Stanway house and fountain Broadway Worcestershire
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Historic Bus Tours from OuterCircleBus - The Cotswolds
On June the 19th 2012 we took 46 people on a Midland Red bus for a tour of the Cotswolds. Our second call was at Stanway House to see the magnificent 300 foot fountin in the gardens. Here are just a few seconds of the fountain as it starts.Find out about our Historic Bus Tours at outercirclebus.com [Thanks to Ken Harris for the video]
Toddington Part Two
Toddington lies between Broadway and Winchcombe and is home to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. The manor was designed by amateur architect Charles Hanbury-Tracy who chaired the commission which chose Barry's design for the new Houses of Parliament in 1835. Toddington Manor is thought to have influenced Barry's design.It was recently bought by Damian Hirst who is converting the building into a gallery to exhibit his collection of art. The church would grace a small town, built by the architect G.E. Street between 1873-9 from Cotswold stone no expense was spared.
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(HD)#RARE# Former Wemyss No15 EARL DAVID Avon Valley Railway 3rd March 2013
Former Wemyss No15 EARL DAVID Avon Valley Railway filmed on a grey day around 2:30pm on the 3rd of March 2013
article by: Ian Crowder
posted on: 21 May 2009
updated on: 02 December 2009
Former Wemyss Private Railway Austerity 0-6-0ST no. 15, to be named Earl David on Sunday 24th May. (Paul Stratford)
Former Wemyss Private Railway Austerity 0-6-0ST no. 15, to be named Earl David on Sunday 24th May. (Paul Stratford)
Now here is a rare occurrence - the naming of a steam locomotive!
But you can witness just that at Toddington Station during the Cotswold Festival of Steam, on Sunday 24th May at 3pm at Toddington station.
The occasion is the naming of Andrew Goodman's Andrew Barclay 'Austerity' 0-6-0ST no. 15 (works no. 2183 of 1943). The locomotive will be named 'Earl David' after the 12th Earl of Wemyss by the present, 13th Earl.
There is a special reason for the Earl to perform the naming ceremony, quite apart from the fact that he lives nearby at Stanway House, which is famous for its water gardens and spectacular gravity-fed fountain. The family farms much of the land on the Cotswold side of the railway at Toddington including the field often used as an overflow car park (for instance, during the Cotswold Festival of Steam).
The much more intriguing link is that the locomotive was once owned by David, the 12th Earl of Wemyss and it operated on an extensive mineral railway in Scotland, called the Wemyss Private Railway.
The Wemyss Private Railway
Since the 1430s, coal was mined on the Wemyss estate in Fife, Scotland. The Earldom of Wemyss was granted in the Peerage of Scotland in 1633, and a charter was granted to David, the 2nd Earl, by Charles II to construct a harbour at Methil for the shipment of coal mined on the estate. Thus started the systematic extraction of coal from the considerable deposits both under the estate and beneath Firth of Forth.
Towards the end of the 19th century plans were drawn up for what was to become the Wemyss & Buckhaven Railway, later Wemyss Private Railway (WPR) as a more reliable method of moving coal to the harbour than the service then provided by the North British Railway. The WPR served several collieries including the Michael deep mine which was the most productive colliery in Scotland, extracting over 1m tons of coal per year until a disastrous fire closed it in 1967. That signalled the rapid decline of the railway and it closed some 70 years after it opened.
During the 1960s the railway operated large fleet of 0-6-0T and 0-6-0ST locomotives including no. 15, which in 1964 was acquired from the E G Steels of Hamilton (who in turn bought it from the Ministry of Defence). It was built by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock and was overhauled while in the WPR's ownership by its maker, but then did little work before withdrawal in 1971 on closure of the railway.
No. 15 is one of nearly 500 similar locomotives designed by Hunslet for wartime use but produced by a number of locomotive builders, including Andrew Barclay who built just 13.
The naming ceremony on 24th May acknowledges not only David, the present Earl's father, but David, the 2nd Earl - arguably the father of the Wemyss coal mining estate in Scotland. It also marks the part played by the Wemyss Private Railway in shifting millions of tons of coal over 70 years. No. 15 will proudly bear the name Earl David in recognition of a colourful chapter in both mining and railway history.
