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No. 10 surely has to be the winner of this years HRA coach award?!

I caught a glimpse of 4115 in the background on the tv program, looking pretty immaculate. Is this one due in service soon too?

 

Was told the target date for 4115 yesterday, which just happens to be my wife's birthday. So if we make the target I know what wife & I will be doing for her birthday, but haven't told her yet

 

This would be wonderful given that IWR 46 (Now running as SR 6336) won the award in 1986.

 

What is the target date Derek?

 

And with 10 and 4115 nearing completion, is another grounded body going to take their space in the workshop?

 

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I think that in the short term SECR 4149 will be the priority, the underframe is already in the workshop, once the adjoining road is clear 4149's body will be brought in to accelerate that project. That may be followed by SECR 6375 for a similar process. I don't think that a final decision has been made about the next grounded body to be tackled.

 

Plenty to keep you busy with 4149 and 6375 for now then!

As the 4 wheeler train is now a decent length, perhaps attention might turn to the LCDR bogie coaches and more Oldburys? We shall see.

I’ll be planning a trip soon so I can see no. 10 in the flesh. Looking forward to it.

 

From Peter Jardine "The next grounded body will be IWR 21, this will go across the back of the shed as a long term volunteer job, a timber underframe kit is in stock."

 

Further information from Peter Jardine.

"The Isle of Wight Railway had running powers from Ryde to Newport, rarely exercised but Ashey Races was an occasion they did, the IWR referred to Ashey as "Ashey Racecourse" on these occasions which has led some to believe there was a racecourse station on the chalk pit spur, not true all passengers were disembarked at the normal station. Trains were parked in the chalk spur and the IWR rented compartments out as viewing boxes.
The Royal Train carrying Queen Victoria ran from Whippingham to Ventnor, it was comprised of all IWR stock with an IWCR loco to Ryde then IWR to Ventnor, there is a verbal story that IWR 37 carried the Queen, this is plausible as the vehicle was one of the newest vehicles on the Island at the time.
IWR 37 was an 1882 built composite very similar to No 10.
The railway has the body of IWR 38, an identical vehicle."

During WW1 many extra trains were run for shipyard workers ran to & from Cowes, IWR stock would have appeared in these, indeed the IWCR also took over and ran some of the 1914 IWR withdrawls during this period.
IWR stock did appear on odd occasions on the Central, there is a nice photo on the Freshwater line just before official opening of an excursion hauled by the contractors engine, a 14 coach train formed of mixed IWCR and IWR stock even includes the Bembridge line veranda ended 6 wheelers.

 

I noticed from the VCR database, that there are currently no IoWR brakes listed. Is there anything at all on the radar?

 

Their are no IWR brakes that I am aware of, so "new builds" Oldbury bodies are fairly simple constructions so why not?

 

Unless you are very lucky and a previously unknown one gets discovered. Not very likely though!

The experience gained with no.10 should make the restoration of no.21 a little easier. The first one is always the hardest.

Still a big job though, and I wish the volunteers all the best. This one might take a bit more than 6 months!

 

'Zacly! Much simpler than coping with the variances and vagarities of a 150 year old chicken coop. The L&B East group have worked miracles with their heritage carriages which are virtually new builds, and compared to the norm, these have looked remarkably straightforward

 

What were they then? Wagons?

I once heard a story about another O2 being hidden in Ventnor tunnel. If only that were true!

 

I must say I was a little envious of those straight sides on Wednesday, as what I'm at, at the moment doesn't have a straight edge or surface in sight!

Sawdust.

 

Ah, but think what it'll look like when it's finished!

 

Vans think this is one arriving back in 2016:-

https://www.facebook.com/6118206855...1820685590574/847516182021022/?type=3&theater

 

I wonder how much an arial LIDAR survey of the IoW would cost? There's almost got to still be some long forgotten kit under all that greenery ('Ooh look - we've got another 24ft x 8ft response and ..... wait ..... is that another tumbledown 15ft 4in x 6ft 5in shack behind that stable block?'). Extend it for the 10 miles or so round Lancing and Eastleigh and I'd put money on the ammount of known surviving pre-grouping rolling stock going up significantly.

I really hope the unique ex-LSW 4w 1comp guards carriage 4098 (IWC No.12) is one of those still out there, waiting to be rescued .... if just to see whether my inkling it was cobbled together from vehicles wrecked in a late 19th century prang at Clapham Jnc is correct. It matched NO description in Weddell's compendious tome on LSWR stock, but checking photos against drawings, looks a real 'bitsa'. It's high on my EM gauge 'to do' list as a real favourite.