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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 - horse to maglev

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:52:10 +0000

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Birmingham Airport's maglev & the "Dandy Cart" from the Port Carlisle Railway ...

Left : Car 3 [Metcam] from the MagLev that ran 1984-1995 at Birmingham Airport, West Midlands, UK.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-Rail_Link#Maglev

Right : Dandy car[t], North British Railway, Port Carlisle Dandy Car[t] (dark red horse drawn rail coach).

This is one of four horse-drawn Dandy cars built by the North British Railway at its St Margaret’s Works, Edinburgh. The North British Railway, one of Scotland’s major railways, operated the branch extending from Carlisle to Silloth, and the sub-branch to Port Carlisle. Freight services on the latter branch were discontinued as early as 1899, but a horse-drawn passenger service instituted in 1863 remained until early 1914, when it was finally superseded by steam.

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)

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