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Electric Railway Museum Open Weekend
25/26 September 2010
by Ken Jones. Added to website 28 September 2010
Ken Jones writes:
The Electric Railway Museum (website
HERE)
near Coventry airport and next to the Midland Air Museum (website
HERE)
held over the weekend of 25/26 September a free open weekend for the public. This site is normally not open to members of the public, and the
event was a low key one with the possibility of doing something else next year. Less than 24 hours notice I was told about the event by
email, and so a change of plans meant I went to photograph the stock and have a look round the site. It has items associated with overhead
and third rail supply as well as battery power.
Here are some photographs:
1. This operational LMS hand crane dates from 1944.
2. A135 YOX was a former RAF ambulance now acting as a mess van.
3. They have 2 x 3 car 309 Clacton sets 960 101 (309 624) and 960 102 (309 616).
4. Local artists have painted one of the units - one coach has a Pendilino and another Eurostar painted into the design - customised graffiti.
5. Kearsley Power Station locomotive No 4 from 1945 rebuilt as Heysham number 1 400v battery locomotive.
6. LMS class 503 EMU 28690 built by Met-Camm at Wednesbury in 1937. The other 2 cars from the set are also on site have been reformed into the correct 3 car set.
7. Unit 501 is 1957 2 car set built 1957 Eastleigh with the 2 cars coming from different sets.
8. 4 SUB / 405 unit 4732 has all 4 cars on site - they being built between 1948 and 1951 at Eastleigh. These units finished in 1982 but this one was kept by BR for specials until 1996.
9. Unit 4311 is a 2 HAP / 414 2 car unit built at Eastleigh in 1958.
10. Spondon Power Station Number 1 built in 1935 and running on batteries works the freight train for the photographers.
Take a look at Ken's railway website
HERE