Glyn Valley Tramway (Replica) Coach

 

This coach started its life as a Side tipping stone wagon, using the chassis it was converted into a grey generator coach, with no windows..

Purchased by the OKLR in the early 90's the transformation into its current guise began.

 

 About the Glyn Valley Tramway

Opened in 1873, the Glyn Valley Tramway linked slate quarries at Glyn Ceiriog to the canal South of Chirk.

 

 

 

 

 

"Joanna"

 

This coach was purchased from the East Hayling light railway at the end of 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two of our other coaches are 1920’s  four wheel coaches, built by Baguley, E. E. Ltd., Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent.

 

They were originally built for a private estate railway at Lilleshall Hall, Shropshire, under Baguley works order 136 placed on the 8th March 1928   which was for three coaches of a jaunting car style ( Bench style seating down the middle.) .They were delivered to Lilleshall Hall, on April 2nd 1928.

 

A further 3 coaches were delivered in 1935, making a total of six one of which being braked (the braked coach is one of the examples on the OKLR).

Lilleshall Hall closed to the public on the outbreak of WWII.

 

In March 1953 all six coaches were delivered to Alton towers theme park, were they remained until 1996 being sold to a private owner, before being purchased by the OKLR in 1999. 

 

Currently being fitted with a roof

 

"No. 41"

No. 41 was based on the Penrhyn railway system associated with the Slate quarries of the same name in North Wales, and very possibly has been hauled before by Pamela.

 

 

 OKLR Brake van

 

 This brake van was converted from a mobile ticket office,  purchased from the East Hayling light railway, and converted at the OKLR.

 

Ex RNAD Dean Hill rolling stock.

 

 

DH417 Box Van

this box van was built in 1942, was from the two foot six inch gauge railway system at Dean Hill, near Salisbury, (later renamed Defence Munitions Dean Hill). Hence the DH.

It was used to transport ammunition in the depot to underground bunkers.  marked up with RNAD  (Royal Naval Armament Depot.)

 

Re-gauged to two foot gauge for use on the OKLR.

 

 

 

 

 

DH453 Box Van

this box van was built in 1942, was from the two foot six inch gauge railway system at Dean Hill, near Salisbury, (later renamed Defence Munitions Dean Hill). Hence the DH.

It was used to transport ammunition in the depot to underground bunkers.  marked up with RNAD  (Royal Naval Armament Depot.)

 

Re-gauged to two foot gauge for use on the OKLR.

 

 

 

 

 "DH323 flat wagon"

this Flat wagon was built in 1942, was from the two foot six inch gauge railway system at Dean Hill, near Salisbury, (later renamed Defence Munitions Dean Hill). Hence the DH.

It was used to transport ammunition in the depot to underground bunkers.  marked up with RNAD  (Royal Naval Armament Depot.)

 

Re-gauged to two foot gauge for use on the OKLR.

 

 

 

 

 "DH359 flat wagon"

this Flat wagon was built in 1942, was from the two foot six inch gauge railway system at Dean Hill, near Salisbury, (later renamed Defence Munitions Dean Hill). Hence the DH.

It was used to transport ammunition in the depot to underground bunkers.  marked up with RNAD  (Royal Naval Armament Depot.)

 

Re-gauged to two foot gauge for use on the OKLR.

 

 

 

Two other Dean Hill Wagons are waiting to be Re-gauged to two foot gauge for use on the OKLR, these are Flat wagons DH330 & DH522.

 Ex RAF Chilmark wagons

"C50"

C50. Built 1940  Used on the MOD railway at RAF Chilmark (Near Salisbury), used for transporting shells etc.

RAF Chilmark closed 1995.

C50 has been plated for carrying coal, and would originally have looked like C69 pictured below.

 

 

 

 

"C69"

C69. Built 1940 Used on the MOD railway at RAF Chilmark (Near Salisbury), used for transporting shells etc.

 

RAF Chilmark closed 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

"C85"

C85. Built 1940 Used on the MOD railway at RAF Chilmark (Near Salisbury), used for transporting shells etc.

 

RAF Chilmark closed 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

"C90"

C90. Built 1940 Used on the MOD railway at RAF Chilmark (Near Salisbury), used for transporting shells etc.

 

RAF Chilmark closed 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

"C108"

C108. Built 1940 Used on the MOD railway at RAF Chilmark (Near Salisbury), used for transporting shells etc.

 

RAF Chilmark closed 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ex RAF Fauld rolling stock.

 

F199 We only have one wagon from Fauld but it has a very interesting past.

RAF Fauld was situated just south of the village of Fauld, in Staffordshire. Until the site suffered a very serious accident.

 

The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11am on Monday, 27th November1944 the explosion was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest ever to occur on UK soil.

Between 3,450 and 3,930 tons (3,500 and 4,000 tonnes) of ordnance exploded — mostly comprising high explosive (HE)-filled bombs, but including a variety of other types of ordnance, including 500 million rounds of rifle ammunition. — which were stored underground exploded en masse. Two explosions occurred where bombs were stocked in bunkers covering 180,000 sq ft of concreted corridors.  The passages were 12 feet high x 20 feet wide and had space for trucks.  Inside the atmosphere was 'clear air' at 55 F.

After the explosion there was a mushroom cloud, about 50 yards wide and upwards out of sight.  Mounds of earth weighing up to a ton in weight fell to the ground.   Afterwards a fine dust up to 4 inches thick fell, and it was possible to walk without making any noise. A crater, half a mile across and 400 feet deep was left behind.

A local reservoir containing 6 million gallons of water (450,000 cubic meters of water.) completely disappeared.

The entire mine was not destroyed, but the hills housing the mine completely disappeared.  Virtually every house in Hanbury Village was severely damaged – the Cock Inn lost half of its roof and Upper Hayes Farm completely vanished.  In Tutbury, chimney pots and roofs were shattered and two church steeples in Burton were cracked – one had to be taken down.  The blast was heard as far south as Daventry, 19 miles south of Coventry and at Weston Super Mare.  Seismographs recorded the shock waves at Casablanca.

Only three larger blasts were recorded during the War - those at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the New Mexico Tests.  The crater is 400ft deep and covers 12 Acres. 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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