LOCOMOTION.... the National Railway Museum at Shildon, Co. Durham.

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A recent trip to Shildon found a number of the locos festooned with flags and portraits of the queen (to celebrate her 90th birthday). This meant that photography was mostly limited to details shots of valve gear etc. 

Detail of the crosshead and parts of the valve gear of Sierra Leone Railway no. 85, a 2-6-2 tank built in 1954 by the Hunslett Engine Co. Leeds. It was aquired by the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway in 1975 and became the W&LLR no 14.



Two shots of the huge single driving wheels and splashers of the L&NWR 2-2-2 CORNWALL.

Crosshead of the GNR Atlantic no. 251...

..... and the big end of the same loco.

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