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Mayflower is a steam tug built in Bristol in 1861 and now preserved by Bristol Museums Galleries & Archives. She is based in Bristol Harbour at M Shed (formerly Bristol Industrial Museum ). She is the oldest Bristol-built ship afloat, and is believed to be the oldest surviving tug in the world.
The Bristol Harbour Railway (known originally as the Harbour Railway) was a standard-gauge industrial railway that served the wharves and docks of Bristol, England. The line, which had a network of approximately 5 mi (8.0 km) of track, connected the Floating Harbour to the GWR mainline at Bristol Temple Meads .
Bristol Harbour Railway offers train rides along the quayside on selected weekends, using restored steam locomotives and rolling stock. [ 2 ] Moored in front of the museum is the collection of historic vessels, which include the 1934 fireboat Pyronaut [ 2 ] and two tugs: John King built as a diesel tug in 1935, and Mayflower , the world's ...
The museum was managed by Bristol City Council along with nearby preserved industrial relics along Prince's Wharf, including the Bristol Harbour Railway, cranes and a small fleet of preserved vessels. There are no plans to decommission or remove the railway, cranes or vessels. The museum closed its doors to the public on 29 October 2006.
46443 became a popular mainline engine in the 1980s when it was one of the engines used during the 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway traveling along many old branchlines including the old Bristol Harbour Railway. 46521 saw use on the mainline in the 1990s but only saw a limited amount of use hauling excursion trains with one of its ...
150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway. 2nd 1987: Vienna: Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) 150 years of rail transport in Austria. 3rd 1989: Amsterdam: Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) 150 years of rail transport in the Netherlands. 4th 1992: Madrid: RENFE: 50th anniversary of RENFE, opening of the LGV Madrid-Seville, Expo 92 and Summer ...
Judy while on loan to the Bristol Harbour Railway in 2015. Works number 2572, built 1937. Bagnall designed a locomotive that was only 90 inches (2.3 m) high by dropping the cab floor down between the main frames. 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m) long over headstocks and 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m) wide, Judy's 33 in (840 mm) wheels were just 5 feet (1,500 mm) apart, allowing her to negotiate the sharp curve by Par ...
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