Events in 2024

Steaming Days
(10:00am - 5:00pm)

Last admission - 4:00pm

February:	February	17^th, 18^th
Easter:	March / April	March 31^st, April 1^st
Early May Bank Holiday:	May	5^th, 6^th
Spring Bank Holiday:	May	26^th, 27^th
Summer Bank Holiday:	August	25^th, 26^th
September:	September	28^th, 29^th
October:	October	26^th, 27^th

Open Days (non steaming)
(10:00am - 5:00pm)

Model Steam Engines:	June	15^th, 16^th
Model Railway & Engineering Exhibition:	July	13^th, 14^th
Land Rover Day:	August	11^th
Heritage Open Days:	September	7^th, 14^th

The Museum is also open for static viewing
• Thursdays (10:00am - 4:00pm)
• Saturdays (10:00am - 4:00pm)

Admission prices on Steaming Days: Adults £10.00; Concessions £9.00; Children 15 & under FREE (must be accompanied by a paying adult)
Admission prices for the Model Steam Engines, Model Railway & Engineering Exhibition, Land Rover Day: TBC
Admission on all other days is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.
Bookings for steaming & exhibition days are not taken, please pay on arrival.
Visiting vintage vehicles & motorbikes will usually be admitted onto the site free of charge.
For Group visits and other special requirements, please contact us.

Guided tours

Non-steaming days: 11:00am & 1:00pm - meet in the Stokers Rest Café

Let our expert knowledgeable guides tell you all about the station, answer your questions and take you to a couple of special off-limits locations.

Steaming days

People sometimes wonder what's the difference between a Steaming Weekend, and static viewing. Static viewing you can do any time our double gates are open; we'll be happy to welcome you, let you wander round or give you a guided tour, but you won't see the thing that makes Claymills come alive; the engines working.

We raise steam 7 times a year; if there's a Bank Holiday, our weekend is Sunday and Monday, if not, plain old Saturday and Sunday. It takes 3 days of hard work by the boilermen and £1,000 worth of coal per day to raise that steam in our 30 ft Lancashire boilers - they've been known to appreciate visitors taking a hand at stoking!

The steam drives our Victorian workshop, all 4 five-storey-high beam engines that used to pump all the sewage and brewery waste away from Burton, (don't worry, we don't do that any more,) more than 25 other smaller ancillary stationary engines, our working dynamos, (the oldest in the country,) and even heats the water in our Victorian bath-house.

Whilst the boilermen are raising steam, the front of house team are preparing the children's activities, welcoming visiting exhibitors, and making sure that our Stoker's Rest café is well stocked with snacks and cakes.

You can stop for a cuppa and get a light meal before (or after) walking around the site taking in the sights, sounds and smells, (hissing steam, hot oil, our Whispering Giant beam engines,) and talking to our very knowledgeable volunteers, who, of course, are the ones who bring the place to life at a steaming.

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• You pay a bit extra on the admission prices listed above.
• We give you a visitor information pack worth £2.50.
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