/ukheritagehub @UKHeritageHub 5TH DECEMBER 2012 Welcome Two big pieces of news for you It has been a great year for the this issue. We have announced UKHH, But what has been your 2 new partners of the UKHH, the favourite moment of 2012? Send East Kent Railway and the Clan us your views and images for a Project. Also, we bid farewell to feature in next issue! being hosted by the YREA, our sincere thanks for their help and Finally, may we wish you a assistance over the last 6 Happy and safe Christmas from months. all of us here at the UKHH Also, we have the next part of Of course you can keep up to our junior volunteers feature, a date by following us on twitter follow up to an article we ran a @ UKHeritageHub or our few issues back about Facebook page, simply search trespassing and part one of a for UK Heritage Hub special feature from the Anson Enjoy! Engine Museum. Issue 15 due out: Along with this to be featured is 28th December an article written by freelance STEM consultant, Rebecca Broadbent, Front Cover : 6201 "Princess Elizabeth" is seen passing Culgaith signalbox and level crossing getting speed back up from a TSR through Culgaith tunnel. Cul- gaith formerly had a station, opened in 1880 four years after the S&C was opened by the Midland Railway. C.J. Sutcliffe Rear Cover :Newly restored USA S160 6046 powers through the Churnet Valley passing the river at Consall. Churnet Valley Railway Santa & Steam, 1/12/12. Frank Richards © Copyright UK Heritage Hub 2012 The copyright of all photographs featured within this magazine remains with the photographers credited. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any way without prior written consent. BR Peak class 45, Updated book Celebrates Film 45118, has been offered for sale by its owners. Haworth’s famous Keighley & Oakworth Station Master, this book is Worth Valley Steam Railway has pub- sure to fascinate, inform and entertain Other Peak news, lished a new edition of its best-selling anyone who recalls this wonderful film 45112 is set to move to book on the making of ‘The Railway and has a love of steam trains and the Dartmoor Railway Children’. Its 84 pages are crammed beautiful Yorkshire countryside. th and a new lease of life. with memories from many of the vol- Published on 24 November unteers and locals who worked on the 2012, it is available directly from the The boiler of STD 4MT film and there are over 100 photo- Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. 76084 was returned to graphs, many previously unpublished. Shortly after this press release its frames on 14th Included in the new edition is was issued from the KWVR, some sad November as the an exclusive interview with Gary War- news reached our attention. The ac- overhaul progresses. ren who recalls his role as ‘Peter’ and tress Dinah Sheridan, whom played exclusively reveals details of his sub- the mother in the film, sadly passed Unfortunately, upon sequent career – it will surprise many away. arrival at Heaton TMD, people. LNE A4 60007 ‘Sir Nigel There are also new features on Gresley’ was failed. Dinah Sheridan (learn about her curi- Following this, the loco ous souvenir of the film), and Bernard was removed from its Cribbins (what he said about our Mr. mainline schedule and Mitchell on a return visit). We also awaits transit back to hear how ‘Daddy My Daddy’ nearly Grosmont, NYMR. caught the wrong train, and we learn all about the struggle to create the fa- GWR 2-6-2T 4141, mous landslide scene. recently overhauled at Lovingly compiled by a former the Llangollen Railway, has arrived at its new home of the Epping Ongar Railway. ‘Hengist’ Open Forum Location: Intertrain Classrooms, sales events and to view the Cab and NER Q6 08-0 63395 is Nemesis Rail Burton Depot, Derby 8 tons of parts in safe covered store set to move to Crewe Road, Burton Upon Trent, DE14 1RS that were moved from Shillingstone for rectification to its Saturday, 29th December 11.00 am earlier in the year. Latest embroidered boiler/firebox problems. clothing designs, quality railway books Come and meet members from and the unique silver lapel badges will SR MN 35028 ‘Clan the Council of Management and hear be on sale. Line’ is currently in the the latest news on the project, also a To find the venue by train, ap- process of having GSM- chance to discuss the latest develop- proximately 20 minutes walking time R radios fitted to the ments, issues and sales initiatives. from Burton main line station in a locomotive. Family, friends and partners are all northerly [Derby] direction. By road, welcome to the Forum. Seasonal re- turn off the main Derby Road next to BR 8MT 71000 ‘Duke of freshments and nibbles will be avail- the prominent SHELL petrol station Gloucester’ is to return able. Opportunity for members to see sign. Shed complex entrance and ad- to the East Lancashire the information boards displayed at jacent car park is 50 yards straight Railway for 2013. ahead. fore A selection of images of Jinty 3F 47327 at the Midland Railway, Butterley. Rob Bellamy 0-4-0ST ’Victory’ completes the first steam loco run round at Ongar in 50 years. 