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Posted by
Dave
on Sat Aug 30 15:57:17 2014
edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Forgot to post this photo yesterday. It's a replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway coach Huskisson, built in 1930:
Once you enter the Great Hall you don't know where to look first. Hornby is a sponsor of the museum and you can't miss them:
One of the museum standouts is the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class 6229 streamlined Duchess of Hamilton. This 4-6-2 beauty was built in 1935. It paid a visit to the U.S. at the 1939 World's Fair:
This shot sort of reminds me of looking head on at a GG-1:
Near to the Duchess were two interesting locomotives. The first is the North Eastern Railway (NER) Aerolite, the only surviving two cylinder compound engine in Britain. A 2-2-4T tank locomotive, she was built in 1869 as a 2-2-2- loco and enlarged three times. It was in service until 1933 and hauled the Chief Assistant Mechanical Engineer's inspection car:
Across from the Duchess you can see a tall smokestack belonging to the Agenoria, an 0-4-0 locomotive built in 1829. Mechanically it used grasshopper beams and connecting-rods from them to the crankpins in the four coupled wheels. Only four of these engines were built; the first three were shipped to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and arrived in NY in 1829. The Agenoria worked in a British coal mine operation:
This KF 4-8-4 was interesting to see. Built in 1935, it was one of 25 engines built for the Chinese government. It's a slimmed down version of a U.S. Northern-type locomotive. It pulled both passenger and freight and was commandeered by the Japanese army during WWII:
Don't ask me why but there is a Japanese Bullet Train at the National Railway Museum:
Inside you can watch a DVD of the bullet train. I think the woman on the left was flirting with me....just kidding!
Moving right along I passed a really neat OOO-gauge Hornby layout:
More to come in the days ahead!
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