Summerlee Heritage Park

Summerlee Heritage Park

Summerlee Heritage Park is an industrial museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was built on the site of the old Summerlee Ironworks and incorporated the main workshop of the former Hydrocon Crane factory.

It temporarily closed in 2006, but reopened on 26 September 2008 following a £10m refurbishment.

The former main hall has been rebuilt. The museum aims to show Lanarkshire's contribution to engineering, including interactive displays and a children's "Discovery Zone".

The museum also incoporates several railway steam locomotives, preserved carriages from a 1960s era Glasgow "Blue Train" and has a short working tramline.

ee also

*Beamish Museum - an industrial museum in the North of England
*Black Country Living Museum - an industrial museum in the West Midlands conurbation
*East Anglia Transport Museum
*Glasgow Museum of Transport
*National Tramway Museum
*The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft

External link

* [http://www.northlan.gov.uk/leisure+and+tourism/museums+and+heritage/summerlee+heritage+park/index.html Official website]


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