Visit to Mangapps Museum (August 2023)

[Richard Gawler]

Train rides.


Picnic area.


GER coach bodies and van.


Signalling equipment.

The museum claims "the railway signalling collection is the largest of its kind on public display in Britain" and I can hardly doubt this.

All in all, a grand day out. I took rather a lot of photos so I will post these in groups with threadmarks to suit.

 

[Richard Gawler]

There are two ex-GER coach bodies in the museum.

• Number 347, painted in green and cream, was built in 1864 and later became part of a house in Westleton, Suffolk
• Number 381, currently painted black on one side and unpainted on the other, was also built in 1864 and later fitted with iron road wheels and used as a living van by a threshing contractor at Ugley, Essex.

The two bodies are resting on three 4-wheel rail trucks built to carry naval guns.

 

[Richard Gawler]

Hi Richard
If you take some photos of the signalling equipment I would love to see them.
David.

There must be hundreds of block instruments on display. Many are behind glass screens so I chose the ones where the reflections were not too bad.

















And sitting inside a van:




There are far too many to comprehend really, this is just a tiny selection.

 

[Richard Gawler]

Lancashire Tar Distillers no. 568.

 

[Richard Gawler]

Wouldn't do to let them Yankeee followers aware of the View attachment 192589 at Mangapps.

Doh cat's outa da bag now.....

Marion is 5ft 2in tall here including her shoes and hat. This is enormous.



Match truck and its coupling.

 

[Richard Gawler]

I saw four GER vans at the museum. It is difficult to know just which details to record so the photographs here are a selection, usually where I could find space to stand to hold the camera. The four vans have four different arrangements of brake gear

A GER van built in 1881.