MHR Restorations and Overhauls

Busy Urie loco society team working on 499 yesterday. 19/09/2015 Nice to see great progress on both the Urie's.

 

I know it is often asked how 75079 or 41312 are progressing, but it seems a long time since I've heard anything about 76017? Is there a chance she will be gracing the Autumn Gala or next years Spring Gala?

 

Maybe the Spring Gala. Depends on the boiler shop

 

35005 update on the MHR web site

http://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/canpac-project-update

 

I for one hope the pink stays

 

I worry about you............. is there something you're not telling us?.......

It'll stay - underneath a coat of the proper colour!

 

HaHa I'm an evil sod

I remember how much trouble the blue caused putting her pink would cause people to lose there ****.

 

Although it is no longer a Mid Hants engine, of course, reports are coming in that 31806 is having an interesting time at the NYMR gala - reckoned by some associated with it to be the hardest it has worked since leaving Barry........

 

Well it previously had a pretty easy life on the Mid Hants!

 

Cheeky!

Though exactly what relevance an ex resident has to do with this thread is beyond me, seeing as its home is now the Purbecks & not the South Downs........... never mind.....

 

Well, if you go back to post 1 of this thread, the very first sentence refers to 31806 and all I said was thart it had an eay life on the MHR so I'd say that it was totally relevant.

 

So who is for a Somerset and Dorset 50th Anniversary of Closure themed Spring Gala then? A nice welcome into traffic for 76017 and a great farewell for 34007.............. (I think the 76000's worked over the S&D?)

A potential line-up of:
34007
41312
45379
76017
92212

plus a visiting Bulleid or Standard?

 

What about a 4F or 53809. They would look great on the freight train.

 

How about a Jinty?

 

I didn't get to ride on the S&D but I lived a few hundred yards away from its track bed for a decade and walked all the accessible bits. To me the MHR is the heritage line that gets closest to how I imagine the old S&D to have been. It would be wonderful to have a tribute gala on this magnificent line, with the Alps making a good substitute for the legendary climb on the much lamented S&D!

 

We had one o them in 2010 when the 7F showed up.......

 

Ah, yes I remember but it was the wrong colour!

 

I hear 34092 is making some nice noises up on the NYMR... I imagine she'd sound just as impressive on the Alps!

James

 

Breaking news, it appears that the boiler for 41312 has been steam tested today (outside of the frames).

 

Does anyone know when the Great Missenden signalbox is being moved from Four Marks to Ropley? I would quite like to see that.