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[[The Engine House | The Engine House Visitor Centre at Highley]]<br> | [[The Engine House | The Engine House Visitor Centre at Highley]]<br> | ||
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[http://www.krm.org.uk/ Kidderminster Railway Museum web site] | [http://www.krm.org.uk/ Kidderminster Railway Museum web site] | ||
Revision as of 16:37, 29 November 2016
Although it works closely with the SVRSevern Valley Railway, Kidderminster Railway Museum is run by an independent organisation formed by a group of SVRSevern Valley Railway members in 1989. The Museum, which opened the following year, is housed in the 1878 constructed two-storey former GWRGreat Western Railway grain and wool warehouse adjoining Kidderminster station.
Organisation
The museum is operated by The Kidderminster Railway Museum Trust Limited, a private company limited by guarantee, Company number 02033064.[1]
The Trust is a registered charity, No 518479. The Charity Commission records the Trust’s objectives as being “An independent museum established for the collection and conservation of relics and documents depicting the railways of the British Isles, and subsequently making them available to all those who wish to access them”.[2]
Collection
The museum has on display an extensive collection of smaller historical railway items such as totem board, signalling equipment and locomotive name and number plates. The Museum also houses the former Midland Railway booking office from Alvechurch. Working ‘hands on’ exhibits include a telephone exchange and signal frame.
Some of the exhibits (Wikimedia Commons)
Some of the exhibits (Wikimedia Commons)
The upper floor of the building houses an extensive collection of books and railway photographs. The photograph archive includes more than 150,000 prints and negatives and around 25,000 colour slides.. This research facility is available to review on request; for details see the KRM Web site.
The Museum is also host to a small collection of rolling stock outside in the vicinity of the relocated Wrangaton Signal Box.
Kidderminster Railway Museum has a small buffet, and also sells new and second-hand books.
Interior view (Wikimedia Commons)
As an unconnected enterprise, The Engine House at Highley displays a collection of larger items such as locomotives and rolling stock.
See Also
The Engine House Visitor Centre at Highley
Rolling stock at Kidderminster Railway Museum
