Transport museums in the United Kingdom

Amberley Working Museum is a museum in Amberley, Arundel, West Sussex, England. It was founded in 1979 and is a 36 acre (146,000 m²) open air museum, next to Amberley railway station. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amberley Working Museum"

The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust (BaMMOT) is a charity that runs a transport museum just outside Birmingham, at Chapel Lane, Wythall, Worcestershire, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust"

The British Commercial Vehicle Museum is located in Leyland, Lancashire and contains many vehicles dating back through the ages. In particular, there are many antiquarian buses on display. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Commercial Vehicle Museum"

Chatham Historic Dockyard is a museum on part of the site of the former naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, England. Chatham Dockyard covered 400 acres (1.6 km²) and was one of the Royal Navy's main facilities for several hundred years until it was closed in 1984. After closure the dockyard was divided into three sections. The easternmost basin was handed over to the Medway Ports Authority and is now a commercial port. Another slice was converted into a mixed commercial, residential and leisure development. 80 acres (324,000 m²), comprising the 18th century core of the site, was transferred to a charity called the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust and is now open as a visitor attraction. It claims to be the world’s most complete dockyard of the Age of Sail. The attraction has five main elements: ...more on Wikipedia about "Chatham Historic Dockyard"

The Coventry Transport Museum (formerly known as the Museum of British Road Transport) is a major motor museum, located in Coventry, England. It houses the most extensive collection of British-made road transport in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coventry Transport Museum"

The de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, formerly the Mosquito Aircraft Museum, is a volunteer run aviation museum in the English county of Hertfordshire, just north of Greater London. The collection is based around the definitive prototype and restoration shops for the de Havilland Mosquito and also includes several examples of the de Havilland Vampire - the third operational jet aircraft in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre"

The East Anglia Transport Museum is located in Carlton Colville near Lowestoft in Suffolk. It houses a large collection of working trams, Trolleybuses and buses. There are also motor cars and street scenes. The working tram extends out to some country side and back into the museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "East Anglia Transport Museum"

The Glasgow Museum of Transport is located in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glasgow Museum of Transport"

The Golden Hind was a ship best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. It was originally known as the Pelican and was renamed in mid-voyage 1577 by Drake as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan. He rechristened the ship the Golden Hind in a political gesture, to compliment his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial crest was a golden hind (in heraldry a "hind" is a doe). ...more on Wikipedia about "Golden Hind"

Hollycombe steam fair holds Edwardian rides originating from the 1870s. Rides are constructed from wood and are powered by steam engines. Visitors can also take three rail-rides, narrow gauge, standard gauge and miniature railway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hollycombe Steam Collection"

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, founded by the Panton Brothers, Fred and Harold Panton, as a memorial to their brother Pilot Officer Christopher Panton, who along with 55,000 other aircrew of Bomber Command lost their lives during WWII. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre"

London Canal Museum is situated in the King's Cross area of London, England, beside Battlebridge Basin on the Regent's Canal. The museum was opened in 1992. The building was constructed around 1860 as a warehouse for ice imported from Norway by ship and canal barge. ...more on Wikipedia about "London Canal Museum"

London's Transport Museum, formerly known as the London Transport Museum, is a museum which seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ...more on Wikipedia about "London's Transport Museum"

The Museum of Army Flying is an award-winning British military aviation museum about the history of flying in the British Army. It is located beside the Army Air Corps Centre in Middle Wallop, close to Andover in Hampshire, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Army Flying" It's real http://www.shortopedia.com feeling! shortopedia

The Museum of Berkshire Aviation is a small aviation museum located in Woodley, a suburb of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. The museum is located on the edge of the site of the former Woodley Airfield, and many of its exhibits relate to the Miles Aircraft Ltd that was based there from 1932 until 1947. Other aircraft exhibited were built by Fairey Aviation at White Waltham to the east of Reading. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Berkshire Aviation"

The Museum of Flight is an aerospace museum at East Fortune Airfield, East Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland. It is one of the National Museums of Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Flight (Scotland)"

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom, and one of the most important in the world. It is based primarily in Greenwich, adjacent to Greenwich Park. The NMM houses a wide and varied collection of exhibits relating to Britain's extensive naval heritage; items range from ships' anchors to royal rowing barges, from naval uniforms to paintings of naval heroes and explorers. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Maritime Museum"

The National Motor Museum (originally the Montagu Motor Museum) is a museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1952 by Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu as a tribute to his father, who was one of the great pioneers of motoring in the United Kingdom, being the first person to drive a motor car into the yard of the Houses of Parliament, and having introduced King Edward VII (then the Prince of Wales) to motoring in the latter part of the 19th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Motor Museum"

The National Tramway Museum is home to many trams that used to run through the streets of cities in Britain and worldwide. It is located in the Crich Tramway Village, a recreated period village near to the modern village of Crich in the English county of Derbyshire. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Tramway Museum"

The British' National Waterways Museum is housed in a Victorian warehouse at Gloucester Docks in the city of Gloucester in South West England. The museum is concerned with Britain's inland waterways; rivers and canals. It has a collection of boats including narrowboats, river barges, canal and river tugs, and a steam powered dredger. There is also a steam crane and heavy oil engine in the setting of a canal repair yard, complete with working machine shop, forge and weighbridge. The museum uses modern interactive techniques and hands on exhibits. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Waterways Museum"

Newark Air Museum is an air museum located at Winthorpe, near Newark on Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Newark Air Museum"

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The Shoreham Aircraft Museum is located in the village of Shoreham near Sevenoaks, Kent, on the south-east edge of Greater London. It was founded by volunteers in 1978 and is dedicated to the airmen who fought in the skies over southern England during World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shoreham Aircraft Museum"

The Shuttleworth Collection is an aeronautical and automotive museum located at the Old Warden Airfield in Bedfordshire, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shuttleworth Collection"

The Steam Ship Great Britain (S.S. Great Britain) was the first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull and a screw propeller, and when launched in 1843 was the largest vessel afloat. She originally carried 120 first class passengers (26 of whom were in single cabins) 132 2nd class passengers, and 130 officers and crew but when an extra deck was added on it increased the number of passengers to 730. ...more on Wikipedia about "SS Great Britain"

Stoke Bruerne is a small village in Northamptonshire in England, UK. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stoke Bruerne" www.shortopedia.com Dreamteam.

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