Week 4 On Monday the boiler was lifted out, loaded onto a lorry and headed off to HBSS in Liverpool. This left us to rebuild the end wall of the boiler house and effect some repairs where the weather has taken its toll over the years. The manifold pad removed last week was cleaned up in preparation for having a … Read More
Week 4 Christmas week but we still kept soldiering on. Monday and Tuesday were the last two days of the Santa Specials so the sales team were kept fully occupied raising funds for the project. A sincere thank you is in order to all those shareholders who turned out to help man the stand over the whole ten days. Everyone took … Read More
Final Week Despite working on five days this week we haven’t actually done anything on the loco. Reason is that this is our busiest fundraising period with ten days of manning our sales stand during the running of the Santa Specials. Tuesday involved gathering together all the stuff we were going to need, Thursday was transporting and erecting the gazebo … Read More
Week 4 This week’s work started with the concrete pour for our new entrance ramp followed by some floor painting. The boiler expansion brackets were needle gunned to get the rust out of the hollows on the back that accommodate the boiler’s stay heads after which they were given a coat of heat resistant paint. In preparation for Sunday’s riveting … Read More