Curator’s travels…
Below: Dunrobin’s motion, seen here are the crossheads, eccentrics and eccentric straps. All have been cleaned up and reveal the stampings 4085 or 85 (the works number). The team has done a great job in extracting and cleaning up these components, which will be inspected and stored prior to reassembly at a later date…
Below: On the train service for the day was Stanier 5MT mogul 42968 – the pouring rain and cold conditions making for some quite atmospheric scenes!
Below: Onwards, on Thursday, to a meeting at the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire. Here, recently received Blackpool Railcar No.630 is seen undergoing driver training prior to a launch into service later in the season.
Below: LREG (Light Rail Engineering Group, a sub group of CPT – Confederation of Passenger Transport) are given a tour of the workshops and shown the very nearly completed and quite stunning LUT 159.
Below: Of north east interest – MET 331, later sold to Sunderland where it became No.100 in the Wearside fleet. Seen here departing Town End for Glory Mine – one of the few moments that the torrential rail eased!
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