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Scenes in County Durham
North East Index
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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