Author Archives: NVR Wagon Group

Thanks to some solo working from Tim and Philip on different days, ‘Operation Tidy Up’ rapidly progresses towards completion of the first of the vans – BR ‘Vanfit’ B777654. Photos courtesy of Tim Hobman and Philip Halstead.   Above: The … Continue reading →

It’s back! After the successful “Steam Freight” driving and shunting experience course with BR Standard ‘5MT’ 4-6-0 last year, the Wagon Group have been asked to arrange a similar event with a very special visitor – Gresley ‘N2’ 0-6-2T locomotive … Continue reading →

A couple of progress update photos from Philip to add to the report below, as he has topcoated the previously cleaned and primed eastern end.  

We are still awaiting an opportunity to shunt the externally-completed CCT 37071 out of the shed and bring in our next restoration projects. In the meantime, we are continuing with Operation ‘Tidy Up’, this being the cosmetic improvement of some … Continue reading →

With the completion of our exterior works to ex-LMS “Octopussy” CCT No.37071, we have been free to be able to begin new wagon projects. We await a shunt to remove the CCT from our workspace in the shed and bring … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to report that our long and thorough project to rebuild and restore LMS CCT No.37071 back to its James Bond “Octopussy” filming appearance is now complete! The externally finished vehicle has now been handed over to … Continue reading →

Our new Facebook page has now gone live, which we hope will be a way to communicate more instantly with our friends/supporters/interested bystanders! Please follow us at the link below or in the sidebar (right, below the calendar): https://www.facebook.com/nvrwagongroup

Some progress has been made with the small final jobs as we push the James Bond “Octopussy” wagon towards completion. Unfortunately by their nature some of these items are not particularly photogenic or interesting in themselves but have been included … Continue reading →

The Wagon Group is indebted to Roger Gurney, who has sent us some beautiful recent images of our goods train in action. A selection can be found on our ‘Gallery’ pages.

The February Steam Gala seemed to go well, I understand Saturday was the busier of the two days partly due to a poor weather forecast for Sunday (and indeed it turned out to be bitterly cold, and later in the … Continue reading →

Following on from the previous update below, and as hoped, we managed to get an opportunity to repaint the second MoD wagon, No.4730, in time for the February steam gala and associated photo charter next weekend. Both wagons have also … Continue reading →

For a long time now our project updates have been focused solely on our active project to cosmetically restore LMS CCT 37071 to its appearance in the railway sequences of the 1983 James Bond movie “Octopussy”. Work on this project … Continue reading →