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Final Week During the week, the filters and operating rods removed from Gervase last week were cleaned up, the drive chain was removed and, together with the engine sump, was steam cleaned to remove all the muck. Ther mesh screen above the sump was partially blocked by white metal that had dropped on it from a run bearing some years … 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
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
Week Four Tuesday started off with dressing back the previous Sundays’ welds on the side panels of the 541 tender tank and then getting the rear top panel turned over and carried inside for cleaning. The crinoline team were hard at work trial fitting the firebox bands while others were fitting the flanges for the blower and brake ejector exhaust … Read More