This place is fantastic amazing, a wonderful gem, helpful enthusiast and informative volunteers. I would love to visit more often if I lived nearer.

Incredibly friendly & welcoming museum, with the best hands-on tutorial on signal interlocking u could wish for.

Went as part of a private group. The place is amazing. A treasure trove of items, photos and records relating to local railways and the wider network. Beautiful model locomotives.

Visited on Saturday the 5th July with our little boy who loves trains. Very friendly and informative gentlemen guided us around the different areas of the museum, they were a font of knowledge. We all learned a lot and would recommend railway enthusiasts to visit.

I had a lovely time at Coleford GWR Museum yesterday, looking at the exhibits and chatting with the staff there. I'm a volunteer at the Mid Hants Railway and they are both volunteers at the Dean Forest Railway, so it was interesting to compare notes on railway operations during the COVID-19 pandemic! I'd love to give more stars, but I feel there's a lot of work to be done. The volunteers I chatted to are aware of this, so it's no discredit to them. Given the fantastic location (both in terms of being so close to the town centre and being in such a wonderful original building), there's a great opportunity for a really accessible museum which tells the story of the railway and its relevance to the area to a wide audience. What they actually have is unquestionably an impressive collection - both in terms of its size and variety -, but much of it is chiefly interesting if you already know what you're looking at and what was used for. So much more could - and should - be done to explain these items in accessible terms. To transform this from a collection into a really good museum would, of course, be an enormous amount of work, and the volunteers here are obviously working with very limited resources. I hope they get some more volunteers and are able to keep heading in the right direction. Thank-you for an enjoyable visit. Keep up the good work!