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Chasewater Railway Museum – what’s inside the loco…

Posted on September 28, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

What’s inside the loco…

This model was purchased by the donor, Allan Preston, from the makers in Bury, Lancs in 1979. It was produced along with 3 other models for Bangladesh Railways, but was not sent due to there being no Letter of Credit forthcoming. The other 3 were probably scrapped. It is loosely based on a Royal Scot Class locomotive.

Tagged Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Burntwood, Cannock, Cannock Wood, Chasewater Railway Museum, Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Hazel Slade, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Lichfield, Model, Norton Canes, Royal Scot Class Loco, Staffordshire, Steam Trains, Walsall Wood, Wolverhampton

Chasewater Railway Museum – Signal Lever Frame

Posted on September 19, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Signal Lever Frame

A very nice addition to the Museum collection was this 7-lever signal frame.

The frame came to Chasewater from the National Railway Museum in 2012.

For more details about Hemyock on the Culm Valley Light Railway, Great Western Region, click on the link below.

Some Early Lines – Culm Valley Light Railway

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Tagged Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Burntwood, Cannock, Cannock Wood, Cheslyn Hay, Culm Valley Light Railway, Great Wyrley, GWR, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Hemyock Station, Lichfield, Museum Collection, Norton Canes, NRM, Old Railway Lines, Pelsall, Signal Lever Frame, Steam Trains, Walsall, Walsall Wood, Wolverhampton

Chasewater Railway Museum – Another Nameplate

Posted on September 14, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Another Nameplate

Carol Ann No.1

or, as she started out in life,

Carol Ann No.5

0-6-0ST Hunslet 1821/1936. Bought new. Still at Holly Bank 1957 – since scrapped.
Robert Nelson No.4 and Carol Ann No.5 (Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 and 1821 respectively, built 1936) were named after the Colliery Manager’s two children.
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On transfer to Littleton Colliery in NCB days – November 1959 – Carol Ann was renumbered ‘1’ by grinding the ‘5’ off the nameplate and screwing in a ‘1’. This was because Littleton already had a loco ‘Littleton No.5’

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Tagged 0-6-0ST Hunslet, 1821-1936, Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Burntwood, Cannock, Cannock Wood, Carol Ann No. 1, Carol Ann No.5, Chasewater Railway Museum, Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Hazel Slade, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Holly Bank, Lichfield, Littleton Colliery, Norton Canes, Pelsall, Steam Trains, Walsall, Walsall Wood, Wolverhampton

3 Photos – New to us

Posted on September 7, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

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3 Photos – New to us

3 photographs came into the museum over the weekend, I think from the bric-a-brac on Brownhills West Station.

The first one is the Peckett loco ‘Hanbury’ of the West Cannock No. 5 Colliery, No.587 of 1894, looking cool!

Next is the Hunslet, ‘Wimblebury’ pictured on the Rawnsley Road on the way to Cannock Wood. No.3839 of 1956. Note the ‘frog-eye’ Austin Healey Sprite coming through on the inside!

Finally, another study of ‘Wimblebury’ – hope nobody’s got their washing out!

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Cannock Wood Nameplate

Posted on September 3, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Cannock Wood Nameplate

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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This was new to the Museum – in 2012

Posted on September 2, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

This was new to the Museum – in 2012

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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Chasewater Railway Museum Early Posts – One new and a few old Museum Pieces

Posted on August 29, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Next weekend – open on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September for the Industrial Gala – Come and see the visiting loco, Hunslet 3890-1964, the last standard gauge steam loco built for the UK Until Tornado, and 3 other locos in steam

Chasewater Railway Museum Early Posts

The following was first published on 16th November 2011

One new and a few old Museum Pieces

The Cannock Station signal box nameboard was delivered to the museum on Tuesday Nov. 14th by Stan, a good friend of the Curator and the museum. Its final resting place has yet to be decided but it is on show in the museum.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, the photographing of the museum collection continued in the stores, and I thought I might publish a few pictures of some of the station furniture which the museum has tucked away, as do many other museums, in store.This item is a roll-fronted ticket rack from about 1938.This is a wooden chair with a Staffordshire Knot carved in the back, formerly of the North Staffs Railway.Finally for this time, another wooden chair, with a cut-out letter ‘M’ in the back, from the Midland Railway.

