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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – London and North Western Railway Archives

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – London and North Western Railway Archives

Lots more paperwork, this time from the London & North Western Railway

Click on the link below to see the full list

LNWR Archives 2020 XL Files

Caption text – object number, name, description and location in the museum.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Armistice Day

Chasewater Railway Museum 

Armistice Day

The Chasewater Railway Museum is proud to have two Books of Remembrance and two Rolls of Honour to commemorate some of the Railwaymen who lost their lives in the Service of their Country.

The Books  of Remembrance are from the London & North Western Railway, and the Midland Railway.

The Rolls of Honour are from the Barry Railway and the North Staffordshire Railway.

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We salute all men and women who lost their lives in the Service of their Country.

Chasewater Railway Museum – a small addition

Chasewater Railway Museum 

  A small addition

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A small addition to the Chasewater Railway Museum collection is a nickel button of slightly unusual origin being of both military and railway interest.

The 2nd Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway) Volunteer Corps was formed in 1887 of employeesof the locomotive department of the London and North Western Railway and who became involved in active service during the Boer War up until 1901.  The Corps was disbanded in 1912.

The button bears the script initials VR with Volunteer Engineers in a garter surround with a crown above.

Chasewater Railway Museum Artefacts.

Chasewater Railway Museum

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No. 1909 – Cabinet 17

The latest object to be put on display in the museum is a medallion issued by the London & North Western Railway in commemoration of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887.

The obverse depicts the Queen’s head with the reverse announcing the dedication of Queen’s Park, Crewe being presented to the town in the same year.  The LNWR is also shown in the outline of the 3,000th locomotive built at Crewe.

The medallion hangs on a pressed brass brooch of the LNWR crest, measuring 1¼” x 1¼”.  The round medallion is 1½” in diameter.

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