Exhibits shunted into our new museum

The new museum building at Aberystwyth station is ready to open to the public on March 23rd 2024.

A day of shunting took place on Tuesday 19th March, as locomotives and rolling stock were carefully positioned inside the building. The museum was originally built in 1938 as a locomotive shed (firstly for the standard gauge railway, and then for the VoR from 1968 onwards), and has now been repurposed as a multi-purpose museum and flexible events space.

The museum opens to the public for the first time on Saturday 23rd March 2024.

Exhibits from across the world will be put on display, including some for the very first time. This will include rolling stock from our collection (saved by the late Peter Rampton), as well as engines on loan from other railways.

This includes 1848-built ‘Fire Queen’ (one of the oldest narrow gauge locomotives in the world), as well as standard gauge Dukedog No.9017 (on loan from the Bluebell Railway, and back in Aberystwyth for the first time in over sixty years). Also on display will be ‘Palmerston’, visiting from the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways.

Entry to the museum will be free to those who travel on the train, with a small charge for those visiting the museum only. Both the railway and the museum open to the public on March 23rd, and are then open daily until November 3rd.

First admission to the museum is at 09.00 each day, with last admission at 16.15 on ‘orange’ timetable days.