2008 Openday |
Steamtown Railway Museum 2008 ( page 3 of 12 )
Steam Locomotives
0-6-0ST Lindsay
This Steam Locomotive is a former Wigan Coal & Iron Co. locomotive and was bult in 1887.
0-4-0ST W.T.T
This locomotive worked at the Thistle Plaster Works at Kirkby Thore
5972 Hogwarts Castle
This steam Locomotive is in fact "Olton Hall" a Great Wester Railway 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive. It was painted GWR green or British Railways green when in service.
I do not need to tell you why it is painted this colour as the books and films are too well known! Some one named Potter.
Oliver Cromwell outside the shed at Carnforth.
70013 Oliver Cromwell is one of 55 British railways standard class 2-6-4 pacifics which became known as the Britannia Class. This was after the name of the the first of the class Britannia (also saved).
Oliver Cromwell was built a Crewe works in 1951. it was put to work on Norwich London express trains.
On the 11th of August 1968 hauled part of the Fifteen Guinea Special to mark the end of British Railways steam.
It then became part of The National Collection, but went to Bressingham near Diss in Norfolk, not to the the National Railway Museum at York. In its first few years at Bressingham it gave footplate rides. It then became a static engine, when these footplates rides were stopped, and it then needed a full overhaul.
In was to be 2004 be for it was moved to The Great Central Railway were with the help of Steam Railway readers, it was overhauled and returned to main use.
SCOTS GUARDSMAN 46115 outside the shed at Carnforth
This 4-6-0 steam locomotive is named "SCOTS GUARDSMAN" it was built by the LMS in 1927. It was then renumbered to 46115 by British Railways in 1948. This steam locomotive and was withdrawn in 1965.
The Carnforth site
West Coast Railways headquarters and main depot for the company is at Carnforth . West Coast Railways provides locomotives, stock and crews for railtours across the country The company diesel locomotives are used to haul charter trains and move stock and it hot dry weather, placed behind or at the rear of trains.
Carnforth Steamtown was one of the main museum site in the UK till around 1997. The major features of the site is its ash plant and the Coaling tower.
These Open days were stopped in 1997 because of commercial activity and the amount of carriages and locomotives on the site.