This museum has the largest collection of narrow gauge underground mining locomotives in the UK. There is a variety of gauges with the operating line of 2ft gauge. Refreshingly, the locomotives are almost all securely sheeted over rather than being allowed to deteriorate in the open. However, I was given access to the loco shed and one locomotive ventured out for photos.
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| Some of the locomotives, secure under their tarpaulins |
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| This 1957 English Electric battery locomotive greets visitors to the museum. |
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| A 1947 Hunslet on display outside the engine house |
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| This Hunslet stockyard shunter of 1979 normally is found in the loco shed |
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| This dounble ended Hunslet of 1973 is named ROGER BOWEN after the colliery manager who was persuaded to retrieve it from underground on closure. |
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| The massive steam winding engine built in Blackburn in 1912. |
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