Armley Mills Industrial Museum

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The Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others.

The Grade II* listed building housing the Armley Mills museum was once the world's largest woollen mill. The current structures were built in 1805 by Benjamin Gott and closed as a commercial mill in 1969. They were taken over by Leeds City Council and reopened as a museum of industrial heritage in 1982.

1 Railway collection
- 1.1 Locomotives
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Railway collection

The museum has an extensive collection of narrow gauge railway rolling stock. The collection was started in 1956 when the Leeds City Museum acquired Barber from the recently closed Harrogate Gas Works Railway. A short display line is installed at Armley allowing some of the collection to run.

[edit] Locomotives

Name	Builder	Gauge	Type	Date	Notes
Barber	Thomas Green & Son	2 ft (610 mm)	0-6-2T	1908	ex Harrogate Gas Works Railway. Acquired 1956. Currently on long-term loan to the South Tynedale Railway
Jack	Hunslet Engine Company	18 in (457 mm)	0-4-0WT		Acquired 1957
Lord Granby	Hudswell Clarke	3 ft (914 mm)	0-4-0ST		Acquired 1961
Junin	Hudswell Clarke	2 ft 6 in (762 mm)	2-6-2DM	1930	The world's first commercially built diesel locomotive