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The Museum reopens on the 17th April 2025 and our events season starts on the 20 April, Easter Sunday. Keep up to date with what is happening at the Museum on our Facebook page


  • All cleaned out!

    As part of the recent rebuilding of the Museum, the team of volunteers have taken great care to make sure that the storage of operational materials are handled away from those areas in which visitors want to focus on the heritage aspects of their tour. After a great deal of hard work, the team succeeded…

  • Barclay Steam Locomotive

    Our resident Barclay steam locomotive AB1931 returns to the Museum from its loan to the Royal Deeside Railway earlier in the year to assist with their steam locomotive shortage. As a special event we hope to offer both of our operational 14” Andrew Barclay locomotives in service over the weekend, this being the first time…

  • IRON AGE SPEAR HEADS???

    At first glance it might seem that the archaeologists and historians at Rocks by Rail have unearthed some very fine examples of prehistoric archaeology in the form of iron age spear heads! Fearsome stuff for those unweary travellers in these parts 3,000 years ago! In reality, our curatorial team have put on display some of…

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