Asbestos with the Maryport & Carlisle Coach and GW brake van
I think that it could have been taken from the path from Norton East Road, or is it at the other end of the causeway? Looking on the right-hand side over the causeway, a sailing boat can be seen, so that can’t be Jeffrey’s Swag.
An early photograph of Chasewater Railway – a lot of work has been done since!!
We think that this is the area approaching what is now Chasewater Heaths Station – it’s changed a bit!! Probably taken in the late 60s/early 70s.
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This is a photo in our collection but we don’t know anything about it except what it says underneath. Does anyone have any idea where on the Chase this 2 ft. gauge railway was? Or the identity of Colonel Wilson?
When the ground was being prepared for the Chasewater Heaths Station, rails of different gauges were uncovered, but we don’t know any more than that.
Latest information, from Phillip Halfpenny: It’s a Manning Wardle, No. 1371/1897. At Great Wyrley Colliery, rebuilt in 1911, scrapped in 1944. Thanks to Phillip.
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Chasewater Railway Museum is delighted to announce that the Industrial Railway Society has loaned the Eric Tonks Collection of nameplates and worksplates to the Museum for at least the next two years.
The collection comprises examples of plates from both standard and narrow gauge locomotiveswhich worked in collieries and ironstone quarries, principally in the East Midlands.
A small number of these items will be on show this coming weekend, Asbestos’ Birthday, and more in another couple of weeks at the 50th Anniversary Celebrations. We hope to have the entire collection on display in the Autumn.
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In 2012 the museum received a photograph with a note from Tony Potter in Canada. These are reproduced below:
Many thanks to Tony Potter.
The Cannock Chase Colliery Co. bought 5 engines from the Beyer Peacock Company between 1856 and 1872. These were all saddle tanks with an 0-4-2 wheel arrangement favoured by the CCCC.
McClean
The first loco was named ‘McClean’ after the founder of the company and was number 28 of 1856, acquired new. Worked at the Coppice Colliery in 1949 and finally scrapped by the NCB at Chasetown in 1956 – 100 years old.
The others were : Chawner’, McClean’s partner, ‘Alfred Paget’ (Paget was the family name of the Marquis of Anglesey. This was not the Neilson at Chasewater Railway, but the name was saved), ‘Brown’ – named after the Manager and Chief Engineer around the late 1860s, and ‘Anglesey’
No more watching our visitors pressing their noses to the glass to see what we have in our collection. What a relief!
Our latest addition is a model of a locomotive boiler, based on a Royal Scot class loco. 
Another of our newer items is a local warning sign, originally from the top of Ironstone Road, from the level crossing above the ‘Rag’ public house.
One other local item is the train staff for the single line from Walsall Wood colliery to Norton Junction on the LNWR. It’s the black one at the front.
Our museum is well worth a visit, so why not come along? It’s free!
In a couple of weeks, 12th July, (2009) we shall be holding our model railway exhibition, and there will be one layout in the museum.
Next on the agenda, as far as I am concerned, is a laptop for museum use. Life would be so much easier. One has been promised, but when………?
We did get one shortly afterwards (not new) but now, in 2015, it is approaching complete knackered-up-ness!!
This photo by David Bathurst
The final selection in the collection of photographs given the the Chasewater Railway Museum by the family of Arthur (Jim) Higgins. Thank you.
These 14 photos were taken in 2003 and cover the erection and cladding of the Heritage centre at Chasewater Railway.
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With Brownhills West Station up and running it was time to concentrate on the other end of the line, and Chasewater Heaths Station in particular.
This was also the time when I joined the Railway – the station walls were about knee high the first time I saw it!
I met Steve Organ to see what use I could be just as he was about to take a works train from Brownhills West to Chasewater Heaths with building materials and a large drum of water – there was no running water on site at that time, it was all taken by rail!
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Firstly, a round enamelled badge 1″ diameter. London & North Eastern Railway St Andrews Ambulance Association.
Another LNE item – an oval cast iron wagon or parcels van plate. Dukinfield 1927. Size: 6.5″x 4.375″
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Now that the new Brownhills West Station was pretty much finished on the outside, it was time for the plasterers, chippies and painters to get going on the inside!
Fortunately for us, Jim Higgins was there with his camera.
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