Week Three More of the same this week with cladding sheets being put up, marked, taken down, trimmed using the plasma cutter and then put back on the boiler and ratchet strapped tight to the crinoline to re-check the fit. We also made some of the cladding retaining straps and cold riveted the clamping brackets to the ends. More of … Read More
Week Four As well as the usual three working days this week, four of us travelled up to Leeds on Monday for the funeral of our old friend and colleague Dick Weeks. RIP Dick, you will be missed. Work on Gervase is progressing with the roof section bought in out of the rain so it could be cleaned, the flaking old … Read More
Remembering our lost colleagues 4253 AGM Including: Colleagues Remembered – Dick Weekes Project 30541 Tender Update Boiler and Crinolines Report Archive Pictures of 4253
Week Four This week, it was necessary to move 4253 so it could swap positions in the shed with Yank No 65 so all the Lobo had to be taken down before it was pulled outside. This shot shows the majority of the crinoline bands in position round the boiler and their joining pieces. After it was shunted back into the … Read More
Final Week of the Year! Tuesday, Christmas Eve, was all hands on the Tombola and Sales Stand for the last day of the Santa Specials which was well worth while as we raised just under £1,000 to replenish the coffers. One lucky lad won a Hornby Santa’s Express train set. On Friday, the team were putting the finishing touches to the … Read More
Week Four This week has involved yet more of the same for the 4253 boiler crinoline team with sections of flat bar getting shaped, welded together, drilled and, where necessary, the holes countersunk which, on long curved lengths is not that easy. However, more and more of the sections have now been successfully fabricated and trial fitted. Also, a batch … Read More