Submitted by Colin Hall on 28 February, 2019 - 14:15
We have been investigating the purchase of a support coach to run with The Unknown Warrior and have been making some low level enquiries over the last couple of years. A main line registered BR Mk1 BSK has now become available. We have registered an interest and expect to be conducting an inspection soon.
This talk takes place at the Pauling Human Sciences Centre, 58, Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire. Speaker is David Bradshaw, the LMS Patriot New Build Project chairman
Submitted by Colin Hall on 1 February, 2019 - 07:41
A dialogue has started with Riley and Son Engineering, and tender responses are still awaited from The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust and Railway Forgings and Castings. However Tyseley Locomotive Works recently informed the project that they will not tender for the contract for workload reasons.
In the meantime work continues at Crewe Heritage Centre on the engine's lubrication pipework, led by Nigel Day.
The emphasis in January was on organising the transfer to Tyseley of our many components stored in containers at West Shed. A site meeting back at West Shed on 8th January inspected the contents and agreed a methodology for sorting and transferring components that cannot be simply transported in the containers without risk. An extended team of volunteers has been assembled for this special task. Our original plan to complete the move in late January had to be deferred to February because of temporary vehicular access restrictions at Tyseley (outside the control of TLW Ltd.).