The Museum Curator, Barry Bull, has got together a number of London & North Western Railway Coal Invoices, all wagons starting their journey from Hednesford. These invoices are all dated from the late nineteenth century, and a variety of local pits sent their coal via Hednesford, a major distribution centre in those days, and for many more years, well into the 1950s.
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This first label is, in our opinion, the star of this collection. It dates from 1876 and covers a wagon of coal from Cannock Chase Colliery to Lyons Hall in Herefordshire. Addressed to Mr. Saxty, the Station Master at the time and with the old spelling of double ‘g’ in waggon. My thanks to Chris H.E.Smith of the Lyonshall.net website. (Well worth a visit)
The other Cannock Chase Colliery label is the later style from the early 1900s. There are others from Brereton Collieries, Cannock & Leacroft Colliery, Coppice Colliery, Conduit Colliery, Littleton Colliery and West Cannock Colliery.
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A few more photographs, taken by Robin Stewart-Smith, on the 28-4-2006, of a J94 Austerity locomotive No.68009 on works train.
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Our thanks to Robin for sending us these excellent photographs, taken at Chasewater Railway, on the causeway and at Chasewater Heaths Station.
On May 13th 2016 the Chasewater Railway Museum went ‘out on the road’ to the Museums at Night event, hosted by the Museum of Cannock Chase.
There were several other grooups there, including the Tamworth Aviation Group, Air Britain, Wedding Cars, and a group of Green Bus enthusiasts plus a display of vehicles outside. Also in the Museum was the ongoing exhibition ‘Transport of Delight’ by Chris Holloway – well worth a visit, running till June 19th.
The event was very well organised by the Museum of Cannock Chase, it just needed a little more public support. Perhaps the timing was not the best – 5.00pm till 8.00pm on a Friday evening, in retrospect, doesn’t seem ideal.
It was the Chasewater Railway Museum’s first event of the year and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Another good increase in visitor numbers, now that the Museum is open on Saturdays, manned by Marion and Godfrey, as well as Sundays and Bank Holidays.
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The latest addition to the Chasewater Railway Museum collection of Hornby ’0’ gauge is a slightly careworn and minus one buffer Pratts motor spirit tank wagon in green livery, representing the Anglo American Oil Company brand.
Reference to the New Cavendish publication in the Hornby Companion series shows that this particular example could only have been produced during the period 1923-1929, which means that it is the oldest ‘0’gauge Hornby wagon in the collection.
It came at the reasonable purchase price of £13.50
The Chasewater Railway Museum has maintained its status, first achieved in 2011, as a fully Accredited Museum, as awarded by Arts Council England.
The award of Full Accreditation is valid for approximately three years, at which point the museum will be invited to provide a return to demonstrate continuing compliance with the Accreditation Standard.
Thanks and congratulations to all who have helped maintain this standard during the past few years, and the museum looks forward to this support continuing in the future.
Our thanks also to our visitors – our efforts would be rather pointless without you.
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The Museum will be open on Sunday and Monday, and Thursday 31st March.
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