Coleford Great Western Railway Museum

Coleford Great Western Railway Museum is a railway museum located in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway.

Opening hours: Friday and Saturday 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Type: Museum
Postal code: GL16 8RH

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Studio Cinema and Forest House.

Studio Cinema

Movie theater

Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Studio Cinema is a movie theater, which is situated 640 feet northwest of Coleford Great Western Railway Museum.

Forest House

Building

Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Forest House is a building, which is situated 520 feet west of Coleford Great Western Railway Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baker’s Hill and Coalway.

Coleford is a market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles east of the Welsh border and close to the Wye Valley. It is the administrative centre of the Forest of Dean district.

Coalway

Village

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Coalway is a village in the West Forest of Dean region of Gloucestershire, England, approximately one mile south-east of the town of Coleford. Within the civil parish of Coleford, the village is just south of the village of Broadwell.

Broadwell

Village

Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Broadwell is a village about 1 mile east of Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. It is at the western edge of the Forest of Dean, in the civil parish of Coleford, which is also its post town. The village of Mile End is to the north and Coalway is to the south.

Coleford Great Western Railway Museum

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Coleford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.79144° or 51° 47′ 29″ north

Longitude

-2.61534° or 2° 36′ 55″ west

Open location code

9C3VQ9RM+HV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1159375558

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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Highlights: Coleford Library and The Main Place.

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Places to explore: Railway Museum and Coleford Health Centre.

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