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Sunday 23rd February 2025

Paddington Bear will be paying a visit to Buckinghamshire Railway Centre during February half term!  He'll be here and appearing at intervals throughout the day! Plus, enjoy steam train rides, visit our Railway Museum, and also visit our stunning glass-roofed visitor centre and the beautiful steam locomotive and carriages on display!

Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th May 2025

NEW for 2025: Steam, Classic & Country Fair

Kids just £1. Steam, traction, static and miniature engines. Classic bikes, cars, tractors, fire engines, buses and trucks on display. Lots of family fun and games, including ponies and a dog show.

Our heritage railway will be fully open with a full-size restored steam locomotive in steam and offering passenger rides up and down our track all day long, plus the miniature and model railways will be running, our Railway Museum and Visitor Centre with cafe and gift shop will all be open as well!

On display, we will have farm machinery including a selection of tractors, full size traction engines, stationary engines and miniature traction engines and you can admire them all around our site.

We are so excited to share that Bluey is coming to Buckinghamshire Railway Centre on 21st September 2025!  Come and meet the lovable Blue Heeler at intervals throughout the day.

There will be lots for the whole family to see and do at our heritage railway, with 25-acres to explore! Enjoy steam train rides, take a trip on the miniature railway, enjoy the visitor centre and railway museum, watch the model railway and enjoy our café and gift shops.

Ridgeway Run of Historic Commercial Vehicles for Father's Day!

Enjoy the 41st Annual Ridgeway Run for Historic Commercial Vehicles. It will be here on Father's Day, as usual. The rally starts in Henley and finishes at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre arriving here around 11am, in time for you to admire them all! 

Organised by the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society (South Midlands area), we are pleased to welcome members together with their commercial vehicles at this popular rally when, usually, up to 60 historic vehicles will be on display. Last year we had 80 vehicles!

Enter your name and email address on our sheet at the welcome desk for a chance to win Special Event tickets in our draw!

We will also be operating our site as usual, which means visitors can enjoy unlimited steam train rides, the railway museum, the miniature ride-on steam trains (£1.50 each - under 3s are free) and the model railway, plus our stunning Visitor Centre with cafe and gift shop.

Gates open 10.30am and last admission 3.30pm. Tickets can be bought on the gate or pre-booked here!

Auto Fest - Our Classic Vehicle Rally: Bank Holiday Monday 25th August

Owners of any classic vehicles are invited to come and exhibit their vehicles at our biggest rally of the year! Please pre-register if you want to exhibit your vehicle by emailing: office@bucksrailcentre.org or by emailing us this registration form. Cars, motorbikes, vans, buses, fire engines, bicycles... any classic vehicle will be welcome! Steam train rides and all the fun of our heritage railway will be on offer as well of course. A suggested (but not obligatory) donation of £6 for exhibitors. 

Visitors can enjoy dozens of classic vehicles on display, plus all the sights and sounds of our heritage railway: unlimited steam train rides, Railway Museum, Miniature and Model Railways, Visitor Centre with cafe and gift shop, plus everything else a 25-acre working heritage railway has to offer! 

This is our special community day when we celebrate our Emergency Services and raise awareness for local charities and societies from our local community. Our Emergency Services come along and bring their vehicles for visitors to admire (of course, their presence here is subject to emergency call outs, as usual). The whole heritage railway will be open as usual, so visitors can enjoy all the usual fun of a Steaming Day at The Railway!

Please be aware that although the fire department do always send a fire engine, so far, each year they have been here, they have been called out to an emergency at some point during the event. This year, we are hoping for a heritage fire engine or two to come along as well which worked really well last year!

Special admission price of only £7 each - under 3s go free as usual. 

PLUS! Like last year, all Emergency Services personnel (including NHS, Police and fire service workers) get FREE ENTRY! Simply show your work ID when you arrive, but you must pre-book tickets for the other members of your party. This event sells out faster than any other event, so please pre-book to avoid disappointment!

Steam train rides with a full size steam locomotive, see The Railway Museum, ride the Miniature Railway, watch the model trains and visit the Visitor Centre. The gift shop and café will be open! 

We also have a few other vintage emergency vehicles coming and lots of trusts/charities/societies most of which are all linked to the same emergency theme... Medical Detection Dogs, Search Dogs for Bucks, Bucks Search and Rescue, Alec's Angels, Ducklings Trust, BBO Wildlife Trust, Sunbeam Fostering, SSAFA Armed Forces Charity and Casualties Union. There will be lots to see, do and learn about on this fabulous day out for all the family! 

Open 10.30am-5pm. Last admissions 3pm.

Monday 5th May 2025

The Dinosaurs are coming BACK!
A perfect day out for your Dino-mad children. It’s going to be ROAR-some! 

This time we have got new dinosaurs coming, including Roxy the T-Rex! Also coming will be: Europe's Betsy the Tricerotops, Echo the velociraptor, a raptor and a selection of baby dinosaurs!

They will be appearing on the grass outside the visitor centre throughout the day, offering visitors the chance to meet these amazing animals up close.

Your ticket also includes access around the whole 25-acre site of our heritage railway meaning you can enjoy unlimited passenger train rides behind a full-size steam locomotive, plus, visit the railway museum, visitor centre with gift shop and café, enjoy the model railway, miniature train rides (£1.50 per person, under 3s free) and admire all the exhibits around the site, from the great steam locomotives on display outside or in the sheds, to railway buildings, carriages and wagons from various eras all across the site.

Use our café, or bring a picnic to enjoy at one of the many outdoor picnic tables around the site. We are open from 10.30am-5pm.

We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting SHOWBUS 2025, which will be held on Sunday 13th July – so put the date in your diaries now; get those buses registered and your visitor tickets pre-booked! 

There will be the opportunity for visitors to ride on some of the exhibits from the site around the local countryside.

For those who like to arrive using public transport, there will be a dedicated shuttle bus service operating from Aylesbury.  Plus, you will be pleased to hear that the SHOWBUS Traders’ Village will make a welcome return. Please click here to register for a Trand Stand.

As we are a heritage railway, there will of course be lots of other things to see and do during your visit, including train rides behind a restored steam locomotive; the fabulous railway museum to look around; rides on the miniature railway (£1.50 per person) and the opportunity to watch the model railway at work. We also have a Travelling Post Office with interesting displays and a chance to learn how mail was sorted. Lots to see and do so it’s a whole day out!

Exhibitors will have free entry (driver plus up to 5 passengers per bus). Contact us for more details on 01296 655720 or click here to register your bus.