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Tyseley Locomotive Works, formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum, is the engineering arm of steam railtour promoter Vintage Trains based in Birmingham, England. It occupies part of the former Great Western Railway 's Tyseley depot , built in 1908 to accommodate expanding operations in the West Midlands, particularly the opening of the North ...
After attending West Somerset Railway Spring Steam Gala 2009, [9] visiting the Severn Valley Railway for summer 2009, and being displayed at the Tyseley Open Day on 25 October 2009, it was dismantled over the winter for a thorough overhaul, which was completed in around 20 months. The engine was on display at the Tyseley Open Days on 25–26 ...
In preservation, it has been based at Tyseley TMD, now Tyseley Locomotive Works. In 1967, carrying a Great Western livery, it hauled trains to mark closure of the GWR route to Birkenhead, from King's Cross to Newcastle and over the Settle-Carlisle Line. In 1972, it joined in the "Return to Steam" tours.
Tyseley Locomotive Works Operational Yes Tyseley Acquired in 2022. D1755: 47773: 47 - BR Two-Tone Green Tyseley Locomotive Works Operational Yes Tyseley Repainted in May 2021. D433 50033: 50: Glorious: BR Blue Large Logo Tyseley Locomotive Works Operational No Kidderminster: On three year loan to the Fifty Fund. [6] D8142 20142: 20: Sir John ...
Tyseley Locomotive Works: Birmingham: Birmingham: Railway: Railway depot, workshops, engines and artefacts, viewing on open days VIVID: Birmingham: Birmingham: Art: Gallery for media arts Walsall Leather Museum: Walsall: Walsall: Industry: Former Victorian leather factory, history of the local leather and saddle-making trades Warwick Arts ...
Its existing locomotive depot at Bordesley was too small, and so land was acquired to build a G.J. Churchward-style twin-turntable layout depot, allowing for extension towards the Warwick Road for two further 65 feet (20 m) turntables should the need arise. The east turntable was nominally allocated to passenger locomotives, the west to freight ...
After its boiler certificate expired in 1997, it was sent to be displayed at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, where it remained until May 2017 when it was returned to Tyseley. Defiant is at present stored at Tyseley Locomotive Works, but makes appearances at Tyseley's open weekends as a static exhibit. A group called "The Defiant Club" are ...
Presently one of three GWR 7800 Manor Class locomotives based at the SVR, the other two being 7802 Bradley Manor (which is also owned by the Erlestoke Manor Fund) and GWR 7819 Hinton Manor. 7812's boiler ticket expired in January 2018, after which the locomotive was moved to Tyseley Locomotive Works for overhaul. It re-entered service in April ...