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This time the Neilson – 2937/1882 carrying the ‘Alfred Paget ‘ nameplates – heading a freight train of wagons in various liveries (including rust!), with the Cannock Chase Colliery brake van – affectionally known as the ‘slum’ bringing up the rear.

CCCC Brake Van

This brake van has now fallen into major disrepair, with the chassis collapsing and breaking the sole bars. The interior of the van still remains dry. It has had a few coats of paint over the years, but, as the last known item of rolling stock which actually ran on the line in the mine-working years, it seems a shame that more cannot be done to restore it.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – A locally built loco.

Posted on November 2, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

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A locally built loco.

A photograph from our collection of one of the locomotives which worked in the area and was actually built here!

No.7 Birch 2-4-0T Built at Rawnsley in 1888 but not put to work till 1890. Worked at Brereton 1949/50. Scrapped at Brereton circa 1956.

This next picture shows the loco well past its best – very sad.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – A long time ago on the Causeway!

Posted on November 1, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

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A long time ago on the Causeway!

Asbestos with the Maryport & Carlisle Coach and GW brake van

I think that it could have been taken from the path from Norton East Road, or is it at the other end of the causeway? Looking on the right-hand side over the causeway, a sailing boat can be seen, so that can’t be Jeffrey’s Swag.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Chasewater Wastelands!

Posted on October 31, 2015 by John D | 2 comments

Chasewater Railway Museum

Chasewater Wastelands!

An early photograph of Chasewater Railway – a lot of work has been done since!!

We think that this is the area approaching what is now Chasewater Heaths Station – it’s changed a bit!! Probably taken in the late 60s/early 70s.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Photo info please?

Posted on October 30, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Photo info please?

This is a photo in our collection but we don’t know anything about it except what it says underneath. Does anyone have any idea where on the Chase this 2 ft. gauge railway was? Or the identity of Colonel Wilson?

When the ground was being prepared for the Chasewater Heaths Station, rails of different gauges were uncovered, but we don’t know any more than that.

Latest information, from Phillip Halfpenny: It’s a Manning Wardle, No. 1371/1897. At Great Wyrley Colliery, rebuilt in 1911, scrapped in 1944. Thanks to Phillip.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – A photo from abroad.

Posted on October 28, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

A photo from abroad.

In 2012 the museum received a photograph with a note from Tony Potter in Canada. These are reproduced below:

Many thanks to Tony Potter.

The Cannock Chase Colliery Co. bought 5 engines from the Beyer Peacock Company between 1856 and 1872. These were all saddle tanks with an 0-4-2 wheel arrangement favoured by the CCCC.

McClean
The first loco was named ‘McClean’ after the founder of the company and was number 28 of 1856, acquired new. Worked at the Coppice Colliery in 1949 and finally scrapped by the NCB at Chasetown in 1956 – 100 years old.

The others were : Chawner’, McClean’s partner, ‘Alfred Paget’ (Paget was the family name of the Marquis of Anglesey. This was not the Neilson at Chasewater Railway, but the name was saved), ‘Brown’ – named after the Manager and Chief Engineer around the late 1860s, and ‘Anglesey’

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Building the Heritage Centre

Posted on October 23, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Building the Heritage CentrE

This photo by David Bathurst

The final selection in the collection of photographs given the the Chasewater Railway Museum by the family of Arthur (Jim) Higgins. Thank you.

These 14 photos were taken in 2003 and cover the erection and cladding of the Heritage centre at Chasewater Railway.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – On to Chasewater Heaths Station

Posted on October 21, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

On to Chasewater Heaths Station

With more of Jim Higgins’ photos

With Brownhills West Station up and running it was time to concentrate on the other end of the line, and Chasewater Heaths Station in particular.

This was also the time when I joined the Railway – the station walls were about knee high the first time I saw it!

I met Steve Organ to see what use I could be just as he was about to take a works train from Brownhills West to Chasewater Heaths with building materials and a large drum of water – there was no running water on site at that time, it was all taken by rail!

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Chasewater Railway Museum – the new Brownhills West Station in use

Posted on October 18, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

The new Brownhills West Station in use

Between September 2000 and September 2001 an enormous amount of work was done on the Chasewater Railway, from the old station being closed and demolished to make way for the M6 Toll Road to the new station being open for business!

Well done everyone involved, especially, as far as this blog is concerned, photographer Jim Higgins.

Now on to Chasewater Heaths!

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Chasewater Railway Museum

More wide open spaces!

Taken from a collection by Laurence Hodgkinson in 1966.

Bleak or what!

Steam Railway??

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Another photo on the Causeway

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A locally built loco.

A photograph from our collection of one of the locomotives which worked in the area and was actually built here!

No.7 Birch 2-4-0T Built at Rawnsley in 1888 but not put to work till 1890. Worked at Brereton 1949/50. Scrapped at Brereton circa 1956.

This next picture shows the loco well past its best – very sad.

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A long time ago on the Causeway!

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Chasewater Wastelands!

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Photo info please?

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A photo from abroad.

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Building the Heritage CentrE

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On to Chasewater Heaths Station

With more of Jim Higgins’ photos

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The new Brownhills West Station in use

Now on to Chasewater Heaths!

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