47 photos of this museum in the North Road station built by the Stockton & Darlington Rly in 1842
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andrewstransport > Darlington North Road station, 15 November 2009 Welcome to the Head of Steam Museum, Darlington! It occupies the station built in 1842 by the Stockton & Darlington Rly to replace the North Road station built for the line's opening in 1825.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly fact and fiction, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly stone sleeper, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly milepost, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009
andrewstransport > Head of Steam museum interior, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 1 As can be seen, the museum is quite small. It has four locos. Here are three built at Darlington: Stockton & Darlington Rly 0-6-0 No 25 Derwent (1845); North Eastern Rly Tennant 2-4-0 No 1463 (1885); and NER T3 (LNER Q7) 0-8-0 No 901, later BR 63460 (1919).
andrewstransport > Head of Steam museum interior, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 2 The museum's fourth loco is legendary Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion (1825).
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 1 The 0-4-0 was built in Newcastle by Robert Stephenson & Co for the opening of the Stockton & Darlington in 1825. Locomotion was not named until about 1833. It was very much an experimental loco which required frequent and substantial repairs, so it is doubtful whether much of the 1825 original survives today.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 2 Locomotion's significance was recognised early, and it has been preserved and displayed at Darlington since 1857.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 3
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 4 A detail of the previous shot showing the cylinders and valve gear, and the safety valve weight.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 5 Locomotion has a single-flue boiler.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 6 Details of a wheel, coupling rod and crank pin (upper right). The wheels were made in two parts, inner and outer.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 7 Boiler feed water pipe from the tender.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 8 Water was fed to the boiler by the pump seen here below the nameplate. It was driven by the front cross-beam. As a result, the boiler could not be replenished if the loco were stationary.
andrewstransport > Stockton & Darlington Rly No 1 Locomotion, Darlington North Road, 15 November 2009 9 Simple chain coupling between coal chaldron (left) and Locomotion's tender (right).
Darlington North Road station, 15 November 2009 Welcome to the Head of Steam Museum, Darlington! It occupies the station built in 1842 by the Stockton & Darlington Rly to replace the North Road station built for the line's opening in 1825.
andrewstransport > Darlington North Road station, 15 November 2009 Welcome to the Head of Steam Museum, Darlington! It occupies the station built in 1842 by the Stockton & Darlington Rly to replace the North Road station built for the line's opening in 1825.
Darlington North Road station, 15 November 2009 Welcome to the Head of Steam Museum, Darlington! It occupies the station built in 1842 by the Stockton & Darlington Rly to replace the North Road station built for the line's opening in 1825.
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