The past comes to life in Durham. Get hands-on with history at award-winning Beamish, hop aboard a steam engine at Locomotion, ride the world's oldest working railway at Tanfield or don a hart hat and head down the mine at Killhope, the North of England Lead Mining Museum.
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Killhope is a multi award winning, family friendly Victorian museum with the most complete lead mining site in Great Britain. Underground mine tours, exhibitions, walks, hands on activites to delight all ages. Shop and Cafe
Cowshill
Oldest existing railway in the world, opened 1725. Steam-hauled passenger trains, vintage carriages, 61 locomotives and steam-driven vintage workshop. Please see website for datws and operating times.
Tanfield
Picnic site which is home to the world’s oldest surviving single arch railway bridge.
Stanley
The museum, home to many vehicles from the National Railway Collection, regularly welcomes guest locomotives and exhibitions. Locomotion explores our railway heritage through interactive displays and offers an exciting events program.
Shildon
Beamish - The Living Museum of the North, is an open air museum vividly recreating life in the North East in Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian times.
Beamish
Built in the 1720s, Derwentcote is the earliest and most complete steel-making furnace to have survived in Britain.
Hamsterley Colliery
The Weardale Railway follows the path of the River Wear and passes through the spectacular scenery of Weardale. With historic connections to the Stockton & Darlington Railway, it was once a vital link to the industrial heart of Teesside.
Stanhope