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Chasewater Railway Museum – Cuttings wanted!

Posted on September 15, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Still in need of newspaper cuttings – please.

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This 1999 cutting is one of our last.

Anything you have to do with the Railway or Chasewater district would be much appreciated.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Another Nameplate

Posted on September 14, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Another Nameplate

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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’

05212 Carol Ann No.5 HE 0-6-0ST1821-1936 Holly Bank 05213 Carol Ann No.1 0-6-0ST Pic Stan Cartwright

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Chasewater Railway Museum – newspaper cuttings wanted

Posted on September 10, 2015 by | 1 comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

Newspaper cuttings wanted

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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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Chasewater Railway Museum – a small addition

Posted on September 9, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum 

  A small addition

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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 Photos – New to us

Posted on September 7, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

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.

Hanbury in the snow

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

Wimblebury Rawnsley Road

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!

Wimblebury smoke

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

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Chasewater Railway Museum – Cannock Wood Paddy Train Starting Board

Posted on September 4, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum –

Cannock Wood Paddy Train Starting Board

It’s a bit faded but well worth keeping – another item in the Chasewater Railway Museum.  From the platform at Cannock Wood.

Paddy train leavingIt says ‘The Paddy Leaves This Station at 4.30’

NCB 9The platform it departed  from.

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The original 3-coach Paddy – later it changed to 1 large coach.

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Getting off at the corner of Rugeley Road and Rawnsley Road, Bates’ Bridge is to the left of the photo.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – a few old signs

Posted on August 31, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Chasewater Railway Museum

A few warning signs from our collectioN

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The first one is made from wood with cast iron lettering.  We do not know which railway it came from.

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Next is an LNWR cast iron notice

 

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Now a London & South Western Railway Notice – cast iron.

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A Midland Railway cast iron sign

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Ex NCB line between Cannock Wood and Chase Terrace. Location: Ironstone Road, up from the ‘Rag’, seen in the photo below.

To the Rag

Two photos of a sign, before restoration and nearing completion.

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This was found in the mid 1960s in the Wyrley Branch of the Wyrley & Essington Canal which is now under Vernon Way, in the New Invention, Essington area. The railway crossing of the A4124 Lichfield Road from Holly Bank Colliery to the canal basin at Short heath was about 150 yards away on the other side of the M6. It seems logical to assume that this was where the sign was originally placed.

 

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Finally, one of the Railway’s own signs, from the early days at Chasewater.

 

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

Posted on August 29, 2015 by | 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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Some fire-related items from the Museum collection from various railways

Posted on August 28, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Some fire-related items from the Museum collection from various railways

Starting with a chimney from the furnace in the tin-smith’s shop at Stafford Road , Wolverhampton.  GWR dated 1900.

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Three fireplace fenders from various offices:

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This one is from the Great Eastern Railway

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The third fender is from the station fireplace at Stowe by Chartley, Great Northern Railway

Another item from Stowe by Chartley on the Great Northern Railway is this stove door.

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Another stove door – from the North Staffs Railway

1857 NSR Stove door

And finally, This North Staffs Railway stove – complete with kettle (very heavy!!)

NSR Stove Crop

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Some more photos have come to light – leaving the old Brownhills West Yard

Posted on August 26, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Some more photos have come to light:

Leaving the old Brownhills West Yard

To get from the first two photos, taken in 1978 and 1992, to the third, taken in 2007, a considerable amount of stock had to be moved. 

 

Autumn 1992. Brownhills West Station with a DMU waiting

Autumn 1992. Brownhills West Station with a DMU waiting

Brownhills West Station in 1978, including the signal with the slotted post.

Brownhills West Station in 1978, including the signal with the slotted post.

New Brownhills West Station at Easter, 2007.

New Brownhills West Station at Easter, 2007.

The following photos capture the tail end of the move:

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