New underframe for historic carriage

From the Downpatrick & County Down Railway Facebook page:

This #WorkshopWednesday is slightly different as we're heading up to the workshops in Queen's Island in Belfast, rather than our own sheds in Downpatrick.
In Harland & Wolff, to help restore one of our unique Victorian railway carriages.
Built in 1862, Ulster Railway carriage No 33 - originally a luxurious private family saloon for the cream of Belfast's elite - is the sole survivor from Northern Ireland’s first railway company, and is only one of a handful of Irish railway carriages to survive from the dawn of the railway era into modern times. As such, the carriage is actually closer in age to Stephenson’s Rocket than it is to most other railway vehicles in Northern Ireland’s railway museums.
The Ulster Railway was formed in 1836 and operated out of Great Victoria Street to Portadown and Armagh, later becoming the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). The carriage was retired from railway service in 1920 and the body was removed from its wheels and used as a railway office, and later a farm shed, until it was saved by the DCDR in 1987.
The project to help recreate this unique railway carriage will serve as a pivotal training opportunity for Harland & Wolff apprentices, immersing them in heritage skills essential to fabrication and engineering, but also revives a long connection between the shipbuilder and Northern Ireland’s railways.
In the 1930s Harland and Wolff extended their manufacturing expertise beyond shipbuilding to produce diesel locomotives as well as railway wagons - one of which will be used to donate parts to the shipyard’s first railway vehicle to be built by them in Northern Ireland since the Second World War.
In addition to severe wood rot and structural problems, a major barrier to restoration was the prior removal of the chassis - or underframe - in the 1920s. However, a century later, the recreation of this underframe now serves as a major educational tool, marking a major milestone in the heritage railway sector in Northern Ireland.
The development of the design has followed best practice from fellow heritage railways in England, with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway providing specialist advice on the project as well.
This was helped by students from Queen's University Belfast's School of Mechanical Engineering undertaking research and design work into the frame, designing the suspension and carrying out stress calculations as well as braking systems, with Harland and Wolff now coming on board to move to the fabrication stage, with the required steel being very kindly provided by long-time DCDR supporter Walter Watson Ltd Steel Stockholders in Castlewellan.
This news has been kept under wraps since May, when DCDR chairman Robert Gardiner and Infrastructure Manager David Crone were invited to meet with senior H&W officials in their Belfast offices to discuss the project.
The sheer enthusiasm the apprentice team have for the project has been a delight to see, and incredibly humbling. We're very much looking forward to seeing the project progress to completion – we’ve even got a 3D printed H&W maker’s plate from Titan Forge 3D ready to put on the underframe!
Once finished, the underframe will be moved into our own workshop in Downpatrick, where it will be outfitted with recovered donor parts and wheels, before the big day when UR 33 will be transplanted onto its new, permanent, home.