This photo is of Pittsburgh Locomotive Works c/n #1516 - Manhattan Railway #236. The site is open to the public twice per year for Open Weekends, typically in June and October. Book in advance with redspottedhanky.com and save 85% advanced bookings. Open on special Open Days only. Find out more about the most powerful steam engine ever built to pull trains on Britain’s railways. Vintage Trains operates services on the main line using locomotives based at Tyseley. Following the presentation there will be a visit to Tyseley Locomotive Works, with the event wrapping up at 17.00. Open to the public twice per year for Open Weekends. Admission is free, but those wishing to attend must register their attendance beforehand. Our newsletter is a great way to hear about all the Vintage Trains excursions and other exciting things!
Tyseley Locomotive Works is situated 1000 feet west of Tyseley Railway Station.
Today, it is the home base for Vintage Trains and its Shakespeare Express. We went on a wonderful steam train trip today.
The Vintage Trains Mainline Programme features a regular summer steam service between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon called the Shakespeare Express. Steaming Ahead: Reginald Marsh Watercolors of Locomotives This exhibition was made possible in part by the generosity of the Robert T. Leo Jr. Exhibition Fund. Tyseley Locomotive Works is located in Tyseley on the A41 (Warwick Road). During the lockdown, the majority of Vintage Trains and Tyseley staff are working from home. Take a trip with the Brush Type 2 locomotive, designed for life on Britain’s regional railways in the 50s and 60s. Find out more about this flexible locomotive Class able to run either on third rail power or on its own internal diesel engine. Read more about these Pacific 4-6-2 engines designed for mainline passenger services on the GNR and LNER. National Railway Museum-preserved LMS Princess Coronation Class No.6229 Duchess of Hamilton at Tyseley Locomotive Works.
Vintage Trains Ltd - Registered in England No 2224319. Climb aboard Southern Region’s BRCW Type 3 and learn more about where you can get up close and personal with it today. With the demise of steam on BR in the summer of 1968, the passenger roundhouse was demolished in the same year, with plans to do similar to the coal stage Tyseley Locomotive Works Visitor Centre is a working engineering restoration centre and home base for Vintage Trains and the Shakespeare Express.
The Cotswold Explorer. Download/Read Vintage Trains Policy Information. The food was excellent. Explore the detail of this Southern Region locomotive designed to run exclusively on the third rail system throughout the 1960s and 70s. Tyseley Locomotive Works Visitor Centre is a working engineering restoration centre on the site of a former Great Western locomotive depot and works to the south-east of Birmingham. The whole experience is truly superb. Thank you Vintage Trains; we will return! Parking lot Tyseley Locomotive Works, formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum is the engineering arm of steam railtour promoter Vintage Trains based in Birmingham, England. Explore more about this Electric Mixed Traffic 1 locomotive originally built at LNER Doncaster Works for eventual service on the Woodhead Line. Discover more about this hard-working diesel-mechanical shunter that saw over a decade of active service in yards in the 1950s and 60s. redspottedhanky.com is the easy way to buy cheap train tickets online. Free parking will be available at Tyseley Locomotive Works, 670 Warwick Road.
Today, it is the home base for Vintage Trains and its Shakespeare Express. It is the identical sister locomotive (as built) of Pittsburgh Locomotive Works #1515 - Manhattan Railway #201 which would become New York Dock #5 (first) in 1905. unknown photographer authors collection added 21 September 2009. As such, we ask that your primary method of contacting us is via email to Tickets@VintageTrains.co.uk where we will be able to respond faster than if you leave us a voice message. © Vintage Trains Ltd 1999-2017.
The preserved original GWR coaling stage is visible in the background. Get on board Class 74, rebuilt from the earlier Class 71 to deliver greater power – and line speeds of up to 100mph on the BR Southern Region.