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Volunteer liaison update Ruston and Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic No. 525947 “Rusty” Work on dismantling the engine has continued. It is believed that the problem is with one of the cylinder heads and this will hopefully be removed over the weekend for confirmation. Ruston and Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel mechanical No. 313394 “Jammo” Is being prepared for some attention and maintenance work to its engine and mechanics North British 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic No. 27414 “Tom” Is fully operational, and is seeing use on diesel service trains Class 142 Pacer No. 142058. Was in service on Sunday 21 May. BR Class 37 diesel No. 37263 Was at the SVR spring diesel gala. By all accounts she performed very well over the 4 days, and was very popular with the crews and visitors. There is some great footage of her in action on social media and youtube. Well done to her owners. Permanent Way (P-Way) Ongoing further line side clearance and burning has taken place south of Horsehay and Dawley station. Thank you to AJ for the additional information used in this update We currently have an appeal to buy a new boiler for our narrow gauge steam tram. You can help us greatly by donating at https://gofund.me/093e7130 As a thank you, we are offering rewards for certain levels of donations, although every single one is gratefully received and will help put our tram back into operation. Please also consider supporting Telford Steam Railway through the Telford and Wrekin Community Lottery, which is open to anyone in the UK over 16 years old. This weekly draw gives you the opportunity to win prizes up to £25,000. Tickets cost £1 per week and 50p from each ticket sale goes directly to the railway. Sign up at https://www.twincl.co.uk/support/telford-steam-railway Our 2023 special events are now on our website: www.telfordsteamrailway.co.uk/events The railway is not open to the public on Saturday 27th May. Our next event is the Classic Transport day on Sunday 28th May. We hope to have classic cars, land rovers, E-type Jaguar, a sentinel diesel wagon, traction engine and miniature traction engine on show as well as “Rocket” hauling the trains. Special fares will be in operation - £10 Adults, £8 Children, £40 Family ticket (2 adults and 3 children). No concessions. The railway is then open on Bank Holiday Monday 29th May. Peckett and Sons steam engine No 1722 “Rocket” will be hauling our trains (No classic vehicles will be on display) First departure from Spring Village station (TF4 2NF - free car park) is at 11am with further departures at 12pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm. Tickets for Mondays trains £8 Adult, £5 children/concessions, £25 Family (2 adults and up to 3 children). Great value season tickets which pay for themselves after only 4 visits are also available. All day tickets allow unlimited travel on all our standard gauge trains plus entry into our model railway exhibition, and (if open) museum. The Furnaces Tearoom will be open offering hot and cold drinks, snacks, cakes, ice creams and light meals to eat in or take away. The picnic area is open. Come and see if you can find all the wooden animals hiding here 😀(thanks to Pete and Alex for this). The Phoenix Miniature railway will be also be running (additional charges apply). If the weather is dry, the second hand bookstore may well be open outside the waiting room on Spring Village station. As well as railway books, we have just received a supply of gardening books, road transport and tram books. Book prices are only £2 each or 3 for £5. Come and grab yourself a bargain. All attractions subject to availability. Telford Steam Railway reserves the right to cancel, amend or substitute any locomotive or attraction without notice if required.