You can read a feature about the Austerity 0-6-0STs and no. 15 in particular by clicking here.
Sources: Wikipedia; The Wemyss Private Railway (A W Brotchie, Oakwood Press)
(HD)#RARE# Former Wemyss No15 EARL DAVID Avon Valley Railway 10th March 2013
(HD)#RARE# Former Wemyss No15 EARL DAVID Avon Valley Railway 10th March 2013
Former Wemyss No15 EARL DAVID Avon Valley Railway filmed on a cold grey day. No15 was on the 12:15pm from Riverside station on the 10th of March 2013. The first clip is on the Bath side of the bridge before Bitton station and the second shot is it departing Bitton in the Bristol direction and the third shot is Cherry lane (such a nice English name for a lane). Cherry Lane bridge is on the Bristol side of Bitton station. All locations are well with in walking distance depending on departure times.
And 31130 sits in the yard with newly restored wagons.
article by: Ian Crowder
posted on: 21 May 2009
updated on: 02 December 2009
Former Wemyss Private Railway Austerity 0-6-0ST no. 15, to be named Earl David on Sunday 24th May. (Paul Stratford)
Former Wemyss Private Railway Austerity 0-6-0ST no. 15, to be named Earl David on Sunday 24th May. (Paul Stratford)
Now here is a rare occurrence - the naming of a steam locomotive!
But you can witness just that at Toddington Station during the Cotswold Festival of Steam, on Sunday 24th May at 3pm at Toddington station.
The occasion is the naming of Andrew Goodman's Andrew Barclay 'Austerity' 0-6-0ST no. 15 (works no. 2183 of 1943). The locomotive will be named 'Earl David' after the 12th Earl of Wemyss by the present, 13th Earl.
There is a special reason for the Earl to perform the naming ceremony, quite apart from the fact that he lives nearby at Stanway House, which is famous for its water gardens and spectacular gravity-fed fountain. The family farms much of the land on the Cotswold side of the railway at Toddington including the field often used as an overflow car park (for instance, during the Cotswold Festival of Steam).
The much more intriguing link is that the locomotive was once owned by David, the 12th Earl of Wemyss and it operated on an extensive mineral railway in Scotland, called the Wemyss Private Railway.
The Wemyss Private Railway
Since the 1430s, coal was mined on the Wemyss estate in Fife, Scotland. The Earldom of Wemyss was granted in the Peerage of Scotland in 1633, and a charter was granted to David, the 2nd Earl, by Charles II to construct a harbour at Methil for the shipment of coal mined on the estate. Thus started the systematic extraction of coal from the considerable deposits both under the estate and beneath Firth of Forth.
Towards the end of the 19th century plans were drawn up for what was to become the Wemyss & Buckhaven Railway, later Wemyss Private Railway (WPR) as a more reliable method of moving coal to the harbour than the service then provided by the North British Railway. The WPR served several collieries including the Michael deep mine which was the most productive colliery in Scotland, extracting over 1m tons of coal per year until a disastrous fire closed it in 1967. That signalled the rapid decline of the railway and it closed some 70 years after it opened.
During the 1960s the railway operated large fleet of 0-6-0T and 0-6-0ST locomotives including no. 15, which in 1964 was acquired from the E G Steels of Hamilton (who in turn bought it from the Ministry of Defence). It was built by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock and was overhauled while in the WPR's ownership by its maker, but then did little work before withdrawal in 1971 on closure of the railway.
No. 15 is one of nearly 500 similar locomotives designed by Hunslet for wartime use but produced by a number of locomotive builders, including Andrew Barclay who built just 13.
The naming ceremony on 24th May acknowledges not only David, the present Earl's father, but David, the 2nd Earl - arguably the father of the Wemyss coal mining estate in Scotland. It also marks the part played by the Wemyss Private Railway in shifting millions of tons of coal over 70 years. No. 15 will proudly bear the name Earl David in recognition of a colourful chapter in both mining and railway history.
You can read a feature about the Austerity 0-6-0STs and no. 15 in particular by clicking here.
Sources: Wikipedia; The Wemyss Private Railway (A W Brotchie, Oakwood Press)