Stephenson Railway Museum

Re-live the glorious days of steam and enjoy several of George Stephenson's legendary engines.

Steam train rides

Interactive Displays

Children's Activities

FREE ENTRY (charge for rides)

Monkwearmouth Station Museum

Scheduled to re-open in 2007 following extensive restoration and redevelopment.

Children's Gallery

Platform Gallery

Dedicated educational spaces

New displays and activities

Beamish Open Air Museum

See where the past comes to life at this unique, living working museum. Experience what it was like to live in the early 19th and 20th centuries and find out how important the railways were to everyday life.

Walk the platforms and station buildings

Ride the locomotives

The Town

Home Farm

Colliery Village

Trams and transport

Pockerley Waggonway

Darlington Railway Centre & Museum

Explore how the railway era began at the original Stockton and Darlington Railway station.

Stephenson's original Locomotion No1

Derwent, Blue Peter and other fantastic trains and carriages

Children's activities

Railway Study Centre

Weardale Railway

An exciting new venture to recreate the experience of train travel. Re-live the atmosphere through real railway relics.

A real branch-line experience

Station and goods yard

Station restoration

Operating steam trains

OPENS JULY 2004

Tanfield Railway

Ride the World's oldest railway, operating since 1725.

Over 40 locos

Victorian carriages

Vintage workshops

3 miles of track

Operating steam trains

Britain's oldest engine shed

FREE ENTRY (pay for trains)

Museum of Hartlepool

Home of Hartlepools incredible past. Fascinating firsts. Ingenious inventions. Wondrous wildlife. Experience the crossroads between rail and sail.

Award winning museum

Sea monsters

Fishing boats

Paddle Steamer

Celtic Round House

Gas lighthouse

Interactive displays

FREE ENTRY

Kirkleatham Museum

Experience how the rich and poor lived in the past in the Redcar and Cleveland area. Get an insight into how the seaside resort of Saltburn became a Victorian Spa town because of the railways.

Displays and exhibitions

World War Two memorabilia

Lifeboat

Owl Centre

Picnic and Playground

FREE ENTRY

Locomotion - The National Railway Museum at Shildon
Lose yourself in this brand new world of trains.Wander through the adjoining workshops, once home to the pioneers of the railway.

Over sixty vehicles from the National Collection on display.

See the original Sans Pariel

Interactive displays exploring railway history

Steam train rides available on some events

FREE ENTRY

Preston Hall Museum

A great opportunity to explore the domestic life of the 19th and 20th centuries. Stroll down the period streets and experience life at the height of the era of steam.

100 acres of parkland

Victorian Street

Museum and memorabilia

Displays and exhibitions

Butterfly World

Aviary and animal enclosure