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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 →

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.