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Chasewater Railway Museum – Help Required!

Posted on August 16, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum 

Help Required!

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Which Loco?

Lot 385 in the Great Central Auction at Bloxham on August 8th 2015 and described there as a wagon plate is actually an overhaul plate from the former NCB Workshops, Bestwood, Notts.

Acquired on behalf of the Chasewater Railway Museum, the brass plate is oval in shape, approx. 12″x 8″ with cast in lettering No.6  A.C.W.   E.M.D.  Overhauled with date stamped Nov. 1962.

Research using the Industrial Railway Society Handbook for Nottinghamshire leads to three possible locos which may have carried this particular plate (on the bunker side), these being locos named Valerie, Peter or Phillip – but which??

Maybe someone can help?

j.tisdale45@yahoo.com

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Chasewater Railway Museum News, Miners’ ‘Get Together’

Posted on February 18, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum News

Miners’ ‘Get Together’

 

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Three items given to the Museum by Barry Lycett, commemorating 40 years of the  miners’ “Get Together”.

Commemorative Folder

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Also, two tokens in the form of key rings (the Museum was given two so that both sides could be shown in the display cabinet, see above), these items were given to all who attended the ‘Get Together’.

As can be seen in the acknowledgments, Chasewater Railway made a donation to the raffle/auction prizes, I believe in the form of two family tickets for the Railway

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Commemorating the 40th Annual miners’ “Get Together”, started at West Cannock No.5 Colliery in 1974

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Chasewater Railway Museum, Another couple of items of interest, An NCB Belt and a Walsall Steam Railway Booklet

Posted on December 15, 2014 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum,

Another couple of items of interest

The first item is a welcome addition to our collection of mining memorobelia, a leather belt with the initials ‘NCB’ stamped on it.

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This was kindly donated by Rob Duffill.

The second item is a booklet about the Walsall Steam Raiway, which was found in a collection of old magazines given to the museum by Clive Smith, a long-time friend of the museum.

This was very coincidental as only about three weeks ago, our man Godfrey had found a couple of references to this railway an an old narrow gauge magazine!

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From the booklet:

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A couple of interesting links:

http://walsallsteamrailway.webs.com/

The following link was about a show in the Arboretum:

http://chasewaterstuff.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/a-bit-from-the-scrapbook/

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Chasewater Railway Museum – an interesting letter.

Posted on June 18, 2014 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum – an interesting letter.

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The Chasewater Railway Museum has been given a letter dated 1957 from the Cannock & Rugeley Collieries in reply to Mr. H.C.Casserley’s request for permission to visit the Colliery for photographing the locos, etc.
Mr. Casserley was a very highly regarded railway photographer who had many books published.

The letter was kindly donated to the Museum by Mr. Debens.

B15 Birch C & R 6-5-1946 H.C.Casserley
This was not to be his first visit to the Colliery as we have in our collection a photo taken by Mr. Casserley of the CRC loco ‘Birch’ dated 1946!

The coal industry was nationalised in 1947.

 

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Museum Archive – Additions to our coal mining memorabilia

Posted on May 31, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Museum Archive

Additions to our coal mining memorabilia

As you are no doubt aware, without the coal industry there would be no Chasewater Railway, as the original line was built  for transporting coal, although passenger services were introduced from Brownhills to Aldridge via Walsall Wood.  We are always glad to receive artefacts from the mining industry to display in the Museum.

Baths Invitation

The latest of such items to come our way are an invitation to the opening of the Pithead Baths at Wyrley No. 3 Colliery, Great Wyrley, on August 14th, 1954, and The Bather’s Handbook.

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These items came to the Museum from a former employee of the Colliery, his first job after National Service with the RAF.

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