The Railway Magazine – August 2019

82 •TheRailway Magazine•August2019

Brecon Mountain passenger

services for SantaTeresa

BRECONMountainRailway’s

(BMR) Baldwin 2-6-2 No.1Santa

Teresa(15515/1897) hauled its

first passenger serviceonJune

18.

It wasinitially built as

a2ft-gauge 2-6-0forthe

CompanhiaMogiana de Estrada

de Ferrosystem(acoffee

plantation) in Brazil,whereitr an

as No.26, butwaslatersoldto

Usina SantaTeresa SugarMill and

re-gaugedto 2ft6in. This system

closedby 1976.

No.1was importedtoBritain

in 1990 and boughtbyBMR in

2002.

Theboiler,cab andtenderwere

beyondrepair and scrapped,

with the locohaving been

completelyrebuiltat BMR’s Pant

workshops,retaining the original

main frame,cylinders,valvegear

and some of the running gear.

It wasrever tedto2ft gauge

while beingconverted to a2-6-2.

Newcomponents encompass

the boiler,smokebox, cab,

wheels,axles,rear subframe,rear

truck,front pilot(cow catcher)

and tender.

Newlyrestored Baldwin 2-6-2

No.1SantaTeresaruns through

Pontsticill station along the

shoreofTaf Fechanreservoir on

its waytoTorpantau on July 3.

CLIFF THOMAS

■THELeadhills &

WanlockheadRailway

postponed itslate-July Steam

Weekend because of delayed

completion of theoverhaul

of GrahamMorris’Kerr,Stuart

0-4-0ST‘Wren’PeterPan.

Transportissues ruled out

booking an alternativeloco.

Provisionalreviseddatesfor

PeterPan’svisit areAugust

31-September1.

■CONSTRUCTION of a

newcar parkat the Vale of

RheidolRailway’s Devil’s

Bridge terminusstartedin

July.Financial assistancefor

the projectisb eingreceived

from theWelsh Government

Rural Communities –Rural

DevelopmentProgramme

2014-2020.Thenew car and

coach park will allowthe

stationandcafesurroundings

to becomeafullypedestrian

area.

■WORKcontinueson

developmentofapassenger-

carrying lineat the Lancashire

MiningMuseum (former Astley

GreenColliery).Thetrackbed of

anew sectionofl ine has been

levelled,and newpointsfora

run-roundloop atthefar end

werelaid in early June.Two

locos from thecollection at the

siteare at Stat fold Engineering

beingfittedwithairbrakes to

enable passenger operation.

■THETalyllynRailwayoffered

free traveltoA bergynolwyn

residents wishingto get to

Tywynbetween June 26-28

whileroadworks ontheB440 5

between Abergynolwyn

and Bryncrug meantlocal

bus services between

Abergynolwyn andTywyn

werecurtailed.

■HAMPTON &Kempton

Waterworks Railway’snewly

boughtcarriage(RMMarch)

wasdelivered on June 6.It

requireswork be fore it can

enterservic e, hopefullyin

2020.

■LEIGHTON Buzzard Railway’s

June 16BedfordshireWhisky

Festival drew morethan500

visi tors andraised £1,500

towards fundingthe line’s

extension to MundaysHill.

■THE HeatherslawLight

Railway wasunable to run

between June14-15 after

heavyrain causedthe nearby

RiverTill to floodasectio nof

the 15in-gauge line.Unlike

the extensiveflooding that

hitthe line inSeptember

2008, thestation andyard

wereunaffected, and when

the water receded thetrack

wasfoundto be undamaged,

allo wing servicesto re sumeon

June 16.

SIDELINES

ASPECIAL trainforRavenglass&EskdaleRailway staff andvolunteers passes MuncasterMill on the

evening of June 1.This feat ured all fiveofthe line’s main steam locomotives:RiverMite, RiverEsk,

WhillanBeck, NorthernRockandRiverIrt.It wasthe first timeaquintuple-headed train had run on the

15in-gauge‘La’al Ratty’.SAM DIXON

Gowrie new-buildgathers pace in Derbyshire

THE team aimingto construct

anear-replica of 2ft-gauge

Hunslet 0-6-4T‘Single-

Fairlie’Gowrie(RMMarch),

has launchedafundraising

campaign.

Five trustees have been

appointedtothe group–

nowconstituted asGowrie

LocomotiveTrust –abank

accountopened, with the

projectbeing registered as

aCharitableIncorporated

Organisation, which will enable

the recovery of GiftAid.

Contributions of £500

(payable inasingleamount,

twopayments of £250 payable

12 months apartormonthly

payments of £25over 24

months) will entitle the donor

to receipt of anexclusivefine

artprintofGowrieandaticket

forthe loco’sfirst servicetrain or

launch event.

Alist of individual

componentsavailable for

sponsorship is being produced.

AFriends ofGowrie

LocomotiveTrust has also

been set up.Costing £20

ayear,Friends willreceive

quarterly newsletters,

invitationsto workshop open

days,and priorityoptions on

all componentsavailablefor

sponsorship.

ChequesforFriends

membership and donations

can be sentto6ShipleyRise,

Carlton, Nottingham NG4 1BN.

Severalsmall components

have been fabricatedinthe

team’s NorthDerbyshire

workshop and trustee David

Smith is creatinga3Dcomputer-

aided designmodel from

originalworksdrawings.

Second ex-FRcarriagetoApedaleValley

FORMER FfestiniogRailway

(FR) steel-bodied carriage

No.120 wasdeliveredto

ApedaleValley LightRailway

on June 10.

It joinsex-FR No.117, which

wasboughtbyMoseley

Railway Trust (MRT)in2 016

afterbecoming surplus as

FR constructednew vehicles

whichtook the old numbers.

Similarex-FRcarriages

(Nos.118 and 119)were

boughtbyGoldenValley

LightRailway,wherethey

arenow in serviceon

replacementbogies.

Thetransportthatdelivered

the carriagereturnedto

NorthWales with MRT’s Kerr,

Stuart0-6-0T+WT‘Joff re’

3014/1916, which visited Bala

LakeRailway’s June 16-17

gala.

GreenGoddess

back on tr acks

DAVEY, Paxman 4-6-2No. 1

Green Goddessreturned

to serviceatthe Romney,

Hythe &Dymchurch

Railway (RHDR) on June 9.

It had been out of traffic

sincecolliding withafarm

trac toronanoccupation

crossing onSeptember

10, 2016.

Thebacklog of RHDR

work causedby repairing

the damagetoGreen

Goddesswill be alleviated

by the dispatchofKrupp

4-6-2 No.11BlackPrinceto

JohnFowlerEngineering

in Cumbriaforoverhaul

on June 29.This enables

RHDRto nowbegin an

in-houseoverhaul ofYEC

4-6-2 No.10DoctorSyn.

RH&DRailway

Association has

committed £60,000 of

reservestosupportthe

contract overhaul ofBlack

Prince,roughly half the

anticipatedcost,and

launched an incentivised

appealtowardscovering

thesecosts.

Greensandtrust

wins awardfor

Simplexproject

THETransportTrust’s Alan Moore

Award2018 has been madeto

GreensandRailway MuseumTrust

(GRMT)forits restor ation of 40hp

Armoured SimplexLR2182.

Theaward waspresentedto

GRMTchairman CliffThomasby

HRH Prince Michael of Kentat

Brooklands Museum,Weybridge

on June 17.

TransportTrust awards are

madeto arange of transport

projects.Restor ation of LR2182

wasthe onlyrailway project

honouredat this year’s ceremony.

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