At Ribble Steam Railway, we’re very proud to host the Furness Railway Trust, their workshops and, at present, their prized possession – Britain’s oldest working steam locomotive, Furness Railway No.20….
#NEWS! – Our friends at Furness Railway Trust have some amazing news – They’ve been able to acquire No.25, sister engine to Ribble-based Furness No.20, Britain’s oldest working steam engine! The trust…
You may have seen Mr. Ribble around the railway. He will soon be joined by Mrs. Ribble, (who has been in hiding), and the two more recently created “Ribble Railway…
60th Anniversary of closure: Whittingham Hospital Railway The Whittingham Hospital Railway (W.H.R.) was a private light railway operated by Lancashire County Council to serve Whittingham lunatic asylum. Opened in 1889,…
Find out more about Signalling on our railways via several Museum Exhibits: A NEW Museum display explores how me made our railways safer to travellers.
Ribble Steam Railway has recently purchased and restored a Travelling Post Office coach. It will become a great addition to our museum and enable us to add to our educational curriculum…
“The best thing we ever did!” The Ribble Steam Railway is home to arguably the finest collection of industrial locomotives in the UK, as well as being the only preserved…
The small band of people who got together in 1971 to establish a transport museum in the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway locomotive shed at Derby Road, Southport must surely…
In 1897 Dick, Kerr & Company bought a disused factory in Preston and commenced the manufacture of trams and electric locomotives and in June 1905 this works became known as…
The prototype Deltic arrived at RSR on 9th August 2012 and was on public view in the museum until October 2015. She was kindly loaned by the NRM. The loco…
