Tag Archives: Chasewater Railway Museum

Chasewater Railway Catalogue – North Staffs Railway

Chasewater Railway Catalogue

North Staffs Railway

 North Staffs Railway Items in our Collection

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NSR 2020 XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue Archives – North Eastern Railway

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

North Eastern Railway Collection

 North Eastern Railway items in our Collection

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NE 2020 XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – Archives – Great Northern Railway

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

Archives – Great Northern Railway

Archives from the Great Northern Railway in our Collection

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GN Archives 2020  XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Another New Acquisition

Chasewater Railway Museum 

Another New Acquisition

A recent invitation to Shugborough Hall to view various Staffordshire Museum Services items in store has resulted in several items finding their way to Chasewater, either on loan or as outright gifts.

From a locomotive enthusiast point of view, the star would be the nameplate ‘Glenalmond’.  The locomotive was an 0-4-0ST with 14”x 22” outside cylinders and 3’ 5” wheels.

One of just four locos steam built by and for service at Shelton Iron & Steel Co., Stoke-on-Trent and new in 1912.  The name is taken from the Scottish seat of Lord Faringdon, a Managing Director of the Company.

Lord Faringdon was a one-time Chairman of the Great Central Railway who also named one of their 4-6-0s ’Glenalmond’.

The Shelton ‘Glenalmond’ affectionately known as ‘Gleny’ was built to an Andrew Barclay design with a boiler supplied by Bagnalls Castle Engine Works, Stafford.

The loco lasted in service almost 60 years, being unused from early 1970 and sadly cut up in 1972.

Our thanks go to Chris Copp, Chasewater Railway Museum’s Mentor, for arranging the loan of the nameplate.    (Compiled by Barry Bull)

Photograph courtesy of Pete Stamper.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – A New Acquisition

Chasewater Railway Museum 

A New Acquisition

Refurbished outdoor-type bench given to the railway by Mr.George Clark in memory of his wife, Christine.  There are no makers’ marks on the bench, but it may have been on the London, Tilbury and Southend Line at some point. This bench will replace the one which has been on the platform for some years and will now be refurbished by the same man who refurbished the bench in the museum, courtesy of Godfrey and Marion’s Bench Fund. When completed, this bench will be found a home inside at one of the stations.

A very nice inscription on the plaque

‘Look for me in rainbows’

Lovely

 

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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – London & North Western Railway Objects

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

London & North Western Railway Objects

 

Some pics of LNWR objects in our museum collection.  More photos will be added later.

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LNWR Objects 2020 XL Files

 

 

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – Great Western Railway Archives

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue 

Great Western Railway Archives

There is a considerable number of paper items, invoices, reports in the museum collection, this is a list of items from the Great Western Railway.

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GWR Archives 2020 XL Files

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Chasewater Railway Museum June 2017 Newsletter

Chasewater Railway Museum

June 2017 Newsletter

The visitor numbers for May were a little lower than in recent years at 1,584.

We’ve received some very nice items during May, not least from former local residents Sue and Diana Windsor. Sue sent the following email:

Daphne and Sue Windsor in the museum.

‘My grandfather Albert Edward Rose was a train driver in the collieries and I have some photos of trains at Fair Lady Pit Heath Hayes, Conduit Pit, photos of my grandad and other work colleagues on the engines. There are a few old newspaper cuttings about the history of the local collieries. There is also a letter from the then Prime Minister, Mr Attlee sent to the coal workers dated Jan 1951 asking them to work harder due to the threat of a coal shortage and finally a postcard in memory of the men who lost their lives in the Grove Pit disaster of 1930.

The museum was delighted to accept the offer.

 

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The following item is a very well put together scrapbook of photos and postcards donated by Mrs D.Lawton in memory of Mr.K.Lawton, who had a footplate ride when very ill and Mr.M.J.Layland.

These two items were given to the museum by one of the very early members of the Railway, Laurence Hodgkinson, now, of course, at Amerton Railway.  The first item is an LNWR ticket rack and the second, a poster board heading from Hednesford.

Our Curator, Barry Bull, donated a fine LNWR pay check from Camden.

David Bathurst donated his collection of Chasewater Railway mugs to add to our ever-increasing catalogue of railway –related items.

 

 

 

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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – Vehicle Components

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue 

Vehicle Components

Quite a large number of items in this category – all sorts of stuff from many different manufacturers

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Vehicle Components 2020 XL Files

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The original ‘Alfred Paget’ – Newspaper cutting from Sue & Diana Windsor

The original ‘Alfred Paget’

Newspaper cutting from Sue & Diana Windsor

The original ‘Alfred Paget’  0-4-2ST No.204/1861, acquired new by the Cannock Chase Colliery Company, scrapped by NCB at Chasetown circa 1952.  ‘Paget’ was the family name of the Marquis of Anglesey, one of the major land-owners in the district, and Chasewater Railway has kept the name – now on a Neilson engine.

‘Alfred Paget’ – the Neilson version.- 2937-1882 0-4-0ST,