Bristol Events Calendar

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This guide lists events at a glance, showing what’s on each month. See the highlights of What’s On for Bristol, featuring the best of things to do in Bristol – Live Music and Gigs, Family Events, Art & Culture, Food & Drink and much more. Bristol fundraisers and charity events.

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Fascinating and free exhibition train

Name: Fascinating and free exhibition train
Start: 2026-03-23T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-29T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Bristol Temple Meads station

23 March @ 10:00 am - 29 March @ 5:00 pm

Free

An exhibition inside a train is heading to Bristol – and it’s totally free to visit.

Co-curated with the National Railway Museum and packed full of interactive exhibits and amazing stories, ‘Inspiration’ reveals how railways transformed the world.

It includes a fascinating look at railway firsts, hands-on engineering challenges and a whistle-stop tour of interesting – and lesser-known – careers on the railways. 

More than 60,000 have already visited Inspiration on its 60-stop, year-long tour of Britain and 9 in 10 would recommend it to a friend. 

Inspiration is part of Railway 200, the national campaign celebrating two centuries of the modern railway. Thousands of events across the UK and the world have celebrated a British innovation that revolutionised travel, supercharged economies and enabled mass tourism, sports leagues and the standardisation of time. 