Rutland Railway Museum

Rutland Railway Museum

Hawthorn Leslie Singapore hauling a passenger train
Location	Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland
Type	Railway museum
Website	http://www.rutlandrailwaymuseum.org.uk/

Rutland Railway Museum, now trading as Rocks by Rail: The Living Ironstone Museum, is a heritage railway on part of a former Midland Railway mineral branch line. It is situated north east of Oakham, in Rutland, England.

The museum offers an open-air site dedicated to recreating an ironstone tramway system in its entirety from the extraction of iron ore from a 'first cut' quarry face reproduced in the quarry viewing area to the exchange sidings with the BR rail head. The site is based on a typical 1950s or early 1960s quarry system when both steam and diesel power was evident in the industry. The branch line linked to the Melton Mowbray to Oakham main line at Ashwell Station. Exchange sidings were once located at the museum serving three separate private quarry railway systems associated with the past extraction of iron ore. The museum site was known locally as Cottesmore Iron Ore Mines Sidings.

The museum aims to collect and operate industrial locomotives and mineral wagons from iron ore quarries. They also have a face shovel, a drag line excavator and dumpers as used in quarry systems. The cab of the massive dragline excavator Sundew is on display here.

The museum operates passenger rides on a 0.75 miles (1.21 km) length of track and occupies an area of nearly 9 acres (28,000 m²).

The museum has a whole selection of wagons which are used for demonstrations on open days. Details are below.

This rake is not currently operational and is being offered for sale to interested parties.

This rake is available for use and can be seen in operation.

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Coordinates: 52°42′51″N 0°41′20″W / 52.7143°N 0.6890°W / 52.7143; -0.6890