In The Works

Current Projects

B780952 Vanfit; Replace roof, complete north side restoration and return to running order.

B777633 Vanfit; Replace roof, complete north side restoration and return to running order.

B775702 Vanfit/B875739 Fruit Van; Conversion from Vanfit Diagram 1/213 to Fruit Van Diagram 1/233 and return to running order.

B775176 Vanfit; Restoration to running order.

Short Term

P143288 and M237950; full repaint from current BR Private owner condition to pre BR Private owner condition

Medium Term

The Paul Foxwell Express Freight Fund; Restoration of a Block Train of 4 wheeled vacuum fitted vehicles mostly Box vans with Conflats loaded with Containers.

Long Term

British Railways Overton
Goods, Coal and TPO Depot
(The Overton Project)

The NVR board has appointed Tim Hobman as project manager with their full support to move the scheme forward. The initial stages of work have started to see site tidying and stock movements to relocate items that don’t fit within the chosen early BR Eastern Region period. A full costed and phased business plan is in development for the whole site.

The outline plans for the site show all of the usual goods yard facilities, with creation of a Restoration shed, LNWR style goods shed, museum building, second platform and finally signalling. The goods shed is planned to be a multi-use space, primarily as a museum display but also an undercover events space. Similarly the museum space has been considered as a multi-use space to tell the story of the TPOs, but also encourage educational opportunities with visiting groups and partnership working with the NVR museum group.

It is also hoped that the development and improvement of the rest of the site will encourage more volunteers and involvement from existing departments to staff the station and yard, making Overton a vibrant and attractive destination for visitors to the NVR.

The project will naturally require significant external funding, whilst not detracting from other NVR objectives and as already stated a full business plan is currently in progress. Whilst still in the planning phase, progress has been made during 2025 to tidy the site and relocate some current projects to the yard to continue the good work of the wagon and TPO groups.

It is certainly an exciting prospect and one to watch as things develop!