NVR Wagon Group Updates

Oops! Fixed. Mind you, if you've ever ridden at the back of an unfitted freight when the guard isn't quite on it with the handbrake, fright might be the right word...

 

A good bank holiday turnout (possibly due to the team breakfast at Stibby diner before we started work?) - prep for the freight driving day and museum opening this coming Friday. There are still some spaces available on the afternoon driving session if anyone fancies it...

https://nvrwagons.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/29-05-23-bank-holiday-oil-up/

 

Thanks for the updates and hope your Friday event goes well.

 

Well, both the freight driving experience and the museum opening went fantastically well, but today it was back to restoring wagons...

https://nvrwagons.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/17-06-23-lets-start-a-roof/

Here are the before and after photos - we didn't have enough time to completely finish it (final fixing, trimming and painting to do), but we stripped and replaced a van roof today...

 

Another good session - with nearly the whole team on site at PNVR, including new member Chris, we split in to two teams with one finishing the roof we started in the last session, and the other clearing and prepping the van intended to be built up as a replica fruit van.

https://nvrwagons.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/01-07-23-continuing-on-high-with-a-little-bit-of-fruit/

 

Another day, another roof - although the weather stopped us doing the entire job in one day...and Tim did a bit of 'bee' keeping on the side

https://nvrwagons.wordpress.com/2023/07/16/16-07-23-even-more-roof-action/

 

Back in black - another roof painted, then we had a hole in our wagon, but that was soon filled with some brand spanking new planking - a good day even if we had a few showers interrupting the sunshine.

https://nvrwagons.wordpress.com/2023/07/29/29-07-23-working-on-the-side/

The Deltic freight driving day in October is sold out, but there are still places on the steam freight driving day with GWR Saint 2999 "Lady of Legend" in September: https://nvr.org.uk/product.php/440/gwr-saint-no-2999

 

It's a month until our next freight driving experience - this time with GWR Saint 2999 "Lady of Legend" on Friday 8th September

https://nvr.org.uk/product.php/440/gwr-saint-no-2999

 

After a bit of a hiatus due to holiday season, today saw a good turnout and work on the Mackerel, a conflat and some chalk boards...

https://nvrwagons.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/26-08-23-scrape-scrape-scrape/

 

A good team effort there Big Stu!

 

I've been laid up unfortunately, but a lot has happened in my absence, and I was gutted to miss the Saint Goods driving experience ;(

The more astute among you might spot that we now have our own domain, giving us new website and email addresses (although the old ones still work too)

https://www.nvrwagons.co.uk/

enquiries@nvrwagons.co.uk

https://nvrwagons.co.uk/2023/09/10/...jpa3dtJcfy24ShH0OfsmR1WDXRnclruBSnb1bez28mpWg

 

There are limited places available on our Railfreight Experience freight driving day with Class 37 37714 "Cardiff Canton" on Friday 6th October (replacement traction following the withdrawal of Deltic 55009).

For more info please email enquiries@nvrwagons.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/nvrwagons/...CzqvShCfYMzVJ1gNAuQmKkAkfUGDcBcZxhs3yBKYXmHxl

 

I had to supervise Josh driving his 5" loco at the RMR members day yesterday, but in our absence the rest of the wagon group cracked on with stuff...

https://nvrwagons.co.uk/2023/09/23/23-09-23-pal-con-mack-fruit/

 

Friday saw another successful freight driving day with a Class 37 substituting for the Deltic, and then on Sunday Josh and I were only there long enough to cut all the conflation floor planks, but the others made good progress on the PalVan.

https://nvrwagons.co.uk/2023/10/08/08-10-23-freight-course-and-a-door/



Finally, we are squeezing in one more event during this running season - an all day freight photo charter with Hunslet Austerity 3193 masquerading as Boston based LNER J94 68018 on Monday 30th October, £100 per person.

https://nvr.org.uk/product.php/467/boston-bucket-bash

 

Out of traffic Austerity 75006 will also be participating in the photo charter as Boston shed mate 68070, with a bit of smoke and mirrors

 

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This week has seen work on the PalVan and the transformation of 75006 in to 68070 in preparation for the photo charter on the 30th.

https://nvrwagons.co.uk/2023/10/15/15-10-23-charter-prep/

https://nvr.org.uk/product.php/467/boston-bucket-bash

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A long day yesterday, but we were determined to get the conflat in to traffic for the upcoming photo charter - places still available: https://nvr.org.uk/product.php/467/boston-bucket-bash

https://nvrwagons.co.uk/2023/10/22/22-10-23-charter-fast-approaching/

 

Thoroughly enjoyed yesterday's photographic charter, and we were exceedingly lucky with the weather too given East London was getting drenched when I left home.

The weathering on the Austerities really added something - if you didn't book, you missed something great. If you're new to charters these, I think, are a great way to start. Very relaxed and still provide excellent shots.

 

Great photos - sorry I wasn't there to enjoy the day too, but I was slumming it at the Savoy celebrating my 30th wedding anniversary!

There are a lot of fantastic photos about on social media too. General feeling is this is one of the best photo charters we've done on the NVR for a long time