Tag Archives: Burntwood

Chasewater Railway Museum – Catalogue, CLR Archives

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

CLR Archives

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Chasewater Railway Archives 2020 XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – Carriage Prints

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

Carriage Prints

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997Picture Travel in 1875 C. Hamilton Ellis W4

997 Picture Travel in 1875 C. Hamilton Ellis W4

998Picture Travel in 1840 C. Hamilton Ellis W4

998 Picture Travel in 1840 C. Hamilton Ellis W4

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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – Carriage Equipment

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

Carriage Equipment

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Carriage Equipment 2020 XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum – One from the Canal

Chasewater Railway Museum 

One from the Canal

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This Birmingham Canal Navigations weigh plate, approximately 14″ in length, from a narrowboat has been in the museum for some years now, having been purchased by our curator, but we didn’t know much about it until we had a canal enthusiast visit the museum, who made a search and found the following details for us:

‘As regards the BCN plate 478 this boat was gauged at Smethwick on 2nd November 1922 it was a 71’1” long open wooden boat (I.e. it did not have a cabin) and was owned by Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd at Coombs Wood Tube Works at Halesowen and was their No.3.’

Our thanks to our visitor, canal enthusiast –   Martin O’Keeffe

Chasewater Railway Museum – February Newsletter

Chasewater Railway Museum 

February Newsletter

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Littleton Colliery Leaflet – Only 30 Years Ago

Littleton Colliery Leaflet 

Only 30 Years Ago

This leaflet has just come to light in our Archives section, I thought it is worthy of reproduction.  Such a lot has changed!

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Thirty years on what’s left is a school, a housing estate and an Information Board – plus lots of memories.

 

Chasewater Railway Museum – Busy Day!

Chasewater Railway Museum – Busy Day!

Considering that no trains were running yesterday (22-1-2017) we had quite a few items come into the museum, including this Rugley Powere Station nameplate from a Class 58 diesel locomotive.  This is with us on loan for 12 months.

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Other items included a Hornby ‘0’gauge clockwork model train set, 3 books on Walsall and another LNWR coal invoice, the coal coming from the Coppice Colliery, Norton Canes in 1892.

Chasewater Railway Museum – Catalogue, Cutlery

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

Cutlery

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Cutlery 2020 – XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Harry Hartill’s Country

Chasewater Railway Museum

Harry Hartill’s Country

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The Museum has been lucky enough to borrow, for a short time, a copy of this book by Harry Hartill.  This book has a passage of particular interest to us as it describes in some detail who drove the local engines of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company and where they travelled to around the local coalfields.  It is written in a sort of ‘chatty’ style which is very easy to read.

The Chasewater Railway Museum would dearly like a copy of this book for our own collection, so if anyone should have a copy which they would like to donate to the Museum, please get in touch.  email j.tisdale45@yahoo.com or phone 07786 323311.

Chasewater Railway Museum – January 2017 Newsletter

Chasewater Railway Museum

January 2017 Newsletter

A very busy time for the railway and the museum as far as visitors go, but not that much behind-the-scenes museum work during December.

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