Saturday, 2 July 2011

1840's carriages, restoration work

two of the six restored pieces
The Museum Director, Chris Littledale, has just finished a period of restoration work on a collection of six very special 5"-scale carriages and pieces of rolling-stock that were originally built back in the 1840's, for their owner, The Steam Museum in County Kildare: http://www.steam-museum.ie/

The carriages left Chris' museum workshop today.
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