Today's Throwback Thursday takes a brief look at the Monkwearmouth Station Museum and the origin of the North Tyneside Steam Railway Association.
It began in 1977 as the Monkwearmouth Station Museum Association in the former goods shed at Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, where volunteers carried out the restorations of locomotives Kitson & Co A.No.5 and Consett Iron Company No.10. It was formed to work alongside the then named Tyne & Wear Joint Museums Service to restore railway related items.
In the early 1980s, North Tyneside Council acquired the former test shed/centre for the Tyne & Wear Metro, on Middle Engine Lane, with plans to open a heritage steam railway. With this, the Monkwearmouth Station Museum Association relocated to Middle Engine Lane and formed the North Tyneside Steam Railway Association in 1981, construction of our railway then took place between 1983-1989.
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| June 1977, repair work underway at the Monkwearmouth Goods Shed entrance |
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| September 1977, Consett & Co A.No.5 (then NCB No.41) being unloaded with Consett Iron Company No.10 in the background |
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| Cleaning out A.No.5s old boiler tubes |
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| A.No.5s boiler being filled with water |
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| John Rose inspection A.No.5s firebox |
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| John Rose working on No.10 |
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| No.10's first startup after repair work |
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| A.No.5s frames with No.10 and the NER Parcel Van in the background |
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| Volunteers carrying out work on A.No.5s boiler |
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| Volunteers John Maughan, Richard Maughan, Eddie Gibbons and Richard Swales hot rivetting A.No.5s frames |
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| John Maughan (L) and Richard Swales (R) fitting more rivets |
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Boiler tube removal from A.No.5
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| John Maughan working on A.No.5s eccentric straps |
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| Non-destructive testing A.No.5s wheels/spokes |
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