Around and about the site
19th January 2011
Here are some views taken in the Colliery Engine Works earlier today…
Below: Two views of the flat-chaldron, complete with wheeled chassis and cross members.
Below: Stuart plus assistant reassembling Coffee Pot ready for its annual steam test next week. It now features new slide valves and a completed chimney damper – we are all interested to see if/how well this works!
Below: Slide valves everywhere! Dave Young has once again pulled out the stops and produced a terrific job in a short space of time. He is now back on the Lewin job, with a sandbox pattern emerging in his workshop.
Looking forward to seeing what the Flat Cauldron looks like when built.
Do you know the approx period these wagons
would have been in use ?( 1840s -1900s ?)
Hi Mac – chaldrons date from 1604 in the earliest guise, though the ones we are doing are 1860s onwards, being nearly twice the capacity of the originals. I’ll be doing a small book on them at some point, once the project is complete…
Best wishes,
Paul