Following many months of stripping down, needle gunning and sanding to bare metal, both cabs have now been painted in primer and undercoat, and a start to the gloss top coat has been made. (Click on the post title for pictures) click to continue reading
Work continues unabated on D6948, with the buffer beam skirts now successfully fitted to both ends following completion of work at no.2 end. Thanks to some patient and high quality fabrication work by Mark Stanley and Phil Seymour, the loco now has … Continue reading
In preparation for a driver experience working this Sunday (14th October), 37215 was moved from Toddington to Winchcombe over the newly relaid Chicken Curve today. As it has not hauled a train for nearly 2 years, it was then used … Continue reading
After just short of 2 years, the GWR finally becomes a ‘joined up’ railway again on the 30th October, when a series of special trains will work over the full length of the line from Laverton to Cheltenham Racecourse to celebrate the re-opening of the line and to thank the thousands of people who have helped to raise the £1m to rebuild both the Gotherington and Chicken Curve embankment collapses. This will also be the first time that the railway will operate over its full 11.75 miles, as the northwards extension to Laverton was opened after the Winchcombe embankment collapse. click to continue reading
