GWR 2800 Class No. 2807

Mon 22nd I had to visit the BIG railway to take my son, Tim, to Kingham to catch the train home (Baldock, Herts).  Train due at 12.53, we ar...

Tuesday 9th 2807 back in service.  Rails buckled in the heat, close to Hailes Abbey.  Luckily crew spotted it & took it steady.  Ops n...

Looks like the NRM at York is safe - for the moment anyway. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/indepth/savethenrm/ Steve

Mon 1 July Roy Gamlin came down wearing his FLA cap, and sorted through bric-a-brac.  Mostly this was pricing up books, but also included t...

Weds John M & John T were needling & brushing rail chairs as I arrived. I got on with painting the lettering on those that I had p...

Tues I re-stocked the F&W (Toddington) and Coffee Pot (Winchcombe).  As I arrived, there were two black boot scrapers left in the F&...

On Thursday, I'd got roped in to lighting a warming fire so that Carpo could do a steam test on Friday, because they wanted 2807 in serv...

By the time I arrived on Saturday (10 o'clock) Geof, Gil & David had already got the tender brake shoes off.  I offered to help, but...