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.
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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.
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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.
Archive material donated by John Hawkins
Two very nice carriage keys have come into the museum in the last couple of days. 
The first one is stamped ‘LB&SCR’ – from the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway.
The second one ‘L&NE’ from the London & North Eastern Railway, the handle is in the shape of a claw-hammer. I’ve not seen one like this before!
They can be seen in the museum, in display cabinet C17.
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The months certainly seem to fly by – it will soon be time to write the Christmas newsletter – Liam will tell you how many days to go, if Godfrey doesn’t beat him to it!!
The ‘already described’ items include a couple of fliers, and photographs and three Hornby models.
Also we had a bottle from Lockett & Sons of Cannock, complete with marble in the neck.
Our Curator has been busy again, acquiring 3 new (to us) Hornby ‘0’ gauge model wagons.
The first one is a Hopper Wagon, with its box.
The next one is a Lowfit wagon, with cable drum and box.
The final one is a ‘Pool’ Tank Wagon, this time without its box.
They are all in the museum, in Display Cabinet 2.
I have been sent this photograph of one of our ‘helpers’ inside the museum, working on one of the Meccano models. It shows a view around part of the museum, including, among other items, some bridge plates and the lever frame from Hemyock.
This photo was taken before the bench was recovered – it is now covered in an attractive blue material.
Sad to relate, after all our man’s work, it still wouldn’t float!!!
This time it’s a Railwayana Fair and Bus Rally, held at the time, in the early eighties, when Chasewater railway was not running trains.
A few enthusiasts kept going at Chasewater trying to raise funds for the time when the railway re-started operations.
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