tarboat's photos with the keyword: brownhills

4wDM 'Morris' (works number 2028) was built at Motor Rail (Simplex) Works in Bedford in 1920 and started out at Exeley & Sons Ltd in Shropshire from new. In 1935 the original petrol engine was replaced by a modern diesel design then was sold that year to Davy Morris Works in Loughborough (hence the name), working there until withdrawal in the late 1980s. It is seen here at Brownhills West on the Chasewater Railway working a couple of nicely restored coal wagons, lettered for local collieries, during the Industrial Railway Society AGM visit to the railway.

Kerr Stuart 3063 of 1918 at Brownhills West, Chasewater Railway. Part of the fun at the Industrial Railway Society AGM.

4wDM 'Morris' (works number 2028) was built at Motor Rail (Simplex) Works in Bedford in 1920 and started out at Exeley & Sons Ltd in Shropshire from new. In 1935 the original petrol engine was replaced by a modern diesel design then was sold that year to Davy Morris Works in Loughborough (hence the name), working there until withdrawal in the late 1980s. It is seen here arriving at Brownhills West on the Chasewater Railway during the Industrial Railway Society AGM day at the railway.

This one is special; the decoration in the frog is just wonderful. Francis Harry Gordon opened his brickworks in the 1870s, on a site with a 30ft thick bed of clay, adjacent to the Daw End Canal just south-west of Clayhanger Bridge at Brownhills. The buildings included three drying sheds, the largest measuring 150ft x 30ft and had a cast iron plated floor. Nearby and on the other side of the canal was the Walsall Wood Colliery brickworks and price cutting by this works led to the demise of the Gordon business in 1896.