Museums and Preserved Lines | |
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Pendon Museum | The one and only; A place I must go on my next trip to England |
Severn Valley Railway | One of the larger preserved railways |
North Yorkshire Moors Railway | Steam, moors, hiking, a castle: what more can one ask for ? |
Bluebell Railway | Southern steam |
Bodmin and Wenford Railway | A “typical” GWR branch line |
South Devon Railway | |
Didcot Railway Centre | |
National Railway Museum | One of the best Railway Museums Anywhere (though currently undergoing restoration, so may be a little reduced in available size) |
STEAM Museum of the GWR | in Swindon |
The Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway | Rushdon near Wellingorough, only open a limited number of days |
Irchester Narrow Gauge Museum | Irchester near Wellingborough, only open a limited number of days |
Avon Valley Railway | near Bristol |
Peak Rail | in Matlock |
Midland Railway Centre | NW of Nottingham in Butterley |
Nene Valley Railway | near Peterborough |
Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway | at the south end of Windermere (the lake not the town) |
Prototype Information | |
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The Signal Box | |
Railway Photography by Phil Trotter | A lot of useful links, and some photo collections. |
Phantasrail | Was a very nice site with hundreds (if not thousands) of photos. Doesn’t seem to exist any more. |
BRMNA web site | Even though it’s a modellers club site, it has useful lists of magazine articles about prototypes and modelling methods. |
Martyn Bane’s (old) Site | Picture galleries and articles about steam, including about Pecket and Sons. No longer maintained. |
Steam Locomotive dot com | Has an impressive list of all the existing steam locomotives. |
Signalling Record Society | Society for and about British railway signalling. |
British Railway BooksBritish Railway Books | Online source of books |
LMS and Midland | |
The LMS Society | |
The Midland Railway Society | |
London and North West Society | |
Midland Record | |
LMS Journal | The pages for LMS Journal seem to have disappeared, very annoying. So here’s an index instead. |
L.M.S. History – 1935 | |
MR steam locomotives | A list of many MR (and early LMS) locomotive types |
LMS and Midland Railway | |
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The LMS Society | |
The Midland Railway Society | |
The London and North Western Railway Society | |
Midland Record | |
LMS Journal Index | Most of the LMS Journal and the Midland Record can be obtained here |
L.M.S. History – 1935 |