2024 Heritage Diesel Days
Take unlimited rides behind historic Diesel Locomotives or in our GWR Diesel Railcar (subject to availability) and see many steam locomotives in the original GWR Engine Shed and around the Centre. There's also a chance to explore the spacious undercover areas of the Carriage Display and Victorian Broad Gauge Exhibition.
Diesel Locomotives will be operating on at least one of the Centre's two demonstration lines, allowing you to take unlimited rides. Check our Locomotive Roster to see what we expect to be running on the date of your visit.
Pick up our colourful Centre Guide, explore this 21-acre living museum and unearth almost two centuries of railway history. Visitors will also have the chance to get up close to the locomotives in the spacious Engine Shed which has remained largely-unchanged since it was built in 1932. See the magnificent preserved locomotives and follow the one-way system that allows you to climb onto the footplate!
The large, well-ventilated carriage shed will also be open with coaches dating from Victorian times to the 1940s that evoke bygone eras. See the VIP Saloon reputed to have been used by General Eisenhower during the preparations for D-Day and later used in the GWR Royal Train!
A leisurely stroll will take you to a beautifully recreated 1930s branch line station and to a rare section of surviving track from Brunel's Broad Gauge railway, complete with replica Victorian locomotives.
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Take unlimited rides behind historic Diesel Locomotives or in our GWR Diesel Railcar (subject to availability) and see many steam locomotives in the original GWR Engine Shed and around the Centre. There's also a chance to explore the spacious undercover areas of the Carriage Display and Victorian Broad Gauge Exhibition.
Diesel Locomotives will be operating on at least one of the Centre's two demonstration lines, allowing you to take unlimited rides. Check our Locomotive Roster to see what we expect to be running on the date of your visit.
Pick up our colourful Centre Guide, explore this 21-acre living museum and unearth almost two centuries of railway history. Visitors will also have the chance to get up close to the locomotives in the spacious Engine Shed which has remained largely-unchanged since it was built in 1932. See the magnificent preserved locomotives and follow the one-way system that allows you to climb onto the footplate!
The large, well-ventilated carriage shed will also be open with coaches dating from Victorian times to the 1940s that evoke bygone eras. See the VIP Saloon reputed to have been used by General Eisenhower during the preparations for D-Day and later used in the GWR Royal Train!
A leisurely stroll will take you to a beautifully recreated 1930s branch line station and to a rare section of surviving track from Brunel's Broad Gauge railway, complete with replica Victorian locomotives.
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