Caister Castle

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Ventured North for a few days over the weekend to visit offspring and we dropped into Caister Castle on Sunday which has a transport museum with a claimed 200 cars, bikes and a bus! At £22 a head the cost was a bit of a shock and they don’t allow dogs inside the display building, apparently down to insurance as a dog bit a visitor at some point so now insurance prohibits dogs. All exhibits are stuffed and mounted, we were told “decommissioned” with batteries, mags and dynamo’s / alternators removed and majority of oil drained again due to insurance, in case they catch fire. Bit of a shame as they have a good collection of steam cars, other cars and bikes from very early up to the 2000’s. Would be good to see some of the older stuff out and about.

Outside there is a large Marshal portable, looks mostly complete, remnants of a fire on the grate but from the motion it clearly hasn’t turned a wheel recently. There was no information board to give any clue as to its history or any details about it.









Round the corner, sleeping peacefully and slowly rusting away is a Manning Wardle 060 saddle tank. Again no information on where it came from. Looks forever destined to sit at the signal that never moves.





And for the bus enthusiast, a Riker motor bus.











Paul.