Barnum moves on again…..

After a short intermission while the sides of the carriage were reconnected, all 16 panels of profiled teak board have now been fixed, despite the springing of the body sides, now corrected.  This reveals just how big the Barnum’s interior saloons are compared...

Barnums….So we really need internal ventilation ?

There has been some heavy thinking going on about what we should provide for the travelling public when each of the Barnums is hopefully returned to traffic – in quite a number of years yet. Do we need to apply piped services in the planning now? And how much...

Sprung body-side delays teak cladding work on Barnum

Placing the teak boarding on the interior walls of the second of the two saloons of Barnum no.228 came to an unexpected halt recently when it was discovered that screws retaining two of the main forged steel brackets retaining the side of the carriage to the main...

Very sad loss of Trustee Richard Potter

We are most awfully sorry to tell you that Richard Potter, one of our senior Trustees in GCR Rolling Stock Trust is no longer with us. After an increasingly aggravating battle with Parkinson’s disease he lost that fight on Tuesday last, 31 July, at home in...