The nameplate was purchased from British Railways Doncaster Works soon after disposal of the locomotive for the staggering sum of £7 & 10 shillings, which represented the scrap cost of 75lb of brass at that time. The Trust is looking for a proposal for detailed design, development, manufacturing, testing and certification. RailAdvent Shop

This is the moment our brand new B17 locomotive was born. for a wonderful day out from the West Midlands to Scotland’s capital city. In a recent meeting with zonal heads, it was decided that proper preservation of heritage items needed to be ensured. Cast combined spring hanger bracket and brake shaft carrier with cross stay. Good progress has been made on the educational support materials for use in 5 trial Schools this academic year. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Brian hall (chairman) and Tony Brzosko (member) visited Blundell Park on 6thAugust to meet John Fenty who is the major shareholder of the club and Stephen Marley (Director) to make the presentation. Good News – a rare commodity at the moment. Owners of 'Helmingham Hall' nameplate is announced - February 2019. By a show of hands, favoured railway locations were :- North Norfolk, Llangollen, Great Central, Nene Valley and Epping & Ongar. (function(){var ml="a%i01cst.mo4erul",mi="=02?7:>=61;30467<0985:9",o="";for(var j=0,l=mi.length;j

As a result of the time overrun on the first part of the meeting, discussion was confined to the proposed Member’s Day Out for 2019 and Member’s preferences with respect to operation of each of the two tenders owned by the Trust. He continued that it was an enjoyable day out as expressed by our members and indeed the staff who between them had established an excellent camaraderie.

Dual air brake cylinders have successfully been added in place of the original vacuum type maintaining all the key interfaces and the necessary access for service and maintenance. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. © 2020 The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust.

Following completion of the static mainframe last year, we have been involved in a protracted period of redesign based on the needs of the Rolling Chassis. Each frame plate was correctly orientated whilst suspended by the crane in the yard before slowly entering the works shed where they were carefully guided into position and located into support frames. We look forward to inviting all Members to the ninth Annual General Meeting on Saturday 10, During the 1935 - 36 season Grimsby Town were a well respected First Division team and began their FA Cup campaign in the 3, More recently, and through the interest and help from Stephen Marley, a new member who joined us this year from Grimsby, the trust prepared a framed photo and a summary of the service history of 61650 Grimsby Town, to be presented to the football club for display next to the nameplate. The work of our volunteers at the interface with the public continues to be a vital factor in encouraging new members to join the project and had clearly been successful. Nameplate and number plate over the centre horn gap. DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING PROGRESS REPORT SUMMER 2017, Frame Stay Programme & Rolling Chassis Plan. It was explained that this would incur considerable cost by virtue of large components and sub-assemblies being involved over a two-year period and dependent upon the availability of sufficient funds.

A further audit is planned, this time to inspect the completed mainframe structure with the Ricardo Rail representative present.

The meeting reviewed our processes covering engineering design and control, procurement, manufacturing control and non-conformance management. Other views around the country feature a 'Bullied' on the turntable at Weymouth, a local train in the lake district, the Nith Valley, Sonning Cutting, the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, an A4 at Gleneagles and Duchess of Sutherland. A wonderful journey from the home of Tornado in Darlington crossing some of the most scenic railway in England. Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques are being used to create the design definition for the mainframes from a combination of the 1935 drawings available from the National Railway Museum (NRM) and the necessary improvements to ensure the locomotive is compliant with extant legislation. Sir Rod as our Patron and we look forward to meeting him in the future to share a common interest in railways as we progress with Spirit of Sandringham. Alternatively, please call the project on 07527 670436 for further details. Some examples were on display which illustrated some of the opportunities identified earlier and possibly appropriate for other Local Area Groups to pursue. Thank you to those of you who had kindly indicated a wish to attend and those who had tendered apologies. With the completion of the frame stays and delivery to Llangollen the next major activity is to complete the building of the static chassis which will be starting shortly. bringing a legend of the rails back to life. For the rolling chassis, design work was reported as well advanced for hornblock castings and horn stays which when released will form the first components to be manufactured. Steam engine Tornado trapped on North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Tornado locomotive hits 100mph on mainline rail network, Hundreds turn out to see steam train trip to Great Yarmouth, BBC in Siberia: What you didn't see. The requirement is for a Diagram 100A boiler as fitted to the B1s and retro-fitted to the B17s. 61650 Grimsby Town was withdrawn and broken up at Doncaster in 1960.