Defunct Heritage Railways in England

• Ashford Steam Centre, Willesborough, Kent – closed in 1976.
• Abbey Light Railway, Kirkstall, West Yorkshire – closed in 2012.
• Brockham Railway Museum, Dorking, Surrey – closed 1982 (Stock moved to Amberley Museum Railway, West Sussex)
• Bolebroke Castle Miniature Railway, East Sussex – closed 2012
• Buxton Steam Centre, Derbyshire – closed in 1987, as Peak Rail moved to Darley Dale.
• Cadeby Light Railway, Cadeby, Leicestershire – closed in 2005.
• Chester Zoo monorail, Chester Zoo, Chester
• Creekmoor Light Railway, Poole, Dorset – closed in 1973
• Dinting Railway Centre, Derbyshire – closed in 1991, (Society moved to Ingrow (West) station on the KWVR, West Yorkshire.)
• Dowty Railway Centre, Ashchurch, Gloucestershire – closed in the 1980s
• Eastbourne Tramway, East Sussex – closed 1969, (moved to Seaton, Devon)
• Electric Railway Museum, Warwickshire - closed in October 2017, (rolling stock relocated to other preserved railways across the UK).
• Finmere railway station, Buckinghamshire (stock relocated after the land was developed for HS2).
• Great Yorkshire Railway Preservation Society, Starbeck, North Yorkshire – closed in 1989 (Group moved to Murton, near York, to restore part of the former Derwent Valley Light Railway)
• Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, Humberston, Lincolnshire – closed 1985 - Rebuilt 2009 in Skegness.
• Markeaton Park Light Railway, Rowsley, Derbyshire - closed in 2016, track lifted in 2017.
• Marwell Wildlife Railway, Hampshire - closed in 2021 and track lifted by end of 2022.
• Museum of British Transport, Clapham, South London – closed in 1973. Some exhibits moved first to Syon Park, West London and subsequently to Covent Garden to form London Transport Museum. Some exhibits moved to N.R.M. York.
• North Downs Steam Railway, Dartford, Kent – closed in 1995 (society merged with Spa Valley Railway)
• North Woolwich Old Station Museum, East London – closed in 2008
• Queen Mary's Hospital Miniature Railway, Carshalton, South London - Closed in 1997
• Ramsgate Tunnel Railway, Ramsgate, Kent – closed in 1965
• Snibston Railway, Coalville, Leicestershire – closed on 31 July 2015 (as with the Discovery Museum, itself)
• Southport Pier Tramway, Southport, Merseyside - closed 2015
• Southport Railway Museum, Southport, Lancashire – closed in 1999 (Society moved to Preston Docks as the Ribble Steam Railway).
• Stevington & Turvey Light Railway, Turvey, Bedfordshire – private site - closed in 2014.
• Transperience, Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire – closed in 1997
• Wells Harbour Railway, in Norfolk - closed in 2021
• Westerham Valley Railway Association, Westerham, Kent – closed 1965 (merged with Kent and East Sussex Railway Preservation Society with a few items of stock transferred to KWVR.)