Rushden Transport Museum

The Rushden, Higham and Wellingborough Railway is a branch line heritage railway operated by the Rushden Historical Transport Society in the town of Rushden in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

Type: Museum
Description: transport museum in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Rushden Historical Transport Society” and “Rushden Transport Museum and Railway”
Address: Station Approach, Rushden, NN10 0AW

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Railway Inn and Rushden Academy.

The Railway Inn

Pub

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Railway Inn is a pub, which is situated 510 feet south of Rushden Transport Museum.

Rushden Academy

School

Rushden Academy is an Academy school in Rushden, Northamptonshire, which was founded in 1977. The school was formerly the Chichele College for Girls until 1991 when it was amalgamated to become The Rushden School, rebranding as the Rushden Community College in 2005 and as Rushden Academy in 2014. Rushden Academy is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Rushden Transport Museum.

Higham Ferrers Pits

Nature reserve

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Higham Ferrers Pits is a 10 hectare nature reserve Northamptonshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Higham Ferrers and Wymington.

Higham Ferrers

Town

Photo: M15ste, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Higham Ferrers is a market town and civil parish in the Nene Valley in North Northamptonshire, England, close to the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire borders.

Wymington

Village

Photo: Will Lovell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wymington is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Bedford in northwestern Bedfordshire, England. It is located about 1.7 miles south of Rushden, in the neighbouring county of Northamptonshire, and about 10 miles north-northwest of Bedford. Wymington is situated 2 miles south of Rushden Transport Museum.

Irchester

Village

Photo: Kokai, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Irchester is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, two miles south-east of Wellingborough and two miles south-west of Rushden. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was 5,706 and estimated in 2019 at 5,767. Irchester is situated 2 miles southwest of Rushden Transport Museum.

Rushden Transport Museum

Categories: transport museum, independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Rushden, East Northamptonshire District, North Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.29433° or 52° 17′ 40″ north

Longitude

-0.59833° or 0° 35′ 54″ west

Open location code

9C4X7CV2+PM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 303713489

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q7380791

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