In regards to local councils in 2000 Derry City Council closed the Foyle Valley Railway and Museum down to save 6,000£ per year. Since then the Council in Derry has spent tens of thousands of pounds on a series of feasibility projects which went nowhere. Now the whole Museum and its unique collection has been handed over to a local disability charity
Despite various promises the Museum remains closed but they have deliberately lost their museum accreditation status.