Family Festival at Didcot Railway Centre

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The Didcot Railway Centre Family Festival celebrates summer with a fun family day out with lots of entertainment

Travel back in time to the golden age of the Great Western Railway and savour the sights, sounds and smells of steam as you explore this 21-acre living museum with trains dating from Victorian times to the 1960s.

• Steam trains will be operating on at least one of the Centre's two demonstration lines, allowing you to take unlimited rides.
• Stroll around the 1932 Engine Shed housing our unique collection of operational and cosmetically-restored locomotives.
• Make tracks to the outdoor play area or dress up as a station master
• Visit the carriage and wagon display of restored rolling stock from Victorian times to the 1940s
• Marvel at Brunel's Broad Gauge railway, locomotives, coaches and transfer shed and don't miss a section of his not entirely successful 'Atmospheric Railway'
• Get hands-on in The Signalling Centre where you can find out how trains have been controlled through the ages.
• Descend into a shelter built to keep Didcot's enginemen safe in WWII and experience an air raid
• Immerse yourself in the huge and varied collection of fascinating, smaller items in the Museum. 
• Discover some GWR road vehicles in the Road Transport Hangar.