| During the visit to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway by the Bluebell tourists, a small party "jumped the rails" at Winchcombe and walked the one mile or so into the town. In the town, we found the Winchcombe Railway Museum. Accessed from a small gateway in an unassuming frontage, a small passageway led to an amazing collection of railway ephemera crammed into a half acre of Cotswold back garden. |
Timers and Token Machines 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__01_.jpg |
More token machines 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__02_.jpg |
Just a "few" railway signs fixed to the wall 600x800 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__03_.jpg |
The garden is filled with sheds and other outbuildings (some of which are railway carraiges) which in turn contain a stunning collection of ephemera 600x800 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__04_.jpg |
One of the sheds cobtained a collection of crockery and glassware from named dining trains 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__05_.jpg |
The garden also contained dozens of signals - some of which could be operated by ground frames. Here somebody waits forlornly for the next train!! 600x800 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__06_.jpg |
Loads more signs 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__07_.jpg |
A complete ticket stall - the seller is not an exhibit - honest!! 600x800 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__08_.jpg |
Loads of original posters 600x800 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__09_.jpg |
A relief map of the Great Western Railway territory 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__10_.jpg |
A railways carriage in use an outbuilding 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__11_.jpg |
Inside the carraige were even more exhibits and railway artefacts - some of them very lifelike :-) 800x600 Winchcombe_Railway_Museum__12_.jpg |