While it is good that the museum has these and more items in store, it would be nice to think that sometime in the future (probably distant) the museum could be extended and these items could be restored to their former glory and put on show.

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Chasewater Railway Museum’s Latest Acquisitions

Posted on August 25, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum’s Latest Acquisitions

Not quite the size of the item on the previous post but we like them anyway!

The first one is an NUR badge, 0.75″ round from about 1940. It is made from tin with plastic covering.

This one is a Great Central Railway badge, 1″ diameter, for Railway Service during World War 1

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Chasewater Railway Museum – our latest book

Posted on August 23, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum – our latest book

This book of photographs, by J.B.Bucknall, includes many pictures of local interest, and it was thought it would be a good addition to our collection.

One photo is of particular interest to Chasewater Railway members as it shows a coal train leaving West Cannock 5s pit, heading for the Hednesford Yard, and in front of the engine can be seen the first headquarters of the Railway Preservation Society (West Midlands Division), where the Society stayed rent-free for 10 years Courtesy of Charles Ives, Penkridge Engineering) before moving to Chasewater, and changing its name to the Chasewater Light Railway Society and later to the Chasewater Light Railway and Museum Company.

The building (between the 2 telegraph poles), which is still standing, consisted of brick pillars and a roof, but now the spaces between the pillars have been bricked up.

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Chasewater Railway Museum- more new stuff

Posted on August 21, 2015 by John D | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum- more new stuff

Three more items for the collection, one in the Commercial Equipment case and the other two, Hornby models.

This first one is an unusually shaped inkwell, brown earthenware marked GER (Great Eastern Railway)

Secondly, a Hornby ‘0’ gauge Junction Signal.

Finally, a Hornby ‘0’ gauge Water Crane. ( In my youthful (!) innocence I have always thought of them as water towers, but people who know about such things tell me that they are water cranes).

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Chasewater Railway Museum

What’s inside the loco…

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Chasewater Railway Museum

Signal Lever Frame

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Chasewater Railway Museum

Another Nameplate

Carol Ann No.1

or, as she started out in life,

Carol Ann No.5

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Chasewater Railway Museum

3 Photos – New to us

The first one is the Peckett loco ‘Hanbury’ of the West Cannock No. 5 Colliery, No.587 of 1894, looking cool!

Next is the Hunslet, ‘Wimblebury’ pictured on the Rawnsley Road on the way to Cannock Wood. No.3839 of 1956. Note the ‘frog-eye’ Austin Healey Sprite coming through on the inside!

Finally, another study of ‘Wimblebury’ – hope nobody’s got their washing out!

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Cannock Wood Nameplate

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This was new to the Museum – in 2012

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Next weekend – open on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September for the Industrial Gala – Come and see the visiting loco, Hunslet 3890-1964, the last standard gauge steam loco built for the UK Until Tornado, and 3 other locos in steam

Chasewater Railway Museum Early Posts

The following was first published on 16th November 2011

One new and a few old Museum Pieces

The Cannock Station signal box nameboard was delivered to the museum on Tuesday Nov. 14th by Stan, a good friend of the Curator and the museum. Its final resting place has yet to be decided but it is on show in the museum.

While it is good that the museum has these and more items in store, it would be nice to think that sometime in the future (probably distant) the museum could be extended and these items could be restored to their former glory and put on show.

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Chasewater Railway Museum’s Latest Acquisitions

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Chasewater Railway Museum – our latest book

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Chasewater Railway Museum- more new stuff

Three more items for the collection, one in the Commercial Equipment case and the other two, Hornby models.

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