Author Archives: NVR Wagon Group

This week we took delivery of another wagon to further the period objectives of the Wagon Group. A second tar tanker moved from Llangollen to the NVR this Tuesday to join the tanker that arrived a few years ago from … Continue reading →

Over the Easter weekend volunteers from the Wagon Group and TPO Group opened Overton Yard, not only to promote the Overton Goods, Coal and Travelling Post Office Project, but also for some Easter family fun. Volunteers welcomed enthusiasts and families … Continue reading →

Today we hosted the first driving course of the year with our resident Class 14 locomotive No 9529. With a fully booked experience, the course started at Overton for the morning session as 8 customers set off for Peterborough via … Continue reading →

Unfortunately our planned freight driving course on Friday 8th August was postponed, so it was decided that the time would be well spent getting back to work towards our Paul Foxwell Express Freight Project. With Van B780952 being not far … Continue reading →

This Saturday we hosted our latest freight driving course under the title of ‘The Peak of Summer’. It gave customers a rare opportunity to drive on a standard running day, which has the added excitement of trains passing at Orton … Continue reading →

Matt has been flying solo again and spent the day Saturday putting the finishing touches to the signwriting on Tim’s trailer. After a considerable amount of research, attention to detail, and plenty of man-hours, the Scarab Mechanical Horse and three … Continue reading →

Determined to finish the transformation of his road vehicles, Matt took a bit of time off work to repaint his mechanical horse into British Railways crimson and cream livery as part of the move towards 1962 as part of the … Continue reading →

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and there was plenty to do at Overton… Matt was in early to get a head start on painting Tim’s trailer. After lightly rubbing down the crimson, a second coat was applied … Continue reading →

Over the weekend Matt was flying solo to press on with the repaint of the road vehicles into British Railways livery. Saturday saw new canvas in the correct colour added to Tim’s trailer, then a bit of painting to the … Continue reading →

A bit more was achieved at Overton, with a repaint of the Banana Van being top of the list. Tim got on with some filling and then Mark and Paul sanded down and started painting. Meanwhile, Matt was busy with … Continue reading →

A slightly late update covering a week of wagon activity…. On Friday 16th May we hosted another extremely successful freight driving course with GWR Prairie No 4144. With the freight rake being at Overton a slight adjustment to the timetable … Continue reading →

Well what a day! Today, in partnership with the Travelling Post Office Group we hosted our first event at Overton as we work towards the Goods Yard Project. With only a few weeks to prepare for this event there was … Continue reading →