Category
Transport museums
Trams, buses, motorcars, locomotives — Britain's industrial transport heritage, from the National Railway Museum to local bus collections.
8 places in this category.
Transport museums by region
Highlights
★ Iconic📷 4Transport museums · Central Scotland
Riverside Museum
Zaha Hadid's transport museum on the Clyde — European Museum of the Year 2013.
All transport museums
📷 5Museums · South East England
Oxford Bus Museum
Oxford Bus Museum — transport museum in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
📷 5Museums · West Midlands
British Motor Museum
British Motor Museum — transport museum in Gaydon, United Kingdom.
📷 3Museums · West Midlands
Kidderminster Railway Museum
Kidderminster Railway Museum — museum in Kidderminster, England, United Kingdom.
📷 5Museums · North West England
British Commercial Vehicle Museum
British Commercial Vehicle Museum — automotive museum in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
📷 5Transport museums · North East England
Locomotion No. 1
Locomotion No. 1 (originally named Active) is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Step
📷 5Museums · Scottish Highlands
Grampian Transport Museum
Grampian Transport Museum — transport Museum in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
📷 3Museums · Central Scotland
Myreton Motor Museum
Myreton Motor Museum — transport museum in East Lothian, Scotland, UK.
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Frequently asked questions
- How many transport museums are in this guide?
- We currently list 8 transport museums across the United Kingdom — every entry sourced from Wikipedia, Wikidata or OpenStreetMap and validated against our schema.
- Are these places free to visit?
- Many places in the guide are free to enter — almost every national museum, every public park and garden, every parish church and cathedral. Castles, historic houses and theme parks usually charge admission; National Trust and English Heritage members visit those properties free.
- Where does the data come from?
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