Due to the current Corona virus outbreak, many attractions are delaying their 2020 season opening times and event organisers are cancelling or postponing their events.
While we will try to update the information on this site as much as possible, we cannot guarantee to have all the information we would like.
Therefore we urge you to check the latest information on the attraction or event's website or Facebook pages, and to contact them before travelling to avoid disappointment.
Crofton Pumping Station,
Crofton,
Marlborough,
Wiltshire,
SN8 3DW.
Tel: 01672 870 300.
The oldest working beam engine in the world, an 1812 Boulton & Watt, and an 1846 Harveys of Hayle, pump water to the summit level of the Kennet & Avon…
Uffculme,
Cullompton,
Devon,
EX15 3EE.
Tel: 01884 840 960.
Former textile mill opened as a working museum. Tour the working levels and view the 1910 Lancashire boiler, 1910 300hp Pollit & Wigzell steam engine,…
Hoopers Lane,
Westonzoyland,
Nr Bridgwater,
Somerset,
TA7 0LS.
Tel: 01278 691 595.
Grade II* Listed building (c1830) houses award winning 1861 Easton Amos steam land drainage machine. 1938 Marshall portable boiler used for raising steam.…
Gillians Lane,
Barnoldswick,
Lancashire,
BB18 5QR.
Tel: 07707 670 177.
The original 1920 mill steam engine was the 13th and last mill built in Barnoldswick, and is preserved in operating condition with working cotton weaving…
Green Dragon Lane,
Brentford,
Greater London,
TW8 0EN.
Tel: 020 8568 4757.
It houses some of the world’s rarest working steam engines still in their original location and tells the incredible story of how the Victorians cleaned…
Broomy Hill,
Hereford,
Herefordshire,
HR4 0LJ.
Tel: 01432 361 147.
Classified by English Heritage as "a site of clear national importance", the museum is home to the oldest working triple expansion steam engine in the…
Hazeley Road,
Twyford,
Winchester,
Hampshire,
SO21 1QA.
Tel: 01962 714 716.
Discover the story of water extraction, softening and supply over the last 100 years at this Scheduled Ancient Monument located close to Winchester in…
Lodge Park,
Straffan,
Co. Kildare,
IRELAND.
Tel: 00 353 1 628 8412.
The Power Hall displays six large 19th century stationary engines running in steam on occasions. Demonstrations are included of steam powered electric…
Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, Co. Durham, DL3 8TF.
Illustrates the history of water supply, featuring a Teesdale compound rotative beam engine and Hornsby gas engine preserved in a waterworks dating from…
Lee Road, Cork, Co. Cork, IRELAND.
Located at the old Cork City Waterworks which was responsible for supplying water to the city of Cork over the past 300 years. The Waterworks is the best…
Henderson Road,
Eastney,
Portsmouth,
Hampshire,
PO4 9JF.
Tel: 023 9283 4779.
An impressive Victorian building containing a pair of classic Boulton & Watt beam engines and pumps restored to their original 1887 condition. Not in steam…
Mornington Road,
off Chorley Old Road,
Bolton,
Greater Manchester,
BL1 4EU.
Tel: 01204 846 490.
The museum is on the old Atlas Mills site in Bolton and displays around 30 stationary steam engines that used to provide power in the textile mills of…
Corporation Road,
Leicester,
Leicestershire,
LE4 5PX.
Tel: 0116 299 5111.
Former Victorian sewage pumping station built in 1890 with four working steam powered beam engines. The museum houses a large science, industry and transport…
Harle Syke,
Burnley,
Lancashire,
BB10 2HX.
Tel: 01282 412 555.
The last surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill – relive the days when cotton was king and see the magnificent steam engine 'Peace' which…
Waterworks Road,
Ryhope,
Sunderland,
Tyne & Wear,
SR2 0ND.
Tel: 0191 521 0235.
Illustrates aspects of water pumping. The two original Hawthorn beam engines of 1868, designed by Thomas Hawksley, have been restored and are steamed at…
Rigg Lane,
Ravenshead,
Nottinghamshire,
NG15 9AJ.
Tel: 0115 963 2938.
Britain’s finest Victorian fresh water pumping station. Two James Watt beam engines with Lancashire boilers. Robey winding engine from Linby Colliery,…
Hatfield Road,
Langford,
Nr Maldon,
Essex,
CM9 6QA.
Tel: 01621 843 183.
Housed in a former water pumping station, the museum contains a fascinating collection which ranges from a working overhead machine shop to a petrol powered…
Port Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 3PE.
See Burleigh ware produced over the years in the beautiful showroom, explore the original Victorian offices, and learn about the people and events which…
Longlands Lane,
Brodsworth,
Nr Doncaster,
Yorkshire,
DN5 7XB.
Tel: 01302 330 430.
An impressive collection of restored stationary steam engines. In total around 18 steam engines & pumps are on display, the majority of which can be run…
Cotes Heath,
Nr Eccleshall,
Staffordshire,
ST21 6QU.
Tel: 01785 822 138.
A former water pumping station with two horizontal tandem compound steam engines, Lancashire boilers, Weir pumps and well head gear. Only static viewing…
Markfield Road,
South Tottenham,
London,
Greater London,
N15 4RB.
Tel: 01707 873 628.
Located in the remains of the Tottenham Sewage Works which now forms part of Markfield Park. The principal exhibit is the Victorian beam pumping engine…
Kempton Park Water Treatment Works,
Snakey Lane,
Hanworth,
Middlesex,
TW13 7ND.
Tel: 01932 765 328.
Home to the world's largest triple-expansion steam pumping engine. Housed in a magnificent 1927 Art Deco building preserved as a steam heritage site, the…
The Green, Stradbally, Portlaoise, Co. Laois, IRELAND.
Houses many steam, fire and farm engines in the museum. These incluse a Land-Rover fire engine which was stationed at Stradbally fire station in approximately…
High Peak Junction,
Cromford,
Derbyshire,
DE4 5HW.
Tel: 01629 533 298.
Unique 1849 Graham & Co. beam engine pumps water from the River Derwent into the Cromford Canal. Steam supplied by two locomotive style boilers built by…
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