Our museum display, upstairs in the station building in Downpatrick, will take you through the history of railways in County Down – from the railway’s first sod being cut to closure of the BCDR system in 1950.

We also have an interesting collection of railway artefacts connected with the BCDR:

• Signals and signalling equipment and diagrams
• Track and permanent way equipment
• Permanent way tools
• Old-style Edmondson tickets
• Original railway signs and posters

Our museum department also provides items and interpretive displays for the carriage gallery.

You can visit the museum on any day the railway is operating. See our calendar for details of when we are open. If you wish to visit the museum outside these times, please contact us before you travel to see us. As we are relying on a small group of volunteers to run the railway, we may not be able to open for you at a specific date and time, so we would ask you to please be flexible with your requirements.