We are pleased to announce that the major components for the assembly of the front end of 3840 are now ready to be fitted to the main frames. The cylinders, extension frames and racking plate angles are all complete and…
We now have an online shop on our web site selling a range of merchandise and second hand books. The books cover a variety of topics, not just railway related, and most of the books are in nearly new condition…
As we do not have an existing bogie to work with, we are having to create one from scratch and have been developing a design based on the original GWR drawings. There were some issues with the original bogies when…
The tyre and axle material for the driving wheels and pony wheels have been ordered from South Africa and should be arriving in the UK imminently. The original plans for the assembly of the driving wheels and tyres have had…
With the cylinders getting near to completion and the other components that form the front end of the locomotive being accumulated at CMS, we have asked CMS to quote for the production of all the ancillary parts that need to…
Both the cylinder and piston bores have been machined and the pilot holes to connect the cylinders to the smokebox to the cylinders have been drilled. The final drilling of the cylinder bolting faces and the faces that connect to…
With the machining of the cylinders, racking plate angles, extension frames and the bogie pivot pin we have all the major parts required to assemble the front end. The buffer beam and its related angles and frames are already in…
The cylinders have been going through several machining passes at CMS in November and December. We finished the year with most of the machining done and CMS are now onto the machining of the cylinder bores and piston valve bores…
Literally, the cab steps are being assembled at TLW, and the brackets have been fixed to the rear of the main frames where the steps will be eventually be fitted. There are a lot of things to be assembled in…
The Racking Plate Angles have been machined from solid at CMS, the originals would have been forged. Here they are shown after rough machining. The metal has been left to stress relieve naturally in this condition before they are finally…