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The museum's name is derived from the way that the port identified each of its sheds. M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 artefacts and stories, showing Bristol's role in the slave trade and items on transport, people, and the arts. Admission is free. The museum opened in June 2011, with exhibits exploring life and work in the city. [1]
The railway, cranes and vessels all now form part of the working exhibits at M Shed Museum. The museum closed its doors to the public on 29 October 2006. M Shed, the new Museum of Bristol has been created on the site, keeping the same façade and many of the exhibits. It opened 17 June 2011.
In 1978, the Bristol Industrial Museum reopened part of the line as preserved railway using locomotives built in Bristol and formerly used at Avonmouth Docks.At first, it connected the museum with the SS Great Britain, but when commercial rail traffic ceased in 1987 on the remaining branch line, the museum railway expanded to use the branch alongside the New Cut.
Bere Ferrers railway station; Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Devon; Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum; Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire
Petrol Tank Wagon Cardiff, Powell Duffryn: 1954 Shildon [240] 1975-7048 BR: 227009 Mineral Wagon Teesside Bridge & Engineering Dia No. 1/108, Lot No. 2742 1955 York [241] 1982–7005 BR: 743141 China Clay wagon Swindon, BR Dia No. 1/051, Lot No. 2697 1955 York [242] 1995–7146 BR: 873368 Presflo Cement Hopper Gloucester Railway Carriage and ...
Wagon for North Mount Lyell Copper Company, built 1898. The Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works supplied carriages to a number of notable railways around the world, including the Exeter Tramways in 1892, the City and South London Railway in 1894, the Ffestiniog Railway in 1896 (indirectly - removed from Lynton and Barnstaple post FR revival), the Tralee and Dingle Railway and the Lynton and ...
'Operational' wagons are used in engineering trains, other 'heritage' wagons are suitable for use in a demonstration heritage freight train that is used on special occasions but 'museum' wagons are only allowed to run short distances. [92] Passenger-rated vans such as 'Fruit D' are listed in the Coaching stock section.
With the take-over of the line by the Southern Railway in 1923, and the consequent arrival of a new locomotive - Lew - in 1925, the livery was slowly changed to the Southern Maunsell version for locos and passenger stock, and umber for the goods wagons. The loco headlamps which had been black under the L&B were re-painted red.