Toy train
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paint, Wood
Measurements
229 mm (H)1295 mm (Length)140 mm (D)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338972
Summary
Wooden toy train, comprising of an engine, tender and three coaches. Painted blue, lined with white, lettered N YR in yellow, wheels painted red. First class carriage has curtains, luggage guard on roof and seat for guard. Second class has roof but open windows, third class is open. In notebook no.5, page 30 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Nursery no.11 Wooden Train c.1850. Engine. Tender. first, second & third coaches. The first class has curtains, there is a luggage guard on the roof & a seat with rails for the Guard. Second has roof but no windows. The Third is quite open. Painted Blue lined in white & lettered N & Y R in yellow. The wheels are of wood painted orange red. The interiors painted canary yellow & orange red. The train is 4ft.4ins. long.' Includes sketches with dimensions. 'There is a shop in Tombland, Norwich, with a bowed Regency door at its angle, kept by one Plowright, a dreamy sort of man. He never knows what he has got. I discovered an interesting toy train hidden away in a drawer, he said it must have been there for 15 years' (CPW, cited by M. Jessup). Only engine and tender shown. Charles Wade includes a pencil sketch of a train in his Yoxford notebook (1340944 SNO.MISC.955) on page 94. He also describes the experience of riding on the G E R in the 1890s
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 30