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Dist:0.2km<br/>This is Norton Hall Farm to the North West of Colchester (marked on O.S 1:25,000 series as Boarded Barn)
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.4km<br/>The road ahead leads to Wakes Colne Green.
©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.7km<br/>Most trains started at Colchester and turned off onto the branch at Marks Tey, to terminate at Sudbury. The train is heading for Sudbury - the red oil lamp is just visible.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.7km<br/>Look beyond this stile and you can just make out another one the other side of the small grass field.
©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.7km<br/>The road appears to have no name.
©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.9km<br/>BR Class 04 No. D2279 shunts some stock around the yard at Chappel and Wakes Colne. The restoration stock is in the background.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>A view of the goods yard at the East Anglian Railway museum, there wouldn't have been a water tower. The BR B 951771 Brake van was built Faverdale in 1952. To the right of that is BR B 160206 Mineral Wagon, built 1958.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>One of only two built at Stratford, due to lack of capacity at Swindon: on ex GWR 6 wheeled milk tank underframe. Only surviving cattle wagon with accommodation for attendant. Information from Vintage Carriage Trust http://www.cs.vintagecarriagestrust.org/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=82
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>View north towards the signal box. Railway wagons are brought into use for the beer festival
©Andy Parrett
Dist:0.9km<br/>A view of the Great Eastern Railway N7 locomotive, this engine was the last built at Stratford works and the last N7. Bought by the EARM it has run at the North Norfolk railway on long term loan but has been at EARM for a few weeks. [[[1758772]]] [[[1755469]]] [[[1386725]]] [[[1479987]]] [[[1478682]]]
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>Looking North towards Bures and Sudbury. Part of the railway museum can be seen on the right.
©Andy Parrett
Dist:0.9km<br/>N7 69621 is seen here in the locomotive shed, this is its home although it spends most of its time at Weybourne.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>A look at the signal box (operational for the museum) and other stock. A GER Brake can be seen in the distance. This is a Great Eastern Railway Third Class brake coach. At present it is a body on its underframe only, generally in good condition but with no running gear. Brown, Marshall and Copmany Ltd built it for the Great Eastern Railway in 1873 for £256. It is 22ft 6in long and was withdrawn from service in 1902. It was sold for the pricely sum of £8, and was used as a chapel at Great Wenham until after the Second World War , and during this time it received its present corrugated iron roof. Since its arrival at the Museum on 6th February 1988, the only work to date has been repaint the exterior for weatherproofing. It is grounded to the north of Chappel North Signal box, and it is at present being used for storing Carriage and Wagon permanent way equipment. Taken from http://www.earm.co.uk/historical/rsdb/carriages/index.php#04
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>This late 19th C goods shed is one of the most impressive around today. It has been restored to its 1891 condition, complete with an internal crane (from Safron Walden). Goods wagons entered via rail before the freight was unloaded off onto carts or later lorries.
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.9km<br/>This vehicle was built in August 1890 by the Great Eastern Railway at Stratford as a six-compartment main line 3rd class coach, weighing approximately 4½ tons. As such it would have had upholstered seats and been fitted with continuous brakes of the Westinghouse type. Three of the compartments were designated as ‘Smoking’ and fitted with extra ventilators on the roof, and had the windows marked by etched glass signs saying ‘Smoking’. Originally this coach would have been finished in varnished teak livery, then in later years a painted teak colour followed, in around 1919, by GER crimson lake of which there are still traces left on the headstock. At about the time of the grouping in 1923, when the LNER took over the GER, 1041 received steam heating and reverted to painted teak livery. It had LNER markings applied, and was renumbered to 60704 in the LNER series for GER coaches. As more bogie stock became available, 60704 was downrated to branch line use, and its contemporaries ran on the Stour Valley line through Chappel. After a working life of 45 years, 60704 was withdrawn in 1935 and the body sold as a bungalow to a site at Homersfield on the Waveney Valley line, near Bungay in Suffolk. It was subsequently bought for preservation, and under many layers of paint and tar, it is in a remarkable state of preservation. At present, the Bungay coach currently rests on Platform 2, where it functions as a shop under the name of “The Curio Coach” Taken from http://www.earm.co.uk/historical/rsdb/carriages/index.php#curio
©Ashley Dace

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