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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by BillyReopening, Dec 30, 2018.

  1. martin1656

    martin1656 Nat Pres stalwart Friend

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    Santa could at least have left you some coal,:D Sounds like it will be ready, when its ready, at least it's not been promised on several Railtours, whilst still in bits
     
  2. Ian Milne

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    Now three years on from when it was first estimated to be operational. Any update ? No mention of 70013 at all in the most recent edition of Main Line.
     
  3. LMarsh1987

    LMarsh1987 Part of the furniture Friend

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    I'm led to believe it's currently being worked on in Tyseley.
     
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    The frame was still at Loughborough a couple of months ago when I visited, boiler at Tyseley as mentioned above.
     
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    The boiler cladding has been shot blasted and primered in the last week or so, believe Tyseley have just put all of the small tubes into the boiler within the last fortnight and the shed fitters have been doing some work pre-Autumn steam gala on the cylinder chest non-return valves, cylinder main steam pipe studs and a few other smaller items.

    Information from the GCR Shed Facebook page who also said back in September that they hope to have the boiler back this year, fit a new ashpan and then drop into the frames.
     

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