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Thanks to the skills of the Centre's woodworking volunteers, take a nice comfortable step up for a close-up inspection of the fabulous little vintage 6-wheel carriage now on display at Nunckley Hill Museum – with the arrival of a new access stairway and platform.  You...

After a blitz on rust and scale, the frames of Barnum no.228 advanced in a sequence that allows for the floor timbers to be reinstalled and the next stage of assembly of newly machined and shaped teak boards to be fitted. Since these floor timbers were placed...

Brand new castings have been delivered for attachment to the Barnum no.228. GCR Rolling Stock Trust took the decision to recast four of the cast-iron buffer casings as those taken from the three Barnums would not make up an original four. A feature of the casting is...

Greetings Barnum followers..... This time we have real good and real bad news to impart..... Big strides continue with the fitting out of the Barnum body-shell – with the floor taken up in sequence over the bogies. The first bogie on cursory inspection from above...

Thanks especially to a master woodworking craftsman with 56 years experience, work on transforming the hulk of Barnum no.228 at the Ruddington Heritage Centre has taken a massive leap forward. Scores of workings of seasoned teak, recovered from a now demolished bonded...

Do we have vacancies? Do we have need of volunteers? We do. Old and new....! This is to help us restore our Barnum no.228 which is feeling a bit naked, awaiting recladding and a host of jobs of all types. If you are a woodworker or a DIY expert here is something...

When the 17-ton ML&SR was drawn out of the Engineering Shop at Ruddington on Saturday 16 September, GCRN Director Ron Whalley was in charge.  There was a classic "prototype for everything" moment as he used Steve Turner's Class 47 no. 47492 to effect a major yard...

This weekend: Sat 7th & Sun 8th October, we will be exhibiting at GCR's Autumn Gala.  Come and see to us at Quorn & Woodhouse station.  We would love to talk to you about the projects we are working on and the newly restored 6-wheeler No.946 which is now on...

Mountsorrel have taken delivery of our very special railway coach, MS&LR No. 946. Built by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1888, before becoming the Great Central Railway in 1899, it has taken 16 years to restore from derelict condition and...