UK & Ireland Heritage Railways for steam trains and tramways

3: Beyer Peacock NGG16 Garratt No 87 taking water on Welsh Highland Railway. Photo by Malcolm Brown

43: Freight train at Chatham Historic Dockyard. Photo by Tony Page

14: Visitors admire City of Truro at Swindon & Cricklade Railway

18: Freight on the Tanfield Railway. Photo supplied by Graham and Fiona Wilkinson

15: Passenger train on the Talyllyn Railway

An independent guide to the entire heritage railway scene (including tramways and preserved steam trains) in the UK and Ireland. Whether you are a knowledgeable railway enthusiast or someone with a more casual interest looking for somewhere to visit, I hope you will find this website useful.

Featuring:

170 heritage railway and tramway attractions listed by name or map location.
Events Diary showing events for all heritage railways for the next 2 to 3 months.
Websites Database with over 750 entries.
Locomotives Database with nearly 3,000 entries, including over 1,300 photographs.
Railway Glossary with over 950 entries.

Details of all the latest updates to the website are available in the Webmasters Blog.

If you are looking for the Heritage Railway Association website, you will find it at http://www.heritagerailways.com/