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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Pallot Museum, Jersey - The Railway Locomotives

On 8th July I gave some brief details of the Pallot Steam, Motor & General Museum in Jersey and now here's some photographs of the railway locomotives in the museum. I showed a photograph in that earlier post of the 1931 Bagnall 0-4-0 saddle tank 'J.T.Daly' and there are two other steam locomotives to be seen inside the museum:
This is a Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive 'Foleshill', engine no. 2085 built in 1948 for Courtaulds' Aber works in Flint, North Wales

The 0-6-0 locomotive 'La Meuse', built in Belgium and spent much of its life hauling coal in and around Brussels before going to Jersey in 1987 and being rebuilt by Mr Pallot's engineers.

If you visit the museum on a Thursday you can have a ride in a train comprising two Victorian coaches drawn by yet another saddle tank locomotive:
This is another Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive, 'Kestrel', built in 1952 for Crane Ltd of Ipswich, Suffolk. The train will take you twice round an oval track in the middle of which is a field which, when we visited, contained a flock of sheep. The first time round  as it rounded the bend the sheep set off running as if in panic, but on the second 'lap' they just stood around munching away at the grass.
And here's the train rounding the bend back to the station:
The Victorian varnished teak coaching stock is thought to date to the end of the 19th century and was taken to the museum for restoration in 1989, the under-frame material and wheels coming from Woodham Bros scrapyard (which handled the larger part of British Railways' scrapped steam locomotives) in Barry, South Wales.

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