Museum visitors will be able to drive a locomotive for £5 this weekend. Visitors to the Rocks by Rail Museum near Oakham will be offered the chance to drive one of the museum’s Rolls Royce powered Sentinel locomotives.
The ‘Driver for a Fiver’ event is said to be the “last opportunity” of the year to take the controls. The museum itself is an “outdoor living museum” covering 19 acres of reclaimed quarry and railway tracks.
A spokesperson for the museum said it focused on the ironstone quarrying that was a “major part” of the area’s history, a spokesperson said. The museum showcases a fleet of steam and diesel locomotives and wagons linked to quarry railways in the East Midlands.
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Discover Rutland said this took visitors back “to the days before mass road transport when most minerals were carried by rail and quarries and had their own rail system”. The Sundew Cafe will be serving food and drinks including the “ever popular bacon cobs”, a museum spokesperson said.
The museum will be open from 10am until 4pm for the event on Sunday (October 6).
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