NSR 229 Four-wheel 3 comp'ment First (body only) (scrapped) built 1879

NSR 229 Four-wheel 3 comp'ment First (body only) (scrapped) built 1879This page is a part of the Herritage Railways Carriage Survey project and is hosted on the internet by The Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT), a volunteer body, based on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in the United Kingdom. About the Trust: The Vintage Carriages Trust was formed in the late 1960s by a group of volunteers whose interest was in wooden bodied railway carriages. They could see that there was a need to concentrate on the preservation of these historic items which were in grave danger of disappearing due to the weather and vandalism damage and unsuitability for regular use on preserved railways of the day. The Trust became a Registered Charity in 1981 and a Registered Museum in 1992. The Collection held by the Trust is at present nine historic railway carriages, also three small industrial steam locomotives, and a collection of railway posters and other miscellaneous railway items. The Trust owns the Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow - the first station from Keighley on the Worth Valley Railway. By three phases of building work over the last ten years this has developed into a large museum display and associated workshop, and is the Trust’s headquarters. Although the building is named a

 

Present Location SCRAPPED
Designed For NSR
Build Location Stoke on Trent
Diagram number 16
Type FY
First Number 229
Gauge 4ft 8 1/2in
Wheel Arrangement Body only
Additional Notes Query date, where built, Dgm No. Body grounded at Market Drayton builders' yard. P 1992 at 'Nostalgia World' theme park (near Shrewsbury) as static exhibit. Derelict by 1994: believed scrapped ca 1998 after closure of Nostalgia World.
Owner Private
Rarity Unique


 

  
 

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