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The Amberley Museum Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway based at Amberley Museum, Amberley, West Sussex. It has a varied collection of engines and rolling stock ranging from 18 in (457 mm) gauge to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge. It operates passenger trains at the museum using a mixture of steam, internal combustion and battery ...
This list of museums in West Sussex, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Amberley Museum Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway and railway exhibition hall devoted to British industrial narrow-gauge railways. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] There are 45 locomotives , with 5 being steam powered, 29 internal combustion and 4 battery electric, and around 80 items of rolling stock , chiefly goods wagons , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ...
Amberley railway station is a railway station in West Sussex, England. It serves the village of Amberley , about half a mile away, and was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway . The Amberley Working Museum – a museum of industry – is accessed from the former station goods yard.
The boiler was returned to Amberley in January 2012. Polar Bear was relaunched on 13 July 2013 by BBC newsreader and railway enthusiast Nicholas Owen. [1] Polar Bear made its fourth visit to the Groudle Glen Railway since it was preserved in late July 2016. After its two week stay there, it returned home to Amberley museum.
The railway's second locomotive. Preserved in 1967 at the Brockham Railway Museum, and now in service at the Amberley Museum Railway. Brown Bear (constructed 2019) a new-build locomotive project started in 2013. Replica of Polar Bear (1905). Construction was completed in July 2019 at Old Hall Farm, Cumbria and shipped to the railway the same month.
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
The Brockham Railway Museum was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway based at the site of the Brockham Limeworks, near Dorking, Surrey. When it closed in 1982, the majority of the collection was moved to the Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre where it formed the nucleus of the Amberley Museum Railway .