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Alberta Railway Museum

The Alberta Railway Museum opened in 1976 in a historic spot, on the former Canadian Northern Railway Coronado Subdivision.

Nevada Northern Railway Museum

The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is a railroad museum located in Ely, Nevada and operated by a historic foundation dedicated to the preservation of the Nevada Northern Railway.

Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum

The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.


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Cardiff Bay railway station

The building was restored in the 1980s and served for a time as a railway museum under the auspices of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and the Butetown Historical Railway Society (which in 1997 relocated its activities to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway).

East Anglian Railway Museum

The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury.

In November 2009, a plaque was erected on the East Anglian Railway Museum by PRS for Music.

Eaton Internment Camp

In 2005, as part of a national campaign to seek official acknowledgement and redress for the World War I internment of Ukrainians and others, the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage, an academic unit at the University of Saskatchewan, in association with the Saskatchewan Railway Museum commissioned and unveiled on the original site a bronze and tindal-stone memorial.

Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway

During the period required for its repair, a steam-hauled freight train of the Hanau railway museum (Museumseisenbahn Hanau) railway ran over the Taunus to Steinefrenz station to supply the concrete sleepers.

National Railway Museum Inclinator

The National Railway Museum Inclinator was a short demonstration funicular railway located inside the National Railway Museum in the English city of York.

Ohai

The Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust, which had no connection with the Ohai Railway Board, was involved in the restoration of steam locomotives including members of the P and V classes and a railway museum was been established, but the trust has been dissolved.

PKP class EP03

The only locomotive in operation is EP03-01, currently in the railway museum in Chabówka.

PKP class ET21

The only running first-series ET21 locomotive is ET21-57 machine located in Chabówka railway museum.

Richmond Vale Railway Museum

The Richmond Vale Railway Museum operates a railway and museum located at Richmond Vale south of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales with the aim of preserving the Richmond Vale railway line and Mining Heritage of J&A Brown and the Hunter Valley.

San Diego and Arizona Railway

December 1985: the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum revives the historic San Diego & Arizona Railway name, inaugurating its Golden State demonstration passenger trains from Campo, California east to Miller Creek and west to Division and Tunnel 4 at the Mexican border.

Saxon XIV HT

Two locomotives have been preserved: number 75 501 by the German Steam Locomotive Museum at Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, which was loaned to the Schwarzenberg railway museum in 2002 and number 75 515 by the Saxon Railway Museum in Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf, which was badly damaged in a shunting accident on 14 June 1983 at Karl-Marx-Stadt Hauptbahnhof.

Tyseley Locomotive Works

Tyseley Locomotive Works, formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum is the engineering arm of steam railtour promoter Vintage Trains based in Birmingham, England.

Whippany

Whippany Railway Museum, a railway museum and excursion train ride in the above town