Bury Standard 4 Group - Restoring 80097 and 46428
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24th February, 2025
Yesterday showed further progress on our preparation for our loco 80097 hydraulic test. We’ve been asked why we’re having another hydraulic? Well any boiler ticket to operate will be dated from the hydraulic test, not the steam test. Due to delay on provision of satisfactory…
14th February, 2025
Standard 4 Loco 80097 We have made progress on the provision of a satisfactory regulator valve. For those who are not sure, the valve controls steam admission into the superheater inlet header and subsequently to the cylinders. It is also the stop…
7th January, 2025
A Happy New Year to all from the Bury Standard 4 Group. On Saturday the 21st December our Grand Christmas Hamper Raffle Draw took place on platform 4 at Bolton St Station. The winning ticket was bought by Becky of Haslingden. She wins the…
5th December, 2024
Our Grand Autumn Raffle was drawn last Sunday at Bury Bolton St Station. The Santa Specials are in full swing and the draw took place on platform 3/4. The actors portraying the Christmas characters kindly drew the 3 winning tickets for us: 1st…
9th October, 2024
BS4G - where we are up to - September 2024. By Bob Taylor Publicity Officer Bury Standard 4 Group Apologies for the time it’s taken for this update. I have recently taken over publicity from Harry Taylor and have had some issues posting…
30th July, 2024
To Cap It All..... Now that we might be having a Summer , well at least for a few days (!), get ready for the Sun and treat yourself to one of our Bury Standard 4 Group baseball caps. Our Shop Coach has…
29th May, 2024
Spring Raffle The Bury Standard 4 Group Spring raffle was drawn on the 27th May, during the ELR's 1940's event. The results are : First prize of a footplate ride on our loco 80097 was won by Connor Loyd with ticket number…
23rd May, 2024
Just to keep you all up to date, work has proceeded on the re-tube of 80097 at Buckley Wells shed over the last few weeks. The finishing operations have been completed and the next step is the hydraulic leak test. If all is well we…
19th April, 2024
Shop Opening Information Due to an unfortunate combination of Shop Team sickness and holidays, our Shop will have to be closed after tomorrow Saturday 20th April. We seriously regret this closure but we only have a small Shop team and are constantly looking…
8th April, 2024
Cab: Our loco has a new cab. We are indebted to member and supporter, Terry Holtby. He supplied all the component sheet metal, laser cut to size from an original B.R. drawing. Over the last two years it has been assembled and initially bolted…
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