Didcot Railway Centre

Explore almost 200 years of Great Western Railway history at Didcot Railway Centre.

Travel back in time to the golden age of the Great Western Railway and savour the sights, sounds and smells of steam as you explore this 21-acre living museum with trains dating from Victorian times to the 1960s.

Kids, there's been a disaster, Santa's reindeer have run away and he needs them to help deliver the presents on Christmas Eve. Can you help him find them? Explore the unique collection of Great Western Railway exhibits as well as receiving a special passport and a stocking and as a reward you'll receive a small gift at each reindeer station. You'll then visit Santa in our giant toyshop where you can choose your own present.

Explore this 21-acre living museum and unearth almost two centuries of railway history. There's the chance to get up close and see them at close quarters.

Pick up our colourful Centre Guide and stroll through the original 1932 Engine Shed and see magnificent preserved locomotives – find 5900 Hinderton Hall, climb onto the footplate and listen to Archie, the driver, and Stan, the fireman, prepare their loco! Listen out for the sounds of a working engine shed and see if you can hear Stan fetch his supplies from Jonah, the storeman.

 

Gerald Dickens performs 'A Christmas Carol' at Didcot Railway Centre at 6.30pm on 14th December

Enjoy an exclusive performance of this wonderful Christmas tale in a Victorian setting.

What Christmas would be complete without a performance of the quintessential classic tale 'A Christmas Carol'? Performed by the Gerald Dickens, the great, great grandson of the author Charles Dickens, you'll be part of an exclusive audience at 6.30pm on 14th December 2023 at Didcot Railway Centre where he recounts this fantastic story.

One of the most well loved and meaningful Christmas stories of all times comes to life at Didcot Railway Centre this year. Experience a Charles Dickens masterpiece, ‘A Christmas Carol’ performed by his great, great grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens on the 14th December, 180 years after it was first published. The scene will be set as you are transported down to the performance which will take place in an evocative station building, our transfer shed, which captures the atmosphere perfectly. Gerald has been performing ‘A Christmas Carol’ to the delight of audiences worldwide and we are delighted to invite you to attend a one-off special performance of this most iconic classic Christmas tale. The two hour performance (including an interval where you will be served mulled wine and mince pies) will see Gerald hurling himself into the Scroogean fray dressed in Victorian costume on an atmospherically lit station platform with two armchairs, stool, rug, table, hat rack and lamp. This will ignite the wonderment of the season through the immortal words of Dickens’ classic ghost story. Gerald is never still as he adopts different voices including Marley, Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come - sometimes mid-sentence, his expressions and mannerisms portraying each of the story’s twenty six characters in this acclaimed one-man show. This performance is unforgettable, as he brings to life all the meaning of the original story. The evening will finish when you\'re taken by diesel back to our entry gate to wend your way home.

Didcot Railway Centre

Didcot, Oxfordshire,
OX11 7NJ Oxford

info@didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk

www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk

01235817200

Travel back in time to the golden age of the Great Western Railway and savour the sights, sounds and smells of steam as you explore this 21-acre living museum with trains dating from Victorian times to the 1960s.

Explore this 21-acre living museum and unearth almost two centuries of railway history. There's the chance to get up close and see them at close quarters.

Pick up our colourful Centre Guide and stroll through the original 1932 Engine Shed and see magnificent preserved locomotives – find 5900 Hinderton Hall, climb onto the footplate and listen to Archie, the driver, and Stan, the fireman, prepare their loco! Listen out for the sounds of a working engine shed and see if you can hear Stan fetch his supplies from Jonah, the storeman.

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