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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…