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 organised the transport this vehicle will…
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 during attempts to reinstall the buffer shanks. “Further back, the steel drag box…
Thanks enormously to the expertise and determined work of Richard Clarke, the vacuum and steam heat pipes have been reinstalled and coupled up on the Ruddington-based Barnum no.228. Removal of the two bogies to Nemesis Rail for heavy overhaul has provided one advantage most certainly not to be missed, as this gave about the only…
The Duke of Gloucester takes time to visit us at the multi award winning Heritage Centre where our meticulously restored Victorian carriage, No.946 resides. Here’s some more photos from the day where he learns of our work and the tragic Quintinshill disaster.. The Duke of Gloucester learns of the disaster at Quintinshill 1915 and the…
They have gone at last! After what seemed an age since first planned at the start of the year, two lifts and two journeys to Burton on Trent to Nemesis Rail have placed the two extracted Barnum bogies firmly in the queue for heavy overhaul, reports RST Trustee Mike Lang. The transporting by our friends…
The Court Circular for Thursday 24 July announced that HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, had visited the Nunckley Hill and Rothley Community Centre. That bald statement covered the massive event of the year at the end of the Mountsorrel branch for Director Steve Cramp and his organising team when the Duke, with the newly…
A massive collaborative effort, under the direction of Trustee Mike Lang, means RST has done it at last. Removing the two bogies – each weighing over 7 ½ tons – from beneath the jacked up body of Barnum no.228 at the Heritage Centre at Ruddington. This was finally completed on Saturday 22 June when they…
A somewhat unexpected event was the arrival on site at Ruddington of an inspecting delegation from the Science Museum and its subsidiary the National Railway Museum. The objective was to inspect the NRM Barnum, stabled at the Heritage Centre and to start the discussion regarding its future. With the methodical progress on the Trust’s first…
Glorious First of June. And a major step forward – step? Well very much more than just one….! Thanks to the excellently co-ordinated Yard work led by GCRN’s Mike Fairburn and Dave Morris, the first of the two bogies of Barnum no.228, under the singular leadership of Trustee Mike Lang and two RST stalwarts, Keith…
A tale of the unexpected…..! That specialist period sanitary ware and collector of fittings and etceteras from way back, with fascinating catalogues going back into the late 1800s when lavatories were being incorporated into passenger carriages (so that compulsory comfort stops were avoided – so speeding train journeys), our friend Simon Kirby produced for us…