45699 Galatea

have just got round to posting this video of galatea as a rolling chassis being shunted to the erecting shop, should be nearly finished now, or maybe not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6yVHk6CJI

there's also a wobbly shot of tangmere's cab, still outside middle shed mon21stjune.

 

Nearly finished? There isn't any valve gear on it for a start...

Regards,

Dan

 

well that video was taken 24th may but you're right its probably not nearly finished.

 

It has all its wheels and they're all turning. I'd say that's a great improvement!

Regards

 

Just because its a rolling chassis doesn't mean its on the final stretch. There still the valve gear and motion to be installed, and the boiler plus final pipework etc. What is shown above is simply the bare skeleton. I'd say we've still got a while to waiting before we get to see 45699 strutting her stuff.

 

Going back to the caption competition on page 2, how about "all agreed that the Picasso rebuild left a lot to be desired".

 

What we dont know, and should not speculate about, is whether Carnforth have made any further progress with the firebox repair which from the earlier images on this thread is/was "extensive".

A rolling chassis must denote progress, at least in respect of the "bottom half", but I suspect they are still a long way from turning out a pristine ex-works "Jubilee".

Something to look foreward though, 46115 and 45699 out over the S & C with "Thames Clyde Express" or "Waverley" headboard.

 

How about both locos passing each other on the S&C one day, one with TCE headboard, other with Waverley headboard?

 

I think seeing Galatea and Leander in steam side by side would be a bit of a race.. 5690's ticket's up soon surely ?

 

Think it first steamed in 03/04 so sadly it seems so... hopefully the overhaul won't include anything too major to sort out and this beautiful machine will live again.

 

What a tribute that would be to the late Brian Oliver.

 

Why single him out? What about all the other stalwarts who have put so much into saving and keeping these loco's alive, such as Peter Beet, Bahamas LS, Pat whitehouse and currently David Smith?

 

Absolutely - for those with memories that long.

Without the pioneers today's enthusiasts would be hard pressed for choice.

 

conireland: 45699 hasn't been in steam since withdrawal from BR service in the 1960s, and with a driving wheel cut through was regarded as a "mission impossible". Its purchase was as a possible spare boiler/firebox for Leander.

Like others with a long memory, this was an ex Bristol Barrow Road engine seen many times passing my childhood home on heavy cross-country services between Cardiff/Bristol and Newcastle via Sheffield.

The "forgotten" Jubilee is 5593 "Kolhapur" owned by Clun Castle Ltd (I stand corrected if that is not the case now) and I wonder what plans there are for that engine? It does not really fit in with the Great Western image at Tyseley. Is 5593 still stored at Barrow Hill?

 

5593 moved to Tysley a year or so ago. As for a return to steam I'm not sure.

 

5593 might not be quite that forgotten, something will go into the workshop space 7029 would vacate and with 5080 out at Quainton Road and two working Castles already i'd be suprised if it's that.

 

The big question is really 45596

Since the BLS meltdown after being forced out of Dinting - which should never have needed to happen, and is entirely down to incompetence, and the move over the Pennines - with a largely Stockport and Peak based volunteer force the financial and volunteer resources of the society have dribbled away.

A team of about half a dozen performs miracles on 1054 and Nunlow, but 5596 sits forlorn and silent in Oxenhope

Not what George Davies, Alan Bidder and Geoff Walker strove for back in the mid sixties