Progress March 2024

Week Four Lots of odds and ends this week with many bits getting drilled,  cleaned  and painted. The covers for the firebox mud hole doors had their new hinges riveted into place and more lengths of steel were cut to length in preparation of constructing the crinolines and the cladding retaining sections. More work was done on the wheelsets from … Read More

Progress February 2024

Week Four Over the last two weeks we’ve had a major clear up and rearrangement of the bunko booth so that we could clear a sufficiently large space in which to build the crinolines and cladding sections. We were given a damaged sack barrow so that was stripped and cleaned prior to having the broken section welded up  after which … Read More

Progress January 2024

Final Week This week started with removing the fireman’s side connecting rod so we could then remove the front coupling rod which had been rubbing the paint on the driving axle wheel.  The paintwork was restored and, while it was off, some marks were polished out of the con rod. Other work included silver soldering some pipework for the GWR Railcar,  … Read More

Progress December 2023

Week Four Approaching the end of the year and the overriding activity this week has been the preparation for and manning of the sales stand for the Santa Specials on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  There was much frantic ordering and making of various stock items that had sold out or were about to and the inevitable bouts of sickness meant some … Read More