Leeds Industrial Museum

Armley Mills Industrial Museum.

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. The buildings were taken over by Leeds City Council and reopened as a museum of industrial heritage in 1982.

Steam Collection

A Steam engine is in the collection

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Industrial collection

Several exhibits relating to Road building built by Local companies are in the collection.

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Railway collection

The museum has an extensive collection of standard gauge and 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.

Locomotives

Name	Builder	Gauge	Type	Date	Works number	Photo	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			to add	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	D557	to add	300 hp McLaren engine. most powerfull diesel locomotive when built for use in Chile
Southam 2	Hudswell Clarke	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)	0-4-0DM	1942	D625		Ex-Rugby Cement, Southam, Warwickshire
Cheetal	John Fowler & Co	2 ft  (610 mm)	0-6-0	1923	sn 15991		Built for India
---	Hudswell Clark	2 ft 11 in (889 mm)	0-4-0	1932	D571 - Diesel tractor	to add	Worked in a quarry nr Skipton till 1960s
---	Hunslet	unknown	0-4-0	1971	Prototype	to add	Prototype Electric loco built for South African subsidiary
Trecwn	Hunslet	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)	0-4-0	1941	Diesel Shunter no. 2390	to add	Built for War Department depot in Wales
Elizabeth	Hudswell Clarke	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)	0-4-0	1958	Tank loco	to add	Worked till 1978 in Esholt sewage works running on wool grease
---	Robert Hudson	3 ft  (914 mm)	0-4-0	1929	Petrol tractor (now Diesel)	to add	Fordson Model N based ex Stanton & Staveley slate quarry
---	Hunslet(built)	2 ft  (610 mm)	0-4-0	1944	Diesel tactor	to add	Marketed by Robert Hudson, sold to War Dept
Capper Pass	John Fowler & Co.	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)	0-4-0	1937	sn 22060		Shunter - worked at Capper Pass & Sons tin smelter till 1980
---	Hunslet	unknown	0-4-0	1971	Prototype	to add	Prototype Electric loco built for South African subsidiary

Other engines exist in the yard behind the shed but identities unclear with several mine locos as well as full size examples half hidden in the under growth

See also

• British narrow gauge railways

References

• Thomas, Cliff (2002). The Narrow Gauge in Britain & Ireland. Atlantic Publishers. ISBN 1-902827-05-8. 

External links

• Official web site
• Images of England record for Armley Mills