc).

I'm wondering what date the Snowdon Mountain Railway became a preserved railway, or is it in the category of new-build? When is new-build no longer new but old? Snowdon Mountain Railway is still, as far as I am aware, fulfilling its original function. My local railway line along the south coast was built in 1849 and still performing its original function. Some original station buildings are preserved, others are preserved from later eras but they have updated the rolling stock. Makes me wonder what railways fit into which definitions!

Great stuff guys, many thanks for the input, just updated.

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

Ruswarp Miniature Railway.
Shibden Miniature Railway

Is it worth me mentioning the Goffs Park Light Railway in Crawley?

http://www.crawleymodelengineers.org.uk

Cheers

Ben

Shred - Your next trick should be to work out the route miles of all the different gauges, work out the total distances and see how far we’d get if you laid it all out in a straight line.




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Crawley Ben said:

Is it worth me mentioning the Goffs Park Light Railway in Crawley?

http://www.crawleymodelengineers.org.uk

Cheers

Ben

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Christ if we go down the route of every model engineering society railway we could be looking at another 100 or so!

Out of interest has anyone been to nearly all of the ever lengthening list? I must admit I've done well over half!

thejuggler said:

Ruswarp Miniature Railway.
Shibden Miniature Railway

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Damn forgot about the Whitby one- the Sibden is a new one on me. Great shout.

If miniature railways are being included....

Crowborough
http://crowboroughminiaturerailway.com/

Polegate
http://www.padmec.org.uk/

Haywards Heath
https://www.beechhurst-railway.org.uk/welcome.htm

Eastbourne
http://www.emsr.co.uk/

I'm not sure you'll ever stop!

Mustn't forget Sir Bill McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway. (Technically and slightly awkwardly named the Fawley Museum Society Ltd). It's a full 4'8 1/2 inch gauge and a couple of miles long with the steepest bank of any "normal" railway in the UK (and possibly Europe) at 1 in 14 increasing to 1 in 13 for a short distance.

Cowley said:

Shred - Your next trick should be to work out the route miles of all the different gauges, work out the total distances and see how far we’d get if you laid it all out in a straight line.



If you’re not too busy that is...

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Haha, I think I`ve given up with it now

Chilton Garden Centre - Mortocombe Railway

https://www.bglr.org/category/mortocombe-railway/

There is a few more listed on this site on the left

reddragon said:

Chilton Garden Centre - Mortocombe Railway

https://www.bglr.org/category/mortocombe-railway/

There is a few more listed on this site on the left

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OK thanks, I`ll add them later

Curveball time! What about the Rowtor Target Railway in Dartmoor? Not technically a heritage railway, but its track and Wickham Trolley remain in situ and are maintained by volunteers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowtor_Target_Railway

mushroomchow said:

Curveball time! What about the Rowtor Target Railway in Dartmoor? Not technically a heritage railway, but its track and Wickham Trolley remain in situ and are maintained by volunteers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowtor_Target_Railway

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You wouldn’t catch me riding that while wearing a jumper with a picture of a tank on it! (a tank top?)

Tanks for that....

Right on target

I wonder what you’d have to shell out to get it running again?

I found this one today: Lea Bailey Light Railway
A former mine in the Forest of Dean. They use compressed air to power their locos and rail-based mechanical digger

http://www.lblr.fod.uk/

Trackbedjolly said:

I found this one today: Lea Bailey Light Railway
A former mine in the Forest of Dean. They use compressed air to power their locos and rail-based mechanical digger

http://www.lblr.fod.uk/

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Thats looks interesting thanks for sharing

Trackbedjolly said:

I found this one today: Lea Bailey Light Railway
A former mine in the Forest of Dean. They use compressed air to power their locos and rail-based mechanical digger

http://www.lblr.fod.uk/

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Never realised about that one. Need to tick off compressed air haulage!

Just a minor change. I see you have Downpatrick & County Down Railway preservation society of Ireland. It should just read Downpatrick & County Down Railway. The RPSI operate mainland steam trips and aren't a preserved line as such, though their Whitehead Railway Museum does offer trips up and down their yard.

PFX said:

Just a minor change. I see you have Downpatrick & County Down Railway preservation society of Ireland. It should just read Downpatrick & County Down Railway. The RPSI operate mainland steam trips and aren't a preserved line as such, though their Whitehead Railway Museum does offer trips up and down their yard.

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Oh OK thank you for that, appreciated

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Never realised about that one. Need to tick off compressed air haulage!

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Reminds me of the sadly now gone Atmospheric Railway museum in the old pumping house at Starcross. They had about five metres of demonstration track inside with two Hoovers connected to a pipe on the track.
So I can genuinely say I’ve had vacuum cleaner haulage.

I've had a few hoovers for haulage too