25th March 2019 - Great Central Railway Rolling Stock Trust

High winds strip carriages………AGM demands action….

Mar 24, 2020

Passed unanimously by the smaller than usual numbers at the Rolling Stock Trust' s AGM, held thanks to NSMEE in the comfortable Club Room on site at Ruddington, was the proposal to press ahead with planning and funding of storage facilities at the Centre. Reminded by...

That Barnum bogie corrosion…

Mar 20, 2020

One of the bogies of Barnum no.228 is in much more corroded state than the other, reports Mike Lang, RST Trustee and Project Manager. That has been the assessment made at the repair shop of Nemesis Rail at Burton on Trent where shortage of resources has resulted in...

Quintinshill disaster repeat on TV….

Mar 17, 2020

On the two evenings ahead of the Anniversary of the 1915 Quintinshill catastrophe on 22 May, Neil Oliver again presents his investigation into this Britain's worst ever rail disaster. BBC 2 is showing in Scotland on Wednesday 20th and Channel 4 on Thursday 21st, both...

RST – Buffing capability restored

Jan 31, 2020

“When you start dismantling an old carriage – especially as old as these Barnums - you never know quite what you will find!” Says Mike Lang, Project leader of the Barnum no.228 rebuild at Ruddington. Classic examples are the reveal of the state of the bogies once...

RST – NRM Barnum packaged for Black Friday…

Nov 28, 2019

The 37-tonne Barnum carriage, no.666, due to return to NRM hands this week, is now wrapped up and astride the car park at The Heritage Centre at Ruddington where it has been stabled since it arrived in 2009 from Quorn on the Great Central Railway. Once the NRM has...

Frame damage slows Barnum rebuild …….

Oct 15, 2019

Now with the underside fully accessible the extent of the damage to the buffer support and drag box, without any doubt caused by excessively heavy shunting, has been discovered to be much greater than previously realised. The headstock is damaged, causing misalignment...