Day Out With Thomas

On a Day Out With Thomas, you will be able to:

• Ride behind Thomas in coaches from the 1930s on 'The Branch Line'.
• See Diesel shunt the Troublesome Trucks
• Meet the Fat Controller, and enjoy a wide range of children's entertainments.

You can book in advance with Ticketweb.
Book on line at: Ticketweb UK Ltd 48 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LR
(Tel 08444 77 1000)

• Ride in coaches from the 1930s behind Duck, a Great Western pannier tank locomotive, on 'The Main Line'. You may ride as many times as you like as there is no extra charge
• Watch the trains go past. There are frequent journeys on our running line so you will have plenty of opportunity to take photos from vantage points alongside the tracks as well as ride on the trains
• See the turntable in use. We normally turn a locomotive just after lunch
• Inspect our collection of over twenty Great Western Railway steam locomotives, and a diesel railcar dating from 1940, housed in and around the original 1932 engine shed or under repair in the locomotive works
• Discover our Great Western carriage collection which, with over forty vehicles covering the period from the 1880s through to the 1950s, is probably the most comprehensive of any of the pre-nationalisation railways. We also have great variety of goods wagons on display
• Look around our displays including a re-creation of Brunel's broad gauge railway, branch line with restored buildings and signalling, turntable and more
• Experience an air-raid in the 1940 built World War II Air Raid Shelter
• Learn from the interactive displays in the Science, Learning and Railways exhibition coaches
• See the wide variety of smaller items once used by the Great Western Railway in the Great Western Trust Museum
• Visit our shop and refreshment room
• Relax in our picnic area.