StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Maud

oad (g&h) - Maud's night-shift

21 Jan 2025 2 32
Normally, anything left on top of Maud's cage gets knocked onto the floor, so to find that she'd spent some time pulling this plastic carrier bag inside was a distinct change. A little longer and she might have got it all inside !

PQR - internal display

22 Oct 2017 263
Part of the internal display of information panels. I spent some time during the afternoon discussing these with visitors to the official opening and to Maud Railway Station Museum.

PQR - Van lift at Maud

19 Oct 2017 250
Lifting the convict van from the turntable pit, onto the low-loader that will take it to Haltwhistle for restoration. Note the cross-bracing, necessary to hold the lower sections squared and together as the cill and floor are missing.

PQR - unloading

19 Oct 2017 225
Unloading the convict van, the lowloader having arrived back at Maud.

PQR - arrival backing down

19 Oct 2017 216
The lowloader moving over to the unloading point.

PQR - arrival at Maud 01

19 Oct 2017 212
The arrival of the low-loader bringing the Peterhead Quarry Railway Convict Van back to Maud, after the van spent much of the summer on display at Beamish Museum.

PQR - alongside moves

19 Oct 2017 219
Bringing the van along to the track, rather slowly and carefully.

PQR - convict and box vans

19 Dec 2016 421
The Convict Van and a ex-RNAD box van sit in the late afternoon sunshine, as the day of the Official Opening draws to a close. The box van is the type used to move shells around RNAD establishments, and part of the Admiralty Yard at Peterhead was used to mount guns for defence during WW2, overlooking the South Pier.

PQR - end of the day at Maud

19 Dec 2016 402
The quiet moments at the end of the "official opening" day for the restored PQR Convict Van at Maud Railway Station Museum.

PQR - Maud team two

19 Dec 2016 386
Four members of the Maud Railway Station Museum team of volunteers.

PQR - Maud team one

19 Dec 2016 403
Four members of the Maud Railway Station Museum team of volunteers.

PQR - attendees

19 Dec 2016 369
Most of the invited audience listening to Nigel Sawford's opening remarks, describing the restoration of the Convict Van and some details of the overall project, at Maud Railway Station Museum. The event attracted a number of passing residents and visitors, in addition to the official guests.

PQR - Nigel Sawford

19 Dec 2016 1 424
Nigel Sawford introduced Dr Whiteford, MP - and the restored Convict Van - to an invited audience.

PQR - official opening

19 Dec 2016 404
On the 3rd September 2016, the trustees of Maud Station Railway Museum officially unveiled / opened the restored "Convict Van" from the Peterhead Quarry Railway. The cutting of the ribbon was performed by the local MP, Dr E Whiteford.

PQR - Steam Railway in Nov 2016

19 Dec 2016 1 444
Report published in Steam Railway about the Official Opening for the PQR convict Van after returning to Maud Station Railway Museum.

O&S - old depot

25 Aug 2012 363
This closed a few years ago.