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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...
PRESS INFORMATION FROM GCR ROLLING STOCK TRUST
Date: 10 October 2018 Contact: Kate Tilley 07814 803184 or Richard Tilden-Smith: gcrrollingstocktrust@live.co.uk Victorian “Gem of a Carriage” Booked for Sheffield'sArmistice Ceremony at Victoria Station Coming to the heart of the City of Sheffield to add focus to...
New Faces aid Barnum rebuild It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mike Lang (Pictured centre, black tie), a leading light in Railway Vehicle Preservation (RVP to many), together with Nick Lang and Mark Robinson into the restoration team at Ruddington, to share...
On board the Barnum, come Saturday 15 September…..
Now here is that double opportunity for you. We are opening the Barnum no.228 for your inspection to coincide with the annual reveal of progress on new build locomotive Parker 4-4-0 Class 2 no.567 – on Saturday 15 September from 10.00hours until midday at least.......
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 with...