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Bressingham Steam & Gardens is a steam museum and gardens located at Bressingham (adjacent to a Wyevale garden centre), west of Diss in Norfolk, England. The site has several narrow gauge rail lines and a number of types of steam engines and vehicles in its collection and is also the home of the national ''Dad's Army'' exhibition.〔(Dads Army exhibition ) Retrieved 7 May 2009〕 ==The Gardens== The gardens were established by Alan Bloom MBE at Bressingham Hall. He moved to Bressingham in 1946, after selling his previous site at Oakington in Cambridgeshire to raise the capital for the in Norfolk, where he hoped to be both a farmer and a nurseryman.〔''Steam Engines at Bressingham'', (1976), Alan Bloom, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-10867-9〕 He was a plant expert of international renown, particularly in the field of hardy perennials. He laid out the Dell garden with its well-known island beds. His son, Adrian Bloom, laid out the Foggy Bottom garden. Much of the site is given over to commercial horticulture. There is a garden centre on the site, trading as Blooms of Bressingham, although the nurseries themselves are not open to the public. Bressingham Gardens and Steam Museum is an independent charitable trust. Alan Bloom had wanted to create his own trust in 1967, to ensure that the collection would not be disbursed to pay for death duties, but the laws of the time made this difficult, and after five years of negotiation, the museum was nearly handed over to the Transport Trust. However, the legislation governing private museums was relaxed just before the handover in 1971, and Bloom was able to create his own Trust and thus retain control of it because the collection was of historical and educational importance.〔 ===The Narrow Gauge Lines=== There are three railway lines which take visitors around the gardens: *The Garden Railway - gauge miniature railway. The railway's passenger trains are operated by steam locomtive ''Alan Bloom'', which was constructed along with the railway. *The Nursery Railway - narrow gauge railway. Three steam locomotives are based on the Nursery Railway. Quarry Hunslet 0-4-0ST''George Sholto'' (built in 1909 and last overhauled in 2011) and 0-4-0PT ''Bevan'' (constructed at Bressingham in 2009) make up the operating fleet whilst 1883 built Quarry Hunslet 0-4-0ST ''Gwynedd'' is being overhauled. *The Waveney Valley Railway - gauge miniature railway. The passenger trains are operated by 2-6-2T ''St Christopher'' (constructed by the Exmoor Railway in 2001). 1937 built Dusseldorf 4-6-2s ''Mannertreu'' and ''Rosenkavalier'' await attention. The site also contains a short standard gauge section of track and standard gauge footplate rides are sometimes available to visitors. During 2013, a circular track of dual gauge and gauge was under construction. Once completed, there will be a total of six different gauges at Bressingham. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bressingham Steam and Gardens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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