There is a steadily increasing collection of tokens in our collection – here are three of them.
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Joan Lent has been beavering away in the Museum recently getting our collection of Chasewater Railway related newspaper cuttings in some sort of order.
Should anyone have any pieces relevant to Chasewater or its environs please bring them along to the Museum – they may fill a gap in our collection.
Thank you.
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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.
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3 photographs came into the museum over the weekend, I think from the bric-a-brac on Brownhills West Station.
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It says ‘The Paddy Leaves This Station at 4.30’
The platform it departed from.
The original 3-coach Paddy – later it changed to 1 large coach.
Getting off at the corner of Rugeley Road and Rawnsley Road, Bates’ Bridge is to the left of the photo.
One of the early, local, nameplates in the collection. Part of the history of the loco follows.
No.9 Cannock Wood (The third and best-known ‘Cannock Wood’) 0-6-0T Built by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway at Brighton in 1877 (LBSCR 110). Bought from the Southern Railway (SR 110) in 1927. Still working at Rawnsley in 1957, continued to work for the NCB into the mid 1960s then preserved by the Railway Preservation Society, originally at Hednesford and later at Chasewater. Subsequently sold to members of the East Somerset Railway at Cranmore. Was steamed there, but is now homed on the Isle of Wight for further renovation work.
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A locomotive worksplate, Neilson, 2937, 1882, from a 0-4-0ST O/C new to William Baird & Co (Ltd from 1893) at Bedlay Colliery near Glenboig, their No 11, becoming part of the Scottish Iron & Steel Co Ltd in January 1939, Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd six months later and the National Coal Board in January 1947. It returned to Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd at Gartsherrie Ironworks, Coatbridge, in about 1950 and following withdrawal, was acquired in June 1968 by Railway Preservation Society, Hednesford, Staffordshire and later went to the Chasewater Light Railway. Cast brass 10″x 6¼”, the front of the plate has been repainted.
The Neilson loco pre-Chasewater days.
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