StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: New Shed

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]

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".

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.

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.

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]

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

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]

Business end of a modern self-propelled steel snowplough. I am reminded of the short film "Snowdrift at Bleath Gill" ... . [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

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.

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].

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 ...

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