Following the Government announcement that the final Covid related restrictions will not be lifted until a date in July, Rocks by Rail has carefully considered the safety of our volunteer staff and our visitors and has decided to delay re-opening. We had planned to re-open on 4 July but this will now be delayed until…

Because of the lockdown and related restrictions on assembly and travel associated with the coronavirus pandemic and consequential major delays to the museum’s work programme which led to the closure of the museum to visitors in 2020 it has been decided to include the postponed events in the revised programme for 2021. Forty one years…

The volunteer run museum Rocks by Rail is currently raising funds to purchase the last steam locomotive to haul ironstone in Rutland. Just over 50 years ago the steam locomotive named STAMFORD worked its final shift at Pilton Ironstone Quarry in June 1969 when the quarry finally closed. Initially purchased and preserved at the Bluebell…

The volunteer run Rocks by Rail – the Living Ironstone Museum situated near Cottesmore in Rutland has recently been notified that it is to be offered a grant of £9057 from the Governments Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Culture Recovery Fund to help the museum prepare for re-opening as the COVID 19 pandemic restrictions…