STATFOLD’S MUSEUM IN A MILLION!

For years I have come to expect the unexpected when visiting Graham Lee’s private Statfold Barn Railway in the rolling Staffordshire countryside just north of Tamworth.

Graham, who holds the pre-1971 steam era rights to Hunslet and other manufacturers including Hudswell Clarke, Avonside and Manning Wardle, has spent the past two decades globetrotting in search of unwanted industrial narrow gauge locomotives.

And at each open day for enthusiasts, there is more often than not a ‘new’ locomotive in service, having been restored from a heap of scrap metal barely still on wheels.

However, when I received an invitation for the opening of a new museum at Statfold on March 10, I assumed that