01/12/12 Owen Hayward Cheshire’s Largest Steam Engine back “in steam” after 50 years OVER THE NEXT FEW IS SUES WE FEATURE THE STORY OF THE RESTORATION OF ONE OF CHESHIRE’S HIDDEN GE MS, THE STEAM ENGINE AT THE ANSON ENGINE MUSEUM. There are few people who are not moved had a contractor look at it. We understand he and enthralled by the sight and sound of a giant quoted a horrendous cost to move it so nothing steam engine in motion. The power and majesty of happened for a few years. Kwik Save who bought the spinning flywheel ignites a flame deep inside the site didn’t want the engine so they and Stock- and makes you wonder about the work and history port Borough Council gave it to Les Cawley c1984. of these industrial giants. Before the museum got it the big end bearings had This is the story of the Stott steam engine been removed (presumed stolen) and several other that used to power the cotton mill in Hazel Grove, bearings were also missing. No doubt the brass Cheshire. It has now been lovingly restored by the had been weighed-in for a bit of beer money. volunteers at the Anson Engine Museum in Poynton The Anson Engine Museum is a registered and was first run again in public in September 2011. charity and receives no grants or public funds to- This brief history of the engine and the resto- wards its running costs. Being short of money the ration will give you a flavour of what the volunteers museum could not afford to have a contractor move do at the museum to preserve our industrial heri- the engine so Les Cawley & Walter Higinbottom, tage. Trustees, set about moving it themselves. They did most of the work but Geoff Challinor (the other museum founder) who was in full time em- ployment at the time, was also roped in to help but this was mostly at weekends. Most of the removal work was carried out Spring 1984. The pieces had to be taken through the large hole at the back of the mill on the top floor – no mean feat when you real- ise the engine weighed 60 tons in total. One job Geoff vividly remembers doing was ratchet-drilling holes in the bands that hold the fly- wheel hub together. They were about 4 inch by 2 inch and they had to drill a series of holes across it to split the bands off. Another was when, to save The steam engine was originally installed at cost, a skip lorry was used to lift and transport the the Chorley Railway Wagon Company works in major pieces, this saved having to have a crane and 1903, where they produced railway wagons. It was separate truck. moved to Albion Mill in Hazel Grove c1929 after the One Piece at a time, the engine was eventu- closing of the railway works. It was common prac- ally moved to the museum where it lay in the yard tice in those times to buy a second-hand engine as for a number of years. it was much cheaper than buying a new one. Restoration The mill produced cotton wadding and cotton Geoff decided that if they didn’t get some- wool. The cotton wadding was used for surgical thing done with the engine, then Les would not get dressings in the war and was also used as padding to see it back together in his lifetime. Around 1997 around munitions. They had carding machines Geoff spent a summer assembling it. there, that were used to comb out the raw cotton Les had saved the original bed bolts, which into the fibres and the yard had great bales of cot- were something like 10 or 12 foot long. Walter had ton lying around. A failure of the original works en- dug a very deep hole out to put the steam engine in gine instigated the fitting of the Stott engine. using the original depths of foundations and the It is not clear exactly when the engine, and the mill, original engine bolts. It was going to be a colossal ceased operation but Les Cawley (one of the foun- job to put a base in at that depth.