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Getting screwed up about gussets and rubbers….
We have the end plates, painted up with anti-corrosion protective, we have the measurements sorted ready for pre-drilling. The next step is to fill holes gouged out of the main steel frames before the first stage body lift is extended to ease the insertion of the new...
** Updated Newsletter **
Please see our revised Newsletter below:
** STOP PRESS ** NOVEMBER 2018 NEWSLETTER
Here's our newsletter folks! Hot off the press!
What a picture, what a photograph….
Taken from high above in the Malmaison Hotel on the Water Front at Leith, is our stunning “photograph of the year - 2018”, at that very moment when the assembled company, led by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, at the Eve of Armistice Service, saluted the fallen of the...
One smart Carriage – Returned to sender…..
Nunckley Hill – 12 November – Armistice 100+1 - This tour is done. This 6-wheel 130 year old hardly turned a wheel – yet managed to cross half of England and a quarter of Scotland and back, some 600 miles and more to take part in Eve of Armistice and Remembrance...
Sheffield & Leith Armistice Centenary Events – 10 & 11 November
Here's a selection of photos from the truly amazing Sheffield & Leith Armistice Centenary Events with Quintinshill Memorial Carriage No.946 on display for the special Commemoration Service. Our deepest thanks to all attendees and those that made this event...
On the Eve of the Armistice Centenary….
Saturday 10 November 2018 - On the eve of the Centenary of the Armistice of the Great War 1918 - What a highly charged day. Leith families turned out in hundreds to experience for themselves the type of carriage in which Grandfathers, great Uncles and friends had died...
* WE ARE HEADING TO SCOTLAND *
If you have friends in Scotland and indeed around the City of Edinburgh and you want something very unusual, have a look carefully at this event organised by The Leith Trust for Friday and Saturday next week... You can see and admire the Quintinshill Memorial Carriage...
***Coming to join the Barnum Update on the 27th..?***
By popular demand - we hope! - next Saturday morning 27 October at the Ruddington Heritage Centre, we are having an update on the rebuild of the Barnum no.228, where we are and what's next. We suggest that 10.00 hours to 12 noon would be ideal - on a walk-in when you...
IMPORTANT PRESS INFORMATION
Date: 17 October 2018 Contact: Richard Tilden Smith - gcrrollingstocktrust@live.co.uk Kate Tilley – 07814 803184 Victorian Rail “Gem” Arrives in for Edinburgh for the Armistice Ceremony MEDIA CALL – MEDIA CALL: Friday 9thNovember from 9am to 11am at the...