Photos, videos and docs of StoneRoad2013, with the keywords: "Locomotion"

NRMv - Bye-Bye

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:53:26 +0000

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Parting view of the "New Shed" at Locomotion, Shildon.

[Having looked at my images, I need to make another visit and re-take a number of them]

NRMv - shunter

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:53:23 +0000

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Sentinel did make a few railway locomotives in Shrewsbury, some steam & some diesel.
This is a 34 ton 0-4-0 example from 1959.
Diesel hydraulic shunting locomotive "HOO1".

NRMv - LSWR special

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:53:00 +0000

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LSWR Inspection Saloon.
The [oof] text reads in part - Built in 1899, the London and South Western Railway class F9 4-2-4T No.733 included an Inspection Saloon for the CME Dugald Drummond.

NRMv - people power

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:47 +0000

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Platelayer's Velocipede.
Wooden frame & seat, handlebars have a "pump action" to assist the normal pedals for motive power. Metal spoked wheels.

aka Tricycle, Buda Velocipede, Platelayer's tricycle.

NRMv - war flat

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:56 +0000

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War Flats were developed to carry tanks during the latter part of WW1, during WW2 tanks became heavier because of [mainly] thicker armour and bigger guns. This meant that the War Flats were strengthened to carry up to 50 tons.
This little Bren Gun / Universal Carrier weighs 3t 5cwt unladen and you can add up to 11cwt for fuel, armament / ammunition and the crew [They could, apparently, carry supplies in the crew space if needed]

NRMv - early container ?

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:49 +0000

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Moving house - or even a farm - over long distances was something the railways could do ! Horse-drawn removal van loaded onto a railway flat [well] waggon.
Note : on "axle stands" to take the weight off the original wooden wheels

official info ...
Road/rail removals van made by Zadock Spence of Hinckley, Leicestershire, 1910-1912. Used by removals firm of B. Ridgeway and Sons, Hinckley until 1948. Horse-drawn with wooden wheels. Body of waggon designed to be loaded onto a flat bed railway wagon. Curved profile to conform to railway loading gauge. Complete, original condition, including tool box containing some tools. Owner's name lettered on both sides. Detachable tailboard

NRMv - Matisa tamper

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:40 +0000

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Small "Matisa" tamper ...

Matisa Tamping Machine, built in 1949, British Railways (Eastern Region), No. DB74007, previously based at Boston, Lincolnshire.

Useful for "spot re-sleepering" or on short sections ... more modern machines have multiple heads. These are VERY noisy when working [ear plugs and ear defenders required]

NRMv - steel snowplough

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:36 +0000

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Business end of a modern self-propelled steel snowplough.
I am reminded of the short film "Snowdrift at Bleath Gill" ...
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[With global warming, these may be used rather less these days, when compared to the years of "big freezes" such as 1947, 1963 ... ]

Network Rail snowplough: Independent drift plough ZZA ADB 965232

NRMv - NER No.1

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:33 +0000

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Hello, old friend ! somewhat surprised to see NER Bo-Bo No.1 has been moved to the New Shed, and to a position at the far end.

NRMv - Tank 512 [1899]

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:31 +0000

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Tank wagon No.512. saddle mounted oil tank of 2047 UK gallons capacity, on a 4-wheel all wood chassis.
Built by Darlington Wagon & Engineering Company for the North Central Wagon Company and registered with the North Eastern Railway in 1889. Carried Shell-Mex & BP logos [up to 2023/4].

NRMv - coal waggons

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:29 +0000

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This was on the wall in the "New Shed" at Locomotion - that's a lot of empty coal waggons that need to go back to be re-filled. They appear to be livered to a mixture of merchants and mine owners.
I don't know where this is, but there must be several hundred waggons in these sidings. I recall seeing an image about the Chatterly - Whitfield colliery waggons, parked up like this after discharging into bunkers on ships berthed in Liverpool ...

NRMv - Hetton Lyon

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:25 +0000

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The Hetton Colliery locomotive "Lyon" ... the actual age & designer have been subjects of study & debate for some time ...
HOWEVER, investigations in 2020 strongly indicate that she was built c1849 ... see here for more information www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/about-us/press-office/myth-hetton-engine-solved

Wikipedia needs to be updated ! Claimed to have been built by the colliery in 1851/2 to a design by Young, extensively rebuilt in 1882 and continued to work until approx 1910 [1908 - 1812, sources differ]. This could be a replica of an earlier design built in 1852 by Wood.
full item ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon,_Hetton_colliery_railway

NRMv - the new shed [HBM]

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:22 +0000

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Walking up [literally] to the new shed at Locomotion, Shildon.
A few benches for those that need a sit down rest ... I think a few more may arrive before long.

There's a nice airlock doorway, but all the facilities are in the main building.

NRMv - wildflowers

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:20 +0000

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One of the nice touches here [& at Hopetown] has been the planting of wildflower / no-mow areas.
Hopefully, the bees & butterflies have already found the areas to be useful.

NRMv[24] - Gaunless Bridge {1 of 2}

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:15 +0000

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The re-displayed Gaunless Bridge, which was moved here in 2023. Currently without any decking.
It had been displayed at NRM York since 1975.
Originally built in 1823 to a design by George Stephenson.

much more detail here ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunless_Bridge

NRMv - gaunless bridge {2 of 2}

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:17 +0000

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The interpretation board for the re-erected Gaunless Bridge, now at Locomotion, Shildon.
[At least it is somewhat closer to the original site than when it was on display at the NRM York].

Stephenson's design has some very interesting features.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunless_Bridge

NRMv - just a couple of centuries developments

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:04 +0000

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A view of contrasts ...
Locomotion [the 1975 replica]
HST [class 43 ; 43 102] production power car
D200 [class 40 ; 40122] headboard says "first 2000 hp diesel London to Norwich"
Class 55 [Deltic] - DP1, the class protoytpe

NRMv - HST vs LEV1

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:00 +0000

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Prototype HST [class 41 : 41001] and the LEV1 diesel railcar [prototype for what became the late unlamented Pacers].

class 41 [1972] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_41_(HST)
LEV1 [1975] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_41_(HST)

HoS - replica Locomotion

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:51:31 +0000

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A very simplified replica of "Locomotion"

and no, I don't think the original had a seat for the "driver"

NRM - Class 31

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:53:25 +0000

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Nose of Class 31 [TOPS 31-018]
This is the first locomotive of the class and in The National Collection, at Shildon.
Of the 263 produced, some 46 were preserved, but 10 have subsequently been scrapped - one after metal thieves removed the most valuable material.
The discs are the head-code for a "Class D" train ie Express freight, livestock, perishable or ballast train partly fitted with the automatic brake operative on not less than one third of the vehicles.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_31