Model railway part
Category
Models
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Wood
Measurements
178 mm (Length)135 mm (W)104 mm (D)
Place of origin
United Kingdom
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1334880
Summary
Model railway parts contained in a large rustey tin. One Great Northern Railway Mansuell wheel set, one wooden painted buffer stop, one damaged Great Northern Railway four wheeled platform trolley with One wheel set missing, one short section of spare track (with two sleepers, four rail chairs and wooden blocks and two rail joiners on one end of the track section, one curved gauge bar from a Great Northern Railway loading gauge, one check rail from a point, one bent section of rail from a point with double rail chairs, seven point levers (five marroon and two wheathered to black undercoat) one of the black levers has a fragment of sleeper attached to the underside and one of the marroon levers has two sleeper fragments attached to the underside and is fully functional it also has a point rod still in place as does on of the black ones four of the point levers are fully funtional, spare rail joiners and rail chairs wrapped in paper, fourteen used sleeper some still have rail chairs attached, one box of Bassett Lowke LTD Lowko rail joiners (unused)and a home made box of Bassett Lowke LTD buffers.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.