Internal Fire Museum of Power

Opening Hours

Easter until October
Wed - Sun: 10.30am to 5.00pm
Bank Holidays: 10.30pm to 5.00 pm
Seven days a week in August
Events

Opening

The museum opens five days a week (Weds to Sun) plus Bank Holidays from Easter (Good Friday, 10th April) until the end of October (Saturday 31st) but is open 7 days a week for the month of August.
See the Events section for special weekends and steaming days

Entry

Admission charges
Adults: £7.50
Concessions: £6.75
Student: £5.00
Children (under 12): £3.75
Family ticket: £21.00
Armed Forces: No charge
Friends of the museum and under 5s go free.

Discount for groups, coaches welcome.

There are engines running daily from small to giant.
Telephones to play with and working radios. Most Halls have an engine running all day and larger engines are started as and when required.
Equipment in the telephone and radio rooms is always running and interactive.

Steaming Days

Two Sundays a month with engines in steam from 11:00am to 3:30pm
See Events for details

The Steam Halls are open every day and some engines are turned using compressed air or motors but on certain days each month they are steamed, check the events listing for details.

Industrial Heritage is particularly important as
we move into the age of technology, it keeps
us in touch with the practical skills that helped form
where we are today.

Internal Fire charts the development of the steam engine through to the most modern internal combustion engines. The continuous development that has shaped modern engine technology is demonstrated by working engines from 1850s steam engines through to modern computer controlled high speed diesels.

Engines run in the museum every day with a variety of sounds and smells that are eye opening to those who don't remember and evocative of a previous life to those who do.

Always Something Running

Daily what is happening

There are always engines running when we are open.
Things need to work to come alive and every day there will be engines running around the museum. At least 8 engines are running at any time and other engines are started and run throughout the day.