As has become traditional for this blog, I have compiled a review of 2025’s activities (well, some of them!) and outlined these as a month-by-month…
I’ve alluded to this project in earlier posts, but can now reveal this new project that we will be undertaking largely in our own workshops. …
It has been quite some time since Part 4 of this story, and there has been something of a hiatus in programme for the restored…
Just one update this month, largely as there hasn’t been much time to write up the post, not because there isn’t plenty to report! November…
Looking back at the folder for ‘October blog images’ I was surprised to see just how many photos there were in it! It has certainly…
I thought that an update on progress with the restoration of 4085 Dunrobin was timely, with the locomotive having had its hydraulic boiler test this…
October is proving to be as busy as every other month has been, with lots of news from the team as activity in various areas…
The trams have seen a great deal of attention this month, with 114’s paintwork being brought closer to completion, Gateshead 10’s truck assembly continuing, Blackpool…
For the first part of the month, here is a fleet/site round-up, to record progress on numerous vehicles. Readers will have noted the previous post…
Dunrobin’s new dome components arrived recently at Bridgnorth, enabling the boiler reconstruction to be completed. The next steps in the process (after water testing for…
After the triumph of seeing the SHEW car in operation, for the first in generations, a number of tasks have been attended to in order…
This month has passed by in something of a blur, with lots happening, and therefore quite a bit to report. The separate post regarding the…
In the programme of vehicle conservation and restoration, a number of key dates have been identified as being of significance to certain vehicles within the…
We round off July’s diary updates with more progress on Gateshead 10 and an exciting development on the Daimler CC lorry. Gateshead 10 has received…
There is a lot to report already this month, so we’ll split the output into two-parts, once again. In this post we catch up with…
There is just the one post this month – there was plenty to report in May, and June has been a process of putting the…
As readers will know, Dunrobin’s restoration is being undertaken at the Severn Valley Railway’s engineering works at Bridgnorth, where exciting progress is being made towards…
May is going to be another busy month! The notable occurrences are the re-commencement of operation at Rowley Station (24th May), and the Festival of…
This second instalment of April’s Workshop Diary contains some new threads, covering development work associated with Oporto 196, further signage developments and progress reports on…
It is surprising (or maybe not!) just how quickly we get to Easter each year – traditionally the focal point for completing the winter maintenance…
For the final post of the three Workshop Diaries this month, we catch up on a few of the jobs not covered in detail elsewhere… …
We continue our look at the restoration/maintenance activity around the transport collections in this second part of two (maybe even three!) posts for March 2025… …
This month there is so much content available that we’ll split the workshop diary into two posts – this being the first of those, and…
We are approaching the end of the month of February, and already there seems to be a lot that has taken place this year! When…
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