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Encyclopedia > East Anglian Railway Museum
The museum and station
The museum and station

The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are operated by 'one'. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station is a railway station serving the villages of Wakes Colne and Chappel in Essex. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the Newmarket, the Harwich, the East Anglian Light and the East Suffolk; among others. ... Marks Tey is a village in Essex located several miles south of Colchester. ... Sudbury is a small, ancient market town in the county of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour, 15 miles from Colchester and 60 miles from London. ... The Sudbury Branch Line is the railway line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. ... ‘one’ is the brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd, which operates local, suburban and express services from London Liverpool Street in the City of London to East and North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, otherwise known as the Greater Anglia network. ...


The Museum has a wide collection of locomotives and rolling stock, some of which are fully restored and others are undergoing repair and restoration. The Restoration Shed was built in 1983-4, prior to which most work had to take place in the Goods Shed or in the open. On event days, steam train rides are operated over a short demonstration track.


The Museum also plays host to two popular annual events: the cider festival held each June, and the beer festival held each September. During the festivals additional late-evening trains on the Sudbury Branch Line allow festival-goers to return home by train. A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Cider. ... The GBBF beer festival A Beer Festival is an organised event during which a variety of beers will be available for tasting and buying. ... The Sudbury Branch Line is the railway line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. ... It has been suggested that Local trains be merged into this article or section. ...

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Steam Locomotives

The museum has an interesting collection of Industrial Steam Locomotives, some are in working order, some are being overhauled or restored and others are stored awaiting repair.


Operational

  • Bagnall 0-4-0ST outside cylinder No. 2542 "Jubilee". Retunred to traffic in April 2007 after an 18 month overhaul and now used regularly on steam rides, boiler ticket expires in 2017, painted in unlined light green and black livery.

W.G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England. ...

Under Overhaul

  • RSH 0-6-0ST inside cylinder No. 54 "Pen Green". Undergoing overhaul, being dismantled in the engine shed, currently in a wide range of colours.
  • Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST outside cylinder No. 1047 "Storefield". Retuned to traffic in 1999 after a rebuild, currently undergoing a ten yearly overhaul which should be done quickly, painted in unlined dark blue.

rsh (remote shell) is a command line computer program which can execute shell commands as another user, and on another computer across a computer network. ... Andrew Barclay & Sons Co. ...

Awaiting overhaul or restoration

  • Andrew Barclay 0-6-0ST outside cylinder "Belvoir". Awaiting restoration, requires a new smokebox as well as work on the rest of the engine before it can steam again, could be restored after "Pen Green", painted in dark blue lined out in black and yellow.
  • Peckett and Sons 0-4-0ST outside cylinder No. 2039 "Jeffrey". Awaiting a major restoration, on static display and painted with a Thomas face, painted red lined out in black and white.

Andrew Barclay & Sons Co. ... Peckett and Sons was a locomotive manufacturer at the Atlas Works in Bristol, England. ...

Diesel Locomotives

The Museum has a nice collection of Industrail diesel locomotives.


Operational

  • Class 04 0-6-0 No. 11249. Used regularly on shunting duties and sometimes passenger trains, painted in unlined black.
  • Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 No. 333 "John Peel". A regular on shunting duties, painted in blue lined out in black and yellow.
  • John Fowler 0-4-0DH No. 7 "Toby". Operational and is used as a toby for Thomas the Tank Engine evemnts, has even got a Henrietta coach! Painted in Brown and grey.

The British Rail Class 04 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical shunting locomotive class, built between 1952 and 1962 and were the basis for the later Class 03 built in the British Railways workshops. ... Andrew Barclay & Sons Co. ... John Fowler (1755-1840) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky in the United States Congress. ...

Under Restoration

  • Simplex 0-4-0 No. 2029. Undergoing a major restoration, painted in blue and orange.

In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplices) or n-simplex is an n-dimensional analogue of a triangle. ...

Diesel Multiple Units

There are a number of DMUs in use and stored at the Museum, the units are owned by Diesel Unit Preservation Associated Ltd. DUPA own other railcars which can be found in use at various preserved railways in the UK.

  • Class 101 DMBS No. 51213 and 56358. Operational and used sometimes on passenger trains.
  • Class 101 No. 51505 and 53635. Undergoing restoration.
  • Class 108 No. 50599 and 56223. Operational.

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External links

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Encyclopedia: East Anglian Railway Museum (346 words)
The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, situated on the Great Eastern Railway line from Marks Tey to Sudbury.
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East Anglian Railway Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (323 words)
The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury.
Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are operated by 'One' Railway.
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