HC Deb 21 November 1996 vol 285 cc647-8W
Mr. MacShane

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list the museums or heritage centres covering the history and national heritage of(a) the rail industry, (b) the coal industry, (c) the car industry and (d) the steel industry. [4841]

Mr. Sproat

The Museum and Galleries Commission's DOMUS database identifies the following museums as being wholly or partly devoted to the history of the rail, coach, car or steel industries:

  • Railways
  • Birmingham Railway Museum
  • Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway
  • Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
  • Cheddleton Railway Centre
  • Crail Museum
  • Darlington Railway Museum
  • Dean Forest Railway Society Museum
  • Didcot Railway Centre
  • Downpartrick Steam Railway
  • East Anglian Railway Museum
  • Embsay Steam Railway
  • Festiniog Railway Museum
  • Foxfield Steam Railway
  • Foyle Valley Railway
  • Great Western Railway Museum: Thamesdown Museums
  • Service
  • Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
  • Isle of Wight Steam Railway
  • Kidderminster Railway Museum
  • Leighton Buzzard Railway Museum
  • Midland Railway Centre
  • Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
  • Newton Abbot Town and Great Western Railway Museum
  • The National Railway Museum
  • North Norfolk Railway
  • North Yorkshire Moors Railway
  • Railway Museum, Raven glass
  • Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
  • Railway Village Museum
  • Railworld
  • Rutland Railway Museum
  • Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust Museum
  • Southport Railway Centre
  • Stephenson Railway Museum, Tyne and Wear Museums
  • Tanfield Railway
  • Timothy Hackworth Victorian and Railway Museum
  • Winchcombe Railway Museum

Coal

  • Big Pit Mining Museum
  • Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery
  • Lancashire Mining Museum
  • National Coal Mining Museum for England
  • Scottish Mining Museum

Motor Industry and Cars

  • Atwell-Wilson Motor Museum
  • Automobilia Transport Museum
  • Autoworld at the Patrick Collection
  • Betws-Y-Coed Motor Museum
  • Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry
  • Brooklands Museum
  • Bugatti Trust
  • C. M. Booth Collection of Historic Vehicles
  • Dalbeattie Museum Trust Ltd.
  • Doune Collection
  • Grampian Transport Museum
  • Haynes Motor Museum
  • Heritage Motor Centre
  • Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust
  • Jersey Motor Museum
  • Lakeland Motor Museum
  • Manx Motor Museum
  • Museum of British Road Transport
  • National Motor Museum
  • Newburn Hall Motor Museum
  • Totnes Motor Museum

Steel

  • Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
  • Cyfarthfa Castle Museum
  • Millom Folk Museum
  • Kelharn Island Museum.

Next year, Science Museum, London, will be opening the "Challenge of Materials Gallery" including exhibits connected with the steel industry.

There is no definitive listing of heritage centres available held centrally.