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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 →

An extremely productive working session saw all four Wagon Group working members on site simultaneously – I believe this is a new record for us! Several smaller jobs were ticked off the list, with particular focus on the remaining items … Continue reading →

It’s been quite some time but an opportunity has finally arisen to start posting some of the backlog of updates that have accumulated over the last few months. A lot of progress has been made since the last update, with … Continue reading →

A combination of personal commitments and my study undergoing extensive refurbishment have made it difficult to maintain website updates recently, although I have acquired a backlog of material to be posted as soon as things settle down to normal – … Continue reading →

The above photo more-or-less covers everything in this report! Despite the short nature of this update however, a fair bit of work has been completed. The roof canvas has received its final coat of undercoat, and is now ready for … Continue reading →

The Wagon Group gallery page has been updated with a selection of images from the “Steam Freight” driving and shunting experience course, held in March 2014. To view the images please click here.  

This update may have been a long time coming; hopefully you will find it worth the wait as quite a lot of work has been undertaken with some major jobs ticked off the list:   The two ‘kits of parts’ … Continue reading →

Further to the previous update, all the woodwork that has been installed has now received pink undercoat, with the exception of the dummy side doors which still require completion (Photo courtesy of Philip Halstead).   The canvas has now been … Continue reading →

Few picture’s I’m afraid, but some good progress to report. The remaining timber required to complete the exterior of the van has now arrived, which enabled the framing for the end doors to be constructed at both ends of the … Continue reading →