Events in 2026

Steaming Days

(12:00pm - 8:00pm) Last admission - 7:00pm
January:	January	17^th, 18^th
(10:00am - 5:00pm) Last admission - 4:00pm
February:	February	14^th, 15^th
Easter:	April	5^th, 6^th
Early May Bank Holiday:	May	3^rd, 4^th
Spring Bank Holiday:	May	24^th, 25^th
Summer Bank Holiday:	August	30^th, 31^st
September:	September	26^th, 27^th
October:	October	24^th, 25^th

Open Days (non steaming)
(10:00am - 5:00pm)

Model Engineering Exhibition:	June	13^th, 14^th
Model Railway Exhibition:	July	18^th, 19^th
Land Rover Day:	August	9^th
Heritage Open Days: Claymills by Night	September (7:00pm - 10:00pm)	12^th, 19^th

The Museum is also open for static viewing
• Thursdays (10:00am - 4:00pm)
• Saturdays (10:00am - 4:00pm)

Admission prices on Steaming Days: Adults £12.00; Concessions £10.00; Children 15 & under FREE (must be accompanied by a paying adult)
Admission prices for the Model Railway Exhibition: TBD
Admission to the Land Rover Day is by donation.
Admission on all other days is by donation. Car parking is free.
Bookings for steaming & exhibition days are not taken, please pay on arrival.
Visiting vintage vehicles & motorbikes will usually be admitted onto the site free of charge.
For Group visits and other special requirements, please contact us.

Guided tours

Non-steaming days: 11:00am & 1:00pm - meet in the Stokers Rest Café

Let our expert knowledgeable guides tell you all about the station, answer your questions and take you to a couple of special off-limits locations.

Steaming days

People sometimes wonder what's the difference between a Steaming Weekend, and static viewing. Static viewing you can do any time our double gates are open; we'll be happy to welcome you, let you wander round or give you a guided tour, but you won't see the thing that makes Claymills come alive; the engines working.

We raise steam 8 times a year; if there's a Bank Holiday, our weekend is Sunday and Monday, if not, plain old Saturday and Sunday. It takes 3 days of hard work by the boilermen and £1,000 worth of coal per day to raise that steam in our 30 ft Lancashire boilers - they've been known to appreciate visitors taking a hand at stoking!

The steam drives our Victorian workshop, all 4 five-storey-high beam engines that used to pump all the sewage and brewery waste away from Burton, (don't worry, we don't do that any more,) more than 25 other smaller ancillary stationary engines, our working dynamos, (the oldest in the country,) and even heats the water in our Victorian bath-house.

Whilst the boilermen are raising steam, the front of house team are preparing the children's activities, welcoming visiting exhibitors, and making sure that our Stoker's Rest café is well stocked with snacks and cakes.

You can stop for a cuppa and get a light meal before (or after) walking around the site taking in the sights, sounds and smells, (hissing steam, hot oil, our Whispering Giant beam engines,) and talking to our very knowledgeable volunteers, who, of course, are the ones who bring the place to life at a steaming.

Heritage Open Days

September 12^th, 19^th (7:00pm - 10:00pm) (Non-steaming)

Claymills is being opened at night to give the full experience of what it would have been like to work in a 24/7 operation. Experience our beam engines just as they would have been in 1885 in the gloom.

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Events in 2026

Steaming Days

(12:00pm - 8:00pm)Last admission - 7:00pm

(10:00am - 5:00pm)Last admission - 4:00pm

Open Days (non steaming)(10:00am - 5:00pm)

Guided tours

Steaming days

Heritage Open Days

GIVE A LITTLE, HELP A LOT BECOME A GIFT AID VISITOR

(12:00pm - 8:00pm)
Last admission - 7:00pm

(10:00am - 5:00pm)
Last admission - 4:00pm

Open Days (non steaming)
(10:00am - 5:00pm)

GIVE A LITTLE, HELP A LOT
BECOME A GIFT AID VISITOR