A railway museum in Shropshire is restoring a 110-year-old wagon as part of a plan to attract more visitors. Volunteers will spend 18 months repairing the former London Northwestern Railway wagon.
A railway museum in Shropshire is restoring a newly-delivered 110 year-old wagon in a plan to attract more visitors. The eight and-a-half tonne former London Northwestern Railway (LNWR) wagon now has a home at the Bishop's Castle Railway Museum. Transport ed via lorry, it now sits on an 11ft (3.3m) long track plinth at the site, ready for repairs by volunteers that will take 18 months.
'We think most of the timber cladding has got to be removed, but the base is sound, the chassis is sound, the steelwork underneath, the wheels and so on, brakes, they're all sound,' said Dave Thornton, who is ready to get to work. 'The rest of it needs 100% replacement, so it's going to keep us off the streets for several months,' he said.The restoration will take volunteers about 18 months 'The former owner bought it many years ago and he was going to restore it himself,' says Dave Ethery, another volunteer.The volunteers plan to eventually repaint the outside, and put the letters 'BCR' - for Bishop's Castle Railway, on the side. 'The track which the wagon sits on is authentic Bishop's Castle Railway track, and it's called bullhead rail,' said Mr Thornton. 'Some of the chairs which hold the track onto the sleepers are also authentic Bishop's Castle Railway chairs.'Previously, they bought and restored a Great Western Railway banana van, and turned it into a railway bookshop.'We'd probably go for something different, like an open truck or a guard's van, to make a short train.'The museum seeks to preserve the memory of the former privately-owned Bishop's Castle Railway, which opened in 1866, but closed due to bankruptcy in 1935
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