Amberley Museum’s Autumn Industrial Trains Day Sunday October 12th

Sunday October 12th sees Amberley Museum’s Autumn Industrial Trains event, primarily aimed at the enthusiast.


Much of the collection will be out and about with the opportunity to get close up and personal with some very rare locos and we expect to have a visiting diesel loco from Bredgar, MotorRail 7037 of 1936, which worked until recently at William Sinclair’s peat works at Bolton Fell in Cumbria


On the standard gauge demonstration line we should have the Simplex 4wDM loco ‘Burt’ in action at half-past each hour (except over lunchtime!)


A conducted ‘Behind-the-Scenes’tour will take place at 2pm (meet in the triangle area, takes about one hour) and once again we will be able to offer visitors (over 18’s of age) hands-on experience of a true industrial railway.


Our ‘Driver-for-a-Fiver’ scheme will allow two trips at the controls of an internal combustion loco along a stretch of line not normally accessible, or seen. Under the accompaniment and guidance of an experienced driver, there will also be the opportunity for photographs to be taken, and we hope that this will raise much-needed funds to continue our work in restoring and maintaining the collection. As always, this is subject to availability of locos and volunteers (and weather!) but we hope to have two locos available for this. Start point is the concrete apron at Brockham Station. Slots will be bookable on the day.


We look forward to meeting old and new friends.

Details of our collection and activities can be found at http://www.amberleynarrowgauge.co.uk/

 

A great day, especially the hike to see the missing WR hidden in the bramble bushes

 

Pleased to help even if was a jungle adventure!

 

Laughs. You have a choice of two people as to who I am.... Orange jacket is perhaps the giveaway. It was a great day

 

Many thanks for the guided tour behind the scenes. Some photos here may be of interest. I have done my best with the captions but would be grateful for any corrections.

http://andrewstransport.smugmug.com...ilway/45113709_qptJ8d#!i=3628284606&k=qncpNt3

Photos taken in 1977 and 1978 of the short-lived Brockham museum, which subsequently moved to Amberley, can be seen here:

http://andrewstransport.smugmug.com...useum/45157433_Tvk8B9#!i=3633557058&k=c4jS4H5

Cheers

Andrew N

 

A couple of explanations to Andrew's first lot of pics:

2nd row, second from right: both ex-Thakeham petrol locos are operational. The external final chain drive is, like the gearbox inside the loco, from a Trojan vehicle.
4th row, first left: The Acme machine is a whimsical creation to allow small children to 'twiddle' with something! It's on an ex-Redland 2ft 1in gauge brick drying car chassis.
4th row, last on right: actually two works wagons, but there is a Lister (33937/1949) sheeted down between them and the Brush battery loco in the background.

Glad you enjoyed your day with us.