Bury Standard 4 Group - Restoring 80097 and 46428
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8th February, 2016
The Group has continued with the refurbishment of the High Fit wagon which needs both drag boxes and buffer beamsreplacing. Allan, Jimmy and Connor continued with the welding on of the new end for the wagon. Richard made new dummy rivet bolts for the…
8th February, 2016
January saw two busy weekends with the ELR running packed trains pulled by the Flying Scotsman loco. We had a big publicity drive with an extra notice board on platform 3 and our BS4G flyers and info packs distributed in all the trains that…
8th January, 2016
Work has continued over the Christmas and New Year period with some work now being done on the refurbishing of a High Fit wagon. Magic Andy visited for more main steel steam pipe bending, which is now finished and the pipes stored away. He also…
18th December, 2015
Latest 80097 Boiler News Our CME has just made a visit to the boiler company, Adam Dalgleish, to deliver the regulator rod so that they can accurately position the J pipe. They have now started to offer up the boiler sections to…
1st December, 2015
Alan, Jeff and Dan have fitted a tool board to the back of the workbench and Alan has mounted the tool discs to it and rearranged the bench layout. Dave and Jimmy have collected the delivered 5 metre lengths of steel main steam…
4th November, 2015
On the weekend of the 17th and 18th October the East Lancs Railway held its Autumn Steam Gala. We were able to show the progress on 80097 by towing her onto the bay platform 1 for everyone to see. The loco, with our new…
16th October, 2015
The last few weeks have seen steady progress on both locos. 80097 report Allan and Nigel have worked on the fireman’s seat, which is now all welded and ready to be painted. A piece of elm will then be needed to…
1st September, 2015
Another really progressive period on the loco. Allan has stripped down and overhauled the blowdown valve, which Nigel then painted. Sharon made a pattern of the valve flange, to be sent to Dalgleish and then made the gasket for it . Nigel,…
14th August, 2015
Richard has been working on parts for the superheater header. He has made a tool for the seats, 21 off 1 inch studs and the 1 ¼ inch studs. He started making the nuts for these studs and these have now been finished off by…
21st July, 2015
A very progressive few weeks of work has just passed. Results are: Jim, Mark, Colin and Hughie have been joined by Bob and they have continued painting the loco, which now has a first coat of black on both sides. Other primed metal…
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