Dales Countryside Museum

Run by the National Park Authority, it tells the story of the people who have lived and worked in the Yorkshire Dales for over a 1,000 years.

[1] The basis of the museum was a collection of artefacts gathered by Marie Hartley, Ella Pontefract and Joan Ingilby.

[3] The museum's outdoor display includes a real steam train and carriages on the track bed of the former Wensleydale Railway.

Since 2015, part of the redundant station has been rented to a business operating a bike shop and later, also a cafe.

[4][5] The steam engine a Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Works No 7845 No.12 Current number 67345 0-6-0T was built in 1955 by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn to work at Hams Hall Power Station at Sutton Coldfield.