GWR 2800 Class No. 2807

Colin provides an update on siphon van restoration: " Sat 15 - at the Siphon: We went down to the coach to inspect what the weather h...

Saturday 8th - update Colin sent photos of the siphon - you can see the slats and the general state of repair before Fred's restoratio...

Monday 3rd Following complaints about the state of our files and the wearing out of all of our metal saw blades, I bought some more NEW ite...

Wednesday 29 Jan Gil, Bruce Dixie & myself today.  The latter being devoted to boot scrapering, while the rest attended the tender. G...

Wednesday 22nd Fred and Ray were working on the Siphon van restoration at Winchcombe; Bruce and I worked on the tender at Todders. Bruce ...

Monday 13th Apparently, the tractors and trailers were all in the wrong places on Monday morning, and it took Alleleys ages to shunt them i...

Here are a few photos taken on Saturday 11th. 2807 being shunted towards the loading / unloading road. Standing on the loading /...

Sun 5th I popped down for 5 mins, and there a poor lonely soul called Paul, from Brierley Hill, who had come to work in the steam loco dept...