Dales Countryside Museum

The Dales Countryside Museum is a local museum for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England. Run by the National Park Authority, it tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in the Yorkshire Dales for over a 1,000 years.[1] The museum is located beside the disused Hawes railway station in the small town of Hawes at the head of Wensleydale.[2] The museum's outdoor display includes a real steam train and carriages on the track bed of the former Wensleydale Railway.

Buildings and museum train

The railway station remains in its original site, now part of Museum building. Since 2015, part of the redundant station has been rented to a business operating a bike shop and later, also a cafe.[3][4]


The steam engine a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Works No 7845 No.12 Current number 67345 0-6-0T was built in 1955 by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn to work at Hams Hall Power Station at Sutton Coalfield. Little is known about the early preservation history of the locomotive although it was at Sheringham on the North Norfolk railway in 1975/76. It moved to Ruddington, at what is now the Great Central Railway at Nottingham, in 1998 for cosmetic restoration. For many years the locomotive has been on display at the Dales countryside Museum at Hawes at Wensleydale.

 It carries the number 67345 as this was the number of the NER G5 class locomotive which hauled the last passenger train out of Hawes station in 1959. The last freight train used the line in 1964 after which the line was lifted.[5]

References
  1. Barnett, Ben, ed. (8 December 2018). "Yorkshire Treasures No. 86". The Yorkshire Post. Country Week. p. 21. ISSN 0963-1496.
  2. "Dales Countryside Museum". Art Fund. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  3. "New business opens in Dales Countryside Museum". Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. "New cafe opens in Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes". The Bolton News. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  5. "Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Works No 7845 No 12 67345 0-6-0T". Preserved British Steam Locomotives. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

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