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Chasewater Railway Museum – The Eric Tonks Collection

Posted on October 29, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

The Eric Tonks Collection

Belonging to the Industrial Railway Society

This was first posted in June, 2009. Since then, the Industrial Railway Society has renewed the loan on 2 occasions.

The collection has been on display in one of the museum cases for some time, so if anyone would like to see it, pop into the museum, open every Sunday and Bank Holiday and now also on most Saturdays when the Railway is running trains.

Ironstone cropped

Chasewater Railway Museum is delighted to announce that the Industrial Railway Society has loaned the Eric Tonks Collection of nameplates and worksplates to the Museum for at least the next two years.

The collection comprises examples of plates from both standard and narrow gauge locomotiveswhich worked in collieries and ironstone quarries, principally in the East Midlands.

A small number of these items will be on show this coming weekend, Asbestos’ Birthday, and more in another couple of weeks at the 50th Anniversary Celebrations. We hope to have the entire collection on display in the Autumn.

2 worksplates cropped

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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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Tagged Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Burntwood, Cannock, Cannock Wood, Chasewater Railway Museum, Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Hazel Slade, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Lichfield, McClean, Norton Canes, Pelsall, Steam Trains, Walsall, Walsall Wood, Wolverhampton

Chasewater Railway Museum – First published June 26th 2009

Posted on October 26, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

First published June 26th 2009 – There’s been a lot of comings and goings since then, so Maybe have another look!!

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At last it’s happened – all the cases have lighting.

No more watching our visitors pressing their noses to the glass to see what we have in our collection. What a relief!

Our latest addition is a model of a locomotive boiler, based on a Royal Scot class loco. 849

Another of our newer items is a local warning sign, originally from the top of Ironstone Road, from the level crossing above the ‘Rag’ public house. 652

One other local item is the train staff for the single line from Walsall Wood colliery to Norton Junction on the LNWR. It’s the black one at the front.

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Our museum is well worth a visit, so why not come along? It’s free!

In a couple of weeks, 12th July, (2009) we shall be holding our model railway exhibition, and there will be one layout in the museum.

Next on the agenda, as far as I am concerned, is a laptop for museum use. Life would be so much easier. One has been promised, but when………?

We did get one shortly afterwards (not new) but now, in 2015, it is approaching complete knackered-up-ness!!

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Tagged Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Burntwood, Cannock, Cannock Chase, Cannock Wood, Chasewater Railway Museum, Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Lichfield, Norton Canes, Pelsall, Walsall, Walsall Wood, Wolverhampton

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 – A couple of new items

Posted on October 20, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

A couple of new items

I suppose that should be ‘old’!

Firstly, a round enamelled badge 1″ diameter. London & North Eastern Railway St Andrews Ambulance Association.

Another LNE item – an oval cast iron wagon or parcels van plate. Dukinfield 1927. Size: 6.5″x 4.375″

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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 – Station finished outside, now to go inside!

Posted on October 16, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Station finished outside, now to go inside!

Now that the new Brownhills West Station was pretty much finished on the outside, it was time for the plasterers, chippies and painters to get going on the inside!

Fortunately for us, Jim Higgins was there with his camera.

: Ticket window before plastering

: Ticket window after plastering

: Down the passage

: The other view of the passage

: Buffet before plastering

: Partly plastered

: Ticket window in place

: Buffet plastered

: Booking Hall from the platform

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Chasewater Railway Museum – More photos – station built!

Posted on October 15, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

More photos – station built!

Another 9 photos of the new station at Brownhills West.

A selection showing the building of the new station from scaffold to external completion.

But there’s still a fair bit to do inside! That’s for the next selection.

: Steve Organ, project manager on left.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – More from the Photograph Collection

Posted on October 13, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

More from the Photograph Collection

The first three photos in this selection show what a mess was left when the old station came down. What to do about it – stick a motorway through it! It didn’t quite happen that way, more like – shift your railway so we can build a motorway!

The fourth photo shows a line put in to move the rolling stock from the old depot to the new one., as shown in the next two photos.

The final three show the beginings of the new Brownhills West station and yard.

Our thanks again to the family of Arthur (Jim) Higgins for giving this collection to the Chasewater Railway Museum.Old Brownhills West,New Brownhills West staion,

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Chasewater Railway Museum

The Eric Tonks Collection

Belonging to the Industrial Railway Society

This was first posted in June, 2009. Since then, the Industrial Railway Society has renewed the loan on 2 occasions.

The collection has been on display in one of the museum cases for some time, so if anyone would like to see it, pop into the museum, open every Sunday and Bank Holiday and now also on most Saturdays when the Railway is running trains.

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A photo from abroad.

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First published June 26th 2009 – There’s been a lot of comings and goings since then, so Maybe have another look!!

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At last it’s happened – all the cases have lighting.

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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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A couple of new items

I suppose that should be ‘old’!

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The new Brownhills West Station in use

Now on to Chasewater Heaths!

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Station finished outside, now to go inside!

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More photos – station built!

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More from the Photograph Collection

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