Lancashire Mining Museum 2025

The last surviving headgear and winding engine in the Lancashire coalfield. Coal mining and steam power exhibits and narrow gauge railway.

Contacts

Operator: The Red Rose Steam Society Ltd

Address: Higher Green Lane Astley Green Tyldesley Greater Manchester M29 7JB

Telephone: 01942 895 841
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Website: View website

Open Days & Times

Tue, Thu, Sat-Sun 1300-1600. Visit website for more details.

Travel

By Bus: 654
By Rail: Walkden / 5 miles

Facilities

Parking
Part disabled access

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The museum occupies some fifteen acres of the Astley Green Colliery site. To the south lies the Bridgewater Canal and Astley Moss, an important mossland site. The low-lying landscape ensures that the museum’s 98ft high lattice steel headgear can be seen for many miles, a fitting memorial to days now past.

Apart from the steam winding engine and headgear the museum houses many exhibits, not least of which is the collection of 28 colliery locomotives, the largest collection of its type in the United Kingdom.