Seb Marshall and his team at Historic Vehicle Restoration are making remarkable progress on the restoration and adaptation of our ex Crosville Leyland Cub, No.716….
Last weekend saw the culmination of years of work and preparation by members of the Moseley Railway Trust, with the successful and impressive ‘Tracks to…
I’ve added this post to the blog as it reveals that we don’t always manage to achieve what we set out too! Also, I’ve had…
I’ve posted elsewhere about the Electric 50 event at Crich, but thought that 114’s visit warranted its own post! This also enables it to appear…
This last weekend the National Tramway Museum celebrated 50 years of electric tramcar operation at Crich with a superb event over the two days, including…
We have a narrow gauge theme to this post… Below: Andy Martin visited us during the Power from the Past event, taking some stunning wet…
With a few days lieu time looming, here is this week’s report. Crich will be Saturday’s destination, with the Tracks to the Trenches event at…
Well, the event is now behind us but the Agricultural Festival has much more to give, and the events continue through the rest of the…
Whilst the Power from the Past event was at the forefront of our minds over the weekend, other work has progressed too. Notable amongst this…
A short report for this post – just a glimpse of some of the exhibits you can see as part of the Power from the…
In anticipation of the start of Power from the Past on Thursday, Matt and I have been preparing the various railways for the event. Today…
We have a mixture of news this week, looking outside at some contract work, preparations for next week’s Power from the Past and a day…
A bit of a mix this week (looking back at last week), starting with a look at the original Samson’s haunts at Cornish Hush… Samson…
A bit of a mixed bag of news this week, starting with a trip out… Below: On Wednesday a rare escape was made, to Scarborough…
Due to tedious IT problems, the previous bulletin was rather shorter than it was suppose to be – as I have to send images to…
Historic Vehicle Restoration are well into the dismantling of the Cub, as shown in this sequence of events, with photos kindly supplied by Seb Marshall….
Well, its been a busy and slightly unusual week. Tuesday morning saw the early starters arrive to find that vandals had paid us a visit…
A shorter post for last week as there has been a detailed look at the Leyland Cub restoration in a separate post, and other works,…
Julian is currently working through a large collection of prints that were donated some years ago. Such is the volume of photographic material that we…
Leyland Cub No.716 Here is the first in what will no doubt be a regular series featuring the restoration of Leyland Cub 716, which is…
Its that time again – the annual narrow gauge steam festival at Threlkeld Quarry Museum near Keswick, being held from Friday to Sunday July 25…
If sweat is any indication of hard work, we have had a very hard week this week! I’ve reported elsewhere on No.18’s trials, so here…
No.18 was in steam again today to enable Matt to test some modifications to the injector pipework to increase the amount of steam reaching the…
Is there such a thing as a quiet week?! Another busy one with lots of activity, a sample of which is presented here, along with…
In this ‘Rolling Restorations’ I will review various roller related activities, starting with the restoration of Beamish’s D4 roller, R025. R025 Below: R025 came to…
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