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Scenes in County Durham 11. A trip to 'Locomotion', the National Railway Museum at Shildon via Darlington Station An excellent NRM museum to visit with regular extra events
The magnificent Victorian iron arched structure of Darlington Station from which you can get the local train to the NRM at Shildon - plenty of railway heritage en route!
A reminder of the previous industry in County Durham and the fuel for steam locomotives, the old coal staithes near Shildon Station which you pass as you walk from Shildon railway station to the Shildon National Railway museum.
The first steam locomotive you see on entering "Locomotion", the National Railway Museum at Shildon. I don't know what steam locomotive this is? The award winning National Railway Museum at Shildon was built in 2004. THE LOCOMOTIVES and TRAINS ARE LISTED AND DESCRIBED IN 'roughly' CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER and you will notice an 'impressive' overlap in the building and development of steam, electric and diesel locomotives!
"SANS PAREIL" built by Hack in 1829 for the famous Rainhill trials. Replica of 0-2-0 'Sans Pareil', built in 1979-1980 at Shildon, and now stands by the Platform 7 Cafe!
London and North Western Railway (LNWR) locomotive 173, 3020 CORNWALL built at Crewe Locomotive Works in 1847. The huge 8'6" main driving wheels of 3020 Cornwall.
3020 "CORNWALL"
The Hetton Colliery 0-4-0 locomotive built 1851-1852 and rebuilt in 1874.
The valve gear of the Hetton Colliery locomotive.
Fletcher design for the North Eastern Railway (NER) and London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) 901 Class 2-4-0 locomotive No 910 built in 1875
locomotive No 910
Adams design Class T3 4-4-0 London and South Western Railway (LSWR 563) and Southern Railway (SR) E563-563 built at Nine Elms, London, in 1893.
LSWR locomotive 563
Ivatt design for the Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class J13 0-6-0ST saddle tank design built in 1899, GNR No 1247, LNER 4247-8846, Ex British Railways (BR) number 68846.
68846
Electric locomotive built for North Eastern Railway (NER) No 1, LNER No 4075-6480, Ex BR number 26500, built in 1905 for working the Newcastle Riverside Branch.
The 0-6-0ST saddle tank 'WOOLMER' built in 1910 by Avonside Works.
'Woolmer' standing alongside the NER snowplough No 12.
North Stafford Railway No 2 built in Stoke in 1923. It became London Midland ans Scottish Railway (LMS/LMSR) locomotive 2271.
Hughes LMS design Class 5MT 'Crab' 2-6-0 locomotive LMS 2700, BR 42700, designed for light freight or passenger traffic and built at Horwich Locomotive Works, Lancashire, to a Hughes LMS design in 1926.
'Crab' LMS 2700
'Crab' LMS 2700
The prototype English-Electric diesel-electric 'Deltic' built in 1955 at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire.
Fireless 1956 Imperial No 1 which runs on a tank of compressed super-heated steam..
Left: 0-6-0 diesel shunters: BR Drewery class 03 090 was D 2090 (D2090) built at Doncaster 1960. Right: NS Class 600 (= class 08) number 663 built in 1956 by English Electric, now called 'Annette' and was obtained from Dutch Railways (Ned Rail).
Class 71 Bo-Bo electric locomotive E5001 (E 5001, 71001, 71 001) built 1959.
Class 37 Co-Co Diesel-electric locomotive 37 003 (37003, D6703, D 6703) built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry in 1960. Shown in its British Rail blue livery.
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