Museum
S14: Manning Wardle 1210
0-6-0ST steam locomotive "Sir Berkeley"
| Built | 1890, at Leeds (class L) |
| Weight | 19 tons 4 cwt |
| Length over buffers | 22' 5" (approx 6.8 m) |
| Driving wheels | 3' 0" diameter (approx 91 cm) |
| Cylinders | 2 (inside), 12" diameter (approx 305 mm) |
| Previously worked | Cranford Ironstone Co., Kettering |
| Entered collection | Purchased by Roger Crombleholme in 1965, and now owned by the Vintage Carriages Trust |
| Current status | Undergoing overhaul |
More details of this locomotive are given in our stockbook.
Go on to steam locomotive S15: Kitson 5469.
Go back to steam locomotive S13: Hunslet 2387.
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S9: Manning Wardle 1601
0-6-0ST steam locomotive "Matthew Murray"
| Built | 1903, at Leeds (class L) |
| Weight | 20 tons 10 cwt |
| Length over buffers | 23' 3" (approx 7.1 m) |
| Driving wheels | 3' 0" diameter (approx 90 cm) |
| Cylinders | 2 (inside), 12" diameter (approx 305 mm) |
| Previously worked | Kent Portland Cement Works, near Gravesend |
| Entered collection | Purchased from the Peak Railway Society in 1989 |
| Current status | Operational |
More details of this locomotive are given in our stockbook.
Go on to steam locomotive S10: Hudswell-Clarke 1882.
Go back to steam locomotive S8: Peckett 2003.
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S8: Peckett 2003
0-4-0ST steam locomotive "John Blenkinsop"
| Built | 1941, at Bristol (class W7) |
| Weight | 30 tons 0 cwt |
| Length over buffers | 23' 2" (approx 7.0 m) |
| Driving wheels | 3' 3" diameter (approx 98 cm) |
| Cylinders | 2 (outside), 14" diameter (approx 355 mm) |
| Previously worked | British Nuclear Fuels, at Salwick, near Preston |
| Entered collection | Purchased from British Nuclear Fuels in 1972 |
| Current status | On loan to the Ribble Steam Railway at Preston |
More details of this locomotive are given in our stockbook.
Go on to steam locomotive S9: Manning Wardle 1601.
Go back to steam locomotive S7: Hartmann 2110.
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Museum
We have a fascinating collection of objects which between them illustrate the history of the Middleton Railway, the history of industrial railways like it, and the history of the industry that grew up in the Leeds area for building railway locomotives, cranes and other associated machinery. These pages will tell you more about these objects.
Rolling Stock Collection
Our collection of railway rolling stock (ie locomotives, coaches, wagons, etc) is the heart of our museum collection. Separate pages give more details of different groups of rolling stock, as follows.
- Steam Locomotives;
- Diesel and Electric Locomotives;
- Coaches (and other passenger vehicles);
- Goods wagons;
- Cranes;
- Made in Leeds
Some of these items of rolling stock are operational, meaning that you may be able to see them running in trains (or even ride in them or behind them), while others are in the course of being restored to operational condition in our workshops, so that normally you would not be able to see them. Many of the rest are on display while they are waiting for work that will restore them to operational condition; and there are just a few that are simply waiting for this sort of work, but are not yet in a condition to be displayed properly.
Other Items
Details of other items in our museum collection will be added to these pages in due course.
History
A separate page summarises the history of the Middleton Railway, as follows.
A much more detailed account of this history is published in our official history, which is available from our shop.
For our Diamond Jubilee in 2020, the corona virus pandemic meant that most of the activities to mark this anniversary had to be cancelled, and so instead we created a separate page containing archive Images.
More recently, following the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II, we created a page containing a reflection on the passage of time, which is what history is all about.
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