Greenfield Valley Rails and Steam Museum is open on Sunday 27th August

The Greenfield Valley Rails and Steam Museum is based in the beautifully restored 250 year old Lower Cotton Mill warehouse and on Sunday 27th August visitors can enter the museum for free.

The many attractions in the museum include - a prizewinning model of Holywell Town Station, as it looked shortly before its closure over 70 years ago;  the incredible small battery locomotive, that, working hundreds of feet below Holywell, pulled wagons in the Milwr Tunnel and the delights of the rare steam operated pop bottling plant, one of only three left in the country.

Brenda Harvey, Chair Greenfield Valley Trust, said:

“The Rails and Steam museum is a great attraction part way up the Valley from the visitor centre. Enthusiasts love it but so do other visitors, adults and children, who are intrigued by the exhibits and the story that they tell.  A particular highlight is that the Greenfield Valley volunteers, whose enthusiasm and dedication led to the creation of the museum, are on hand to share their knowledge. The museum at the Lower Cotton Mill is only open on designated days and this is one of just two more opportunities to see it this year. Entry is free between 12noon and 3pm so I encourage Valley visitors to call in.”

Ray Bailey, one of the Rails and Steam Museum volunteers said:

“The volunteers enjoy talking to visitors on the open days.  The pop bottling plant is impressive to see in full swing and the whistle of the steam boiler can be heard through the valley. The children also love the railway craft event that we have on open days and seeing ’George’ sitting at the original desk from the old signal box at Holywell station.  The museum is outside the Valley’s pay boundary and so there is no cost at all to call in and see the museum’s attractions.”