North Eastern Meccano Society
Shildon - May 2016
As usual we held an exhibition at the Locomotion Museum at Shildon on May 29/30th 2016. Here is a selection of photos from that show.
Pictures from Locomotion at Shildon - May 2016
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Photo - John Witchard
Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Barry Richardson's model of the Tumbler. A fairground ride which has two rotating arms that support two revolving platforms which each have four spinning cars with passengers (29/05/2016)
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Photo - John Witchard
Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Barry Richardson's model of the Tumbler. A fairground ride which has two rotating arms that support two revolving platforms which each have four spinning cars with passengers (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Barry Richardson's model of the Tumbler. A fairground ride which has two rotating arms that support two revolving platforms which each have four spinning cars with passengers (29/05/2016)
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Photo - John Witchard
Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Barry Richardson's model of a Hungarian Steam Engine. The unusual feature of this engine is that the twin flywheels revolve in opposite directions and perpendicular to the piston rods and cylinders, unlike most stream engines in which the cylinder, cranks and flywheels are all on the same shaft (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Barry Richardson's model of the fairground ride 'Rising Swingers' (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Barry Richardson's model of a Fire-Fighting Tug Boat. it was based on a No.8 model from the 1970s (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Bob Seaton with his large display of Meccano models (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Bob Seaton's model of the 4-6-2 locomotive 'City of Sheffeild' (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Bob Seaton's 1/12 scale model of BR No.92220 'Evening Star' class 9F 2-10-0 locomotive. It is currently under construction with just the Mainframes, Wheels and Coupling Rods complete (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Bob Seaton's model of the Southern Railway 4-6-4T locomotive 'Remembrance' (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Brian Chaffer with his model of a digger (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Brian Chaffer's model of a digger (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Brian Chaffer's model of a 4-4-0 locomotive (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Brian Harper with his Meccano version of the popular board game 'Mousetrap' (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Brian Harper's Meccano version of the popular board game 'Mousetrap' (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Brian Robinson's model of an articulated lorry with a load of a bridge on it. (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Colin Milne's model of a 0-6-0T tank locomotive (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Colin Milne's model a YAS06 Atkinson Steam Wagon with trailer and load (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - William Scott (aged 9) built these models models (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Dennis Edward with his model of 'Turbinia'. This was the first steam turbine driven ship (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Dennis Edward's model of a Water Pumping Steam Engine c1880 (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Dennis Edward's model of a Water Pumping Steam Engine c1880 (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Dennis Edward's model of a Dutch windmill made from nickel plated Meccano (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of a Twin Cylinder tumbling-beam Engine (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of James Coombes Table Engine. The original worked in a Bristol Colliery from the early 1800s for over a century (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of a beam engine (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's musical box. It will actually play music (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of Sans Pareil. The original locomotive was built in 1829 by Timothy Hackworth to take part in the Rainhill Trials. (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of Tintin's sailing ship (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Fred Thompson's model of the Eiffel Tower (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - George Roy's ping-pong ball roller (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - George Roy's model of a steam engine (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - George Roy's model of a beam engine (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - George Roy's display of a number of small models (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - George Roy's display of a number of the Evolution set models (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Harry Harker's ping-pong ball roller (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Harry Harker's model of Achille Philion's steam carriage of 1890 (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Harry Harker's models of an 1885 Benz, the first internal combustion car and Daimler's 1885 Motorcycle (the world's first true motorcycle) (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Harry Harker's model of Daimler's 1885 Motorcycle (the world's first true motorcycle) (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - A few more of Harry Harker's models - tractor, ships and Renault F1 racing car (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Joe Etheridge's model of a French Pacific Locomotive (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Joe Etheridge's model of railway breakdown crane (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Joe Etheridge's model of railway breakdown crane (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Joe Etheridge's model of railway breakdown crane (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Joe Etheridge's model of the 'Swingboats' fairground ride (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Joe Etheridge's model of the 'Swingboats' fairground ride (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John Bader's models of a 4-2-2 locomotive and tender and a much smaller model of a simple breakdown crane train in nickel plated Meccano (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John Bader's model of a vintage omnibus in nickel plated Meccano (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John and Sue Herdman with the display of Meccano models (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John Herdman's model of Blackpool's articulated tram (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John Herdman's model of an electric locomotive and a small diesel shunter (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John Herdman's model of an American locomotive. This is based on Meccano's locomotive set, but much modified (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - John Nuttall's model of the Metropolitan Railway Class K2 2-6-4T locomotive (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Norman Brown's model of a 'High Capacity Dredger' featuring fully functioning remote control of; slew, luff, hoist together with open and close of the 'Clam Shell' grab (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Norman Brown's model of a 'High Capacity Dredger' featuring fully functioning remote control of; slew, luff, hoist together with open and close of the 'Clam Shell' grab (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Norman Brown's model of a 'High Capacity Dredger' featuring fully functioning remote control of; slew, luff, hoist together with open and close of the 'Clam Shell' grab (29/05/2016)
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Photo - John Witchard
Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Rob Mitchell's model of Michael the Magician (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Rob Mitchell's model of Michael the Magician (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Rob Mitchell's model of a Tugboat. It was pre-war model 7.18 (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - Rob Mitchell's Plutolabe. It shows the relative movements of Pluto and its moons (29/05/2016)
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Shildon Exhibition May 2016 - The Mens section of the Trindon Station Community Centre at Cree displayed this large artillery gun (29/05/2016)
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