Latest exciting photographs from the North Bay Engineering workshop showing axle boxes in process of being fitted to the “Blyth” frames. Upside down of course. The work looks typically first rate. Must get up to Darlington again soon.
It is the last day of the Summer Open Day season but work carries on at the Steamworks site. The MNR carriage has now been fully reglazed and a temporary roof applied to protect it from the elements over the
Some pictures of Scaldwell, our three foot gauge loco, showing some polished up components and the spectacular benefits of elbow grease. Comparison of after and before here. That is our Locomotive Engineer, Oliver Denham, working deep within.
The latest picture of the “Blyth” locomotive boiler with ready for its 58 tubes in the Darlington workshop of North Bay Railway Engineering Services. I confess I find it rather emotional watching this machine come back to life. Many thanks
To Darlington then. Peter Southgate and I visited the North Bay Engineering workshop in this interesting town yesterday to see the work well under way on the boiler of Blyth, the 2-4-0 Sharp Stewart replica which will operate down at
Work continues on the boiler for Blyth, the replica Sharp Stewart locomotive the Trust has commissioned. Thanks again to David Humphreys of North Bay Engineering for sending us these photos taken in the Darlington workshop. The SRT board has just
North Bay Engineering has just sent these through. Not quite in time for the February Newsletter which is at the printers now but anyway here they are. Watching this unique Sharp Stewart locomotive coming to life is going to be
Some pictures from the Wednesday work day. Above, various Gilets Jaunes (Ian, Toby and John H plus Grant) are sorting out the embankment earthworks by the BVLR track in the southwest corner of the Steamworks site. Not the warmest of
A very welcome return of the 3 foot gauge Manx coach, originally down at Duncans Yard in 2012 but now returned to Southwold where we can restore it, starting with the glass. That is the better side above but it
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