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Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Lynda Poulter
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This is one of the Engine Sheds at [[172457]] Railway Museum. The engine is Minnie (#358) an 0-6-0 saddle tank engine of 1878 by Fox Walker Ltd. One of only four survivors from this manufacturer. She worked at Skenningrove Iron Company for most of the twentieth century. She has been in the hands of railway preservationists since 1968.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This is a siding at the Mangapps Railway Museum. The photo was taken from the carriage that can be seen standing at [[172457]] Station
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km north<br/>A natty little railcar built in 1965, resides at [[172457]] Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch. There is a chance that if “Novelty”, built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite had won the Rainhill trials in 1829 the rail network might have developed more like modern roads with small cars like this one rather than than the overgrown colliery haulage system which grew out of Stephenson’s ideas. However in those days freight was the real money spinner so small rail cars were only ever used for maintenance work. You can see two London Underground Trains in the background
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Lynda Poulter
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This is the platform and one of the diesel locos at Mangapps Railway Museum. It is probably unique in the U.K rail preservation world that the 1 mile stretch of standard gauge track owned by the Jolly family was never part of the national rail network. Probably the best privately owned “train set” there is! For more info see http://www.mangapps.co.uk/
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This Great Western boundary marker is a tad out of place in [[172457]] Railway Museum which mainly depicts East Anglian railways.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.5km north<br/>This Poster in the Waiting Room of [[172457]] Railway Museum announces the closure of the Witham to Maldon line. A relic of which can still be seen near Wickham Bishops see [[153888]]
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.6km north<br/>
©Lynda Poulter
Dist:0.6km north<br/>This is the signal box at [[172457]] Railway Museum looking west along the track. In the main engine shed there is a working signal set up that the public are allowed to operate.
©Glyn Baker
Dist:0.6km north<br/>For this area of Essex the church is of an unusual design whereby the dimensions of the chancel is the same as the nave with no real division and, because of that, it has a total of nine bays. It mainly dates from the 14th century and probably replaces an earlier Norman structure as the font is c.1200. It is a well cared for church and stands a good distance north of the original village that lies by the river Crouch.
©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.7km east<br/>This Anglian Water company facility stands near Romans Farm on a footpath that runs from Marsh Rd to Mill Rd in Burnham-on-Crouch
©Glyn Baker
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>This is the end of the line on the Mangapps Railway, The buffers can be seen in the background. The train on the left includes a snow plough for more info see http://www.mangapps.co.uk/
©Glyn Baker
Dist:1.0km south<br/>View westward, towards Wickford; ex-Great Eastern, (Shenfield) - Wickford - Southminster line, electrified in 1986.
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:1.1km south<br/>
©John Myers

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