Coleford Great Western Railway Museum

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Coleford Great Western Railway Museum is a railway museum located in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway. There was also another station situated at Coleford, it was opened by the Severn and Wye Railway. The Museum traces the history of all the railways in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire from the early 19th century when the first plateways were laid, to the 1970s when the Dean Forest Railway was founded. The Museum has information about the Wye Valley Railway, Severn & Wye Railway and Monmouth Troy railway station. ()

Coordinates: 51°47'29"N, 2°36'55"W

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Railway DrColeford GL16 8RH EnglandUnited Kingdom

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+44 1594 833569

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Coleford Great Western Railway Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Clearwell Caves, Upper Wye Gorge, Puzzlewood, Penallt Viaduct.

1.4 miS
Museum, Mine, Cave
Clearwell Caves
36 min walk • Clearwell Caves, at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system which has been extensively mined for iron ore. It now operates primarily as a mining museum.
2.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Upper Wye Gorge, Letcombe Valley
72 min walk • Upper Wye Gorge is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its biological and geological characteristics, around Symonds Yat in the Wye Valley on the Wales–England border.
1 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Puzzlewood
25 min walk • Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site and tourist attraction, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The site, covering 14 acres, shows evidence of open-cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.
2.5 miW
Bridge
Penallt Viaduct, Letcombe Valley
65 min walk • Penallt Viaduct is a viaduct that formerly carried the Wye Valley Railway over the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between England and Wales. The 14-mile Wye Valley Railway opened on 1 November 1876.
1.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Darkhill Ironworks, Forest of Dean
35 min walk • Darkhill Ironworks, and the neighbouring Titanic Steelworks, are internationally important industrial remains associated with the development of the iron and steel industries. Both are scheduled monuments.
1.8 miS
Forts and castles
Clearwell Castle
46 min walk • Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years.
2.9 miSW
Protected area
Graig Wood, Monmouth
74 min walk • Graig Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its biological characteristics, in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It forms part of the wider Hael Woods complex.
2.6 miSW
Natural attraction, Protected area
Highbury Wood, Letcombe Valley
65 min walk • Highbury Wood is a 50.74-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1983. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site.
3 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Harper's Grove – Lord's Grove
77 min walk • Harper's Grove – Lord's Grove is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its biological characteristics, in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.
2.9 miE
Park, Vernacular architecture
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Forest of Dean
74 min walk • The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail is a point of interest in the Forest of Dean in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The Sculpture Trail links several different site-specific sculptures commissioned for the forest.
3.1 miNW
Natural attraction, Protected area
Lady Park Wood National Nature Reserve, Letcombe Valley
79 min walk • Lady Park Wood National Nature Reserve is a 45-hectare nature reserve straddling the borders of Gloucestershire in England and Monmouthshire in Wales.