Susannah Hughes

This beach is endless and stunning, but the sand is very coarse. Take beach shoes. The sea was rough today and not suitable for swimming but you can go and jump the waves and sit in the coarse sand ... it will end up EVERYWHERE though.

Very quiet. I dont think it is always quiet, there was rubbish around sadly but an indication that it gets busy.

I came here 15 years ago and thought it was just a pile of broken trains. Now its awesome. Its all been tidied up, theres so much restored rolling stock and nice things to see. Clearly a lot of work has gone into it.

Lovely to ride on the railcar today. There is an awesome real ale bar and a burger stand in an old freight container. There is a massive playground and a miniature railway for kids, along with the short 15 min train rides. The website is well maintained and accurate. You can also sit in the carriage that James May was in when the museum was featured on Top Gear!

The national rail station is pretty much part of the museum. It must be one of the few rare places where national rail stops at a heritage railway, you literally walk into the heritage booking hall from the platform.

Lovely talking to the volunteers today as well.

Good well marked out paths. Suitable for a push chair.

A fallen tree was blocking one and we also found a lifebelt not in its correct place.

I dont see why you cant swim here. There is an adventure centre with canoes. If you fall out of the canoe, you are swimming!

Cheap, small museum which is good for kids. Doesn't take too long to go round so they are less likely to get bored and they had little explorer rucksacks. There were quite a few kid height exhibits with signs saying dont touch though, and given that they are kid height that is quite a lot to ask of a small child. There is a mummy which is proportionate in size to the museum. There are some very creepy dolls. Dont look them in the eye.