This museum whilst labelled a Railway Museum seeks to record and demonstrate the Ironstone Railways and Mines typically found across the Midlands.
It is based near Cottesmore in Rutland on the the end of a former Midland Railway Branch built to serve the Cottesmore and Exton Quarries. The loading dock for filling the wagons still stands and a there are several locomotives, wagons and relics on site of the railways/quarries. There is an engine shed, and various other displays, with demonstrations of loading trains etc / working practices carried out on steaming/open days.
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