How long to stay? This
depends very much on the nature of your party - but we would suggest that you
should allow at least 45 minutes for your visit.Group Visits (10 or more persons)
Vintage Carriages Trust's Museum of Rail Travel welcomes Group Visits - both for adults and for children (including School Parties). Return to the home page for details of how to find us, how to contact us, and our normal admission hours - but please note that special opening outside these hours is usually possible: please ask!
We ask for all visits to be pre-booked (with the actual payment being made on the day) - you may print out and fax or post to us our Group Booking Form: we will then contact you to confirm your booking.
How long to stay? This
depends very much on the nature of your party - but we would suggest that you
should allow at least 45 minutes for your visit.
How much does it cost?
Our Group admission charges are £1 for Children and
Concessions, £1-50 for adults. There is NO CHARGE for adults supervising groups of
children (including school parties).
May I visit you beforehand, to
help prepare for our visit? Of
course - no charge! Please let us know, preferably in advance. We would
recommend a preliminary visit, especially to Teachers and others before bringing
a School or other party of children, which will allow us to show you how we can
help with the educational content of your visit.
What catering do you offer - can
we bring our own picnics? We regret
that the Museum has no catering facility. However, soft drinks, ice cream,
confectionery and a tea, coffee and hot soup machine are available in the Shop.
Picnics may be taken outside, where there is limited seating available, or if
the weather is inclement in the Museum (very limited seating).
Toilets? Yes.
Including accessible.
Shop? Yes. We've already mentioned
confectionery, ice cream, tea, coffee and soft drinks. There's also a range of
small souvenirs relating to railways in general and to our Museum in particular.
Of interest to the real railway enthusiasts in your Party is our main area of business - a very wide range of back-number railway-interest magazines, pre-owned railway books and videos of every description, and railway "hardware" of every description (bridge number plates, builders plates, lamps, signal finials, pay checks, paperwork, etc..). For further information here go back to the home page and then look for "Our Shops".
Car and coach parking? Is it far to walk? There's plenty of parking
in Ingrow Yard, including close to our Museum, which is at the far end of the
Yard. Large coaches should park to the right immediately on arrival, just before
Ingrow Railway Station. It's then a 200 yard level walk to the Museum. Small
coaches and minibuses can drive to or door - there's sufficient space to turn
easily. (Large coaches can turn here, but not easily).
Facilities for our coach driver? Coach
drivers are welcome to make use of our Staff Mess Room, including free use of
tea and coffee facilities (and of a microwave oven, if it helps!).
Special Need facilities? Level access, wheelchair lift to central
viewing walkway, information leaflet in Braille,
introductory sound guide available to hire. Accessible toilet. Information
panels at heights appropriate for wheelchair users.
What else can we visit that's nearby? The Worth Valley Railway
is adjacent - see their website for details of operating days etc.
The Ingrow Loco Museum (owned by the Bahamas Locomotive Society) is
also open when Worth Valley railway trains are operating. Other local attractions include: the Bronte Parsonage at Haworth: Cliffe Castle Museum
at Keighley: East Riddlesden Hall, also at Keighley, and Keighley
Bus Museum .
Further information is available from Haworth Tourist Information Centre 01535 642329 or Keighley Information Centre 01535 618014, or from the Bronte Country Partnership website.
Why not combine your visit to the Museum of Rail Travel with a trip on the Worth Valley Railway?
Suggested Itinerary: Arrive at Ingrow Railway Centre and visit Museum of Rail Travel (minimum 45 minutes). Then visit Ingrow Loco (minimum 30 minutes). Board train and take a full line trip ending back at Ingrow. There is ample room to park a coach at Ingrow Railway Centre.
Or, if your time is limited: visit the Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow. Then visit Ingrow Loco. Take the train on an uphill journey to Oxenhope and arrange for your coach to meet your group on arrival there. There is ample coach parking at Oxenhope.