NRM Shildon

poliss · NRM Shildon

A few photos of NRM Shildon and the Meccano Exhibition they had.

Deltic

Tram

Stephenson's Rocket and a concept car (which I forget the name).

Supermarine Spitfie & Red Arrows Hawk etc.

I missed this table somehow. Pic taken by the missus.

First car to go up the M1.

Very early locos including the Royal George.

I did know the name of this loco, honestly! (I blame it on the heat.)

Behind Furness Railway No.20. Britains oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive.

The photographer.

No.20 was hauling this brake van. That's my boy sitting in it.

Me with Meccano set No.4 which I paid £15.00 for, which was less than we paid for the sandwiches!!!! Oh, you can see how much taller the kid is now, compared to the Beamish shots.

Even older tom

Don't you lot ever smile for the camera???

I wish I was there to see the exhibition - it looked like there were some pretty interesting displays.

Teleman

A nice birthday treet then Pol

poliss

Never smile for pics Tom. It shows the gap in my teeth. :-*
They had the enormous Meccano crane there, the one with the pipe smoking dad as on this website. http://www.btinternet.com/~a.esplen/mecc.htm
A massive working transporter bridge, if you know what they are and lots of other fun working exhibits.

I tend not to photograph much myself as I prefer just to take everything in and not worry where the next angle will be. Also, I can't see the viewscreen properly.

Took a look at the original Sans Pariel. There's something very odd about it. Anyone know what it is?

Noakesy123

did you see Green Arrow? Is it in wartime black now?

poliss

You can just see Green Arrows smokebox in the second pic. She's still in green.

Joe

The sans pariel in shildon has no tender and is painted black, it is also said to be backwards.

Joe

You can aslo see the LNER apple green livery of Green arrow in the first photograph.

poliss

Not the replica in the main museum Joe. I mean the original in the welcome centre at the other end of the site. There's something very peculiar about her.

Joe

Yes that's what I meant she is stood on a plynth in the welcome building, the only thing I can think perculiar is 1) the colour (it seems to painted in that anti vandal stuff you get on BT telephone poles

) or 2) the fact it has no tender with it (I think) I went last year so I can't fully remeber it, Oh! I think I remember Isnt one or more of the coupling rods not attached and dangling, I am sure I pointed that out to my Grandma last year, sure of it.

poliss

The tender is at the chimney end because it's a return flu boiler, but the odd thing about the loco is that the wheels are grooved like a pulley would be. It would be impossible to run her on anything but a dead straight piece of track with no points.

Joe

Oh right, Never noticed, maybe it helped with speed? For Example less metal touching so less friction?

poliss

The NRM chappie pointed it out to me. I never noticed it before either. It seems that at some point the wheels were lost. Then, a long long time ago, wheels of an incorrect design were put on, then two of them were lost.

Someone decided to make another two wheels for it, so they copied the the ones that were already there. If you look closely you can see that metal tyres have been added and then the weird grooved tyres added on top.
So this means that the wheels you see now are completely wrong. In fact nobody knows how much of the original loco exists.

poliss

I took a close look at North Eastern Railway (NER) No 1, LNER No 4075-6480 while I was there. There's a chain attached underneath the bufferbeam that I couldn't work out what it was for. Any ideas?
Here's a link that shows the chain clearly. 16th pic down.
http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/northeast/nutpage11.htm

upnick

Look a good day out from those pictures Poliss

so you have branched out into building Meccano then ? hope the screws and nuts are as i remember them not the socket type ..... all the fun of the screw driver slippping and a visit to the first aid box ... happy days and memories

Even older tom

Interesting. It doesn't look beefy enough to be a coupling, so I don't think that's an option.
Perhaps it was used to tether some form of attachment (e.g. snow plough - but that's not a real guess!).

Joe

My Best guess is a type of tow rope maybe for a locomotive that had lost a coupling? I really Have no Idea, strange.

Teleman

Looking at it , is it attached to the bogie in the middle ?

If so it might be to limit the travel to stop damage to the drive shalf or wiring

poliss

It's a continuous chain. The anchor points don't look strong enough to have anything attached to it. You could be right about stopping the bogie swivelling to far Pete. Can't think of how that would happen though, unless the used Hornby 1st radius curves.