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Volunteer Liaison Officer update Brake Standard Open (BSO) No 9046. The metal and wooden flooring has been completed in the seating end of the coach and we are in contact with the supplier to order the vinyl flooring. External doors continue to be repaired and the guards compartment is receiving more coats of paint. As the weather is warming up, rubbing down and filling on the coach exterior has started. Crew mess room/ ‘Command Bunker’ Work continues on replacing the exterior wooden slats and repainting Garden Maintenance The grass around the Furnaces Tearoom and Railway House have been cut and the whole area looks much neat and tidy. The numerous flower beds at both Spring Village and Horsehay and Dawley stations are looking good again this year. A lot of hard work goes into making these area attractive and welcoming to our passengers. More tree saplings have been planted along our boundary at the Lawley station site Permanent Way (P-Way) Ongoing maintenance of the running line is taking place with regular track walks to ensure keys in place and any defects are identified and remedied quickly. Boundary fences and security issues are also regularly checked and maintained. For the first time in a number of years, we ran a fish and chip special on Saturday, which was hauled by North British diesel hydraulic No. 27414 “Tom”. A large shunt of the yard to up most of the day in order to get “Rocket” out of the shed and “Tom” and the train marshaled into the platform road. The special was a success, with lots of positive feedback. The fish and chips smelled lovely as well! This is something we will look to run again in July. Sunday saw “Rocket” in steam and hauling trains. The sun shone, and it was very hot on the footplate. We welcomed a couple of guests for footplate experiences during the day and it was pleasing to hear how much they had enjoyed it. There were lots of passengers again, and there were a lot of ice creams being eaten! Thanks to Alan, Shaun and Doug for the additional information used in this update We currently have an appeal to buy a new boiler for our narrow gauge steam tram. You can help us greatly by donating at https://gofund.me/093e7130 As a thank you, we are offering rewards for certain levels of donations, although every single one is gratefully received and will help put our tram back into operation. Please also consider supporting Telford Steam Railway through the Telford and Wrekin Community Lottery, which is open to anyone in the UK over 16 years old. This weekly draw gives you the opportunity to win prizes up to £25,000. Tickets cost £1 per week and 50p from each ticket sale goes directly to the railway. Sign up at https://www.twincl.co.uk/support/telford-steam-railway Our 2023 special events are now on our website: www.telfordsteamrailway.co.uk/events Our next event is the Classic Transport day on Sunday 28th May. We hope to have classic cars, land rovers, a sentinel diesel wagon and traction engine on show as well as “Rocket” hauling the trains. Special fares will be in operation - £10 Adults, £8 Children, £40 Family ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children). No concessions. The railway is then open on Bank Holiday Monday 29th May. Peckett and Sons steam engine No 1722 “Rocket” will be hauling our trains (No classic vehicles will be on display) First departure from Spring Village station (TF4 2NF - free car park) is at 11am with further departures at 12pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm. Tickets for Mondays trains £8 Adult, £5 children/concessions, £25 Family (2 adults and up to 3 children). Great value season tickets which pay for themselves after only 4 visits are also available. All day tickets allow unlimited travel on all our standard gauge trains plus entry into our model railway exhibition, and (if open) museum. The Furnaces Tearoom will be open offering hot and cold drinks, snacks, cakes, ice creams and light meals to eat in or take away. The Phoenix Miniature railway will be also be running (additional charges apply). If the weather is dry, the second hand bookstore may well be open outside the waiting room on Spring Village station. As well as railway books, we have just received a good supply of gardening books. Book prices £2 each or 3 for £5. Come and grab yourself a bargain. All attractions subject to availability. Telford Steam Railway reserves the right to cancel, amend or substitute any locomotive or attraction without notice if required. Volunteer Liaison Officer update GWR 56XX 0-6-2 tank No. 5619 Has passed its cold boiler exam. Repairs are ongoing. BR Class 37 diesel No. 37263 Is currently at the Severn Valley Railway, and will play a starring role in their Spring Diesel Gala running from 18th - 21st May. Ruston and Hornsby diesel hydraulic No. 525947 “Rusty” Work has started on dismantling the engine in order to identify the fault and start repairs Permanent Way (P-Way) The final panel of track between the Barrow Crossing and Horsehay and Dawley Station has been removed. We are now arranging for contractors to come onsite and start renewing the drainage along the track bed. Lawley Station Work has started again on making platform improvements. Our Royal Special trains ran on Sunday and Monday to celebrate the King’s Coronation. We welcomed lots of visitors over the two days and also ran a very successful cream tea service on Sunday which was completely sold out. We currently have an appeal to buy a new boiler for our narrow gauge steam tram. You can help us greatly by donating at https://gofund.me/093e7130 As a thank you, we are offering rewards for certain levels of donations, although every single one is gratefully received and will help put our tram back into operation. Please also consider supporting Telford Steam Railway through the Telford and Wrekin Community Lottery, which is open to anyone in the UK over 16 years old. This weekly draw gives you the opportunity to win prizes up to £25,000. Tickets cost £1 per week and 50p from each ticket sale goes directly to the railway. Sign up at https://www.twincl.co.uk/support/telford-steam-railway Our 2023 special events are now on our website: www.telfordsteamrailway.co.uk/events Our next event is the fish and chip special train which departs at 4pm from Spring Village station on Saturday 13 May. Tickets cost £14.99 to include meal and train ride and must be pre booked from our website www.telfordsteamrailway.co.uk/events The railway is next open on Sunday 14th May. Peckett and Sons steam engine No 1722 “Rocket” will be hauling our trains First departure from Spring Village station (TF4 2NF - free car park) is at 11am with further departures at 12pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm. Tickets £8 Adult, £5 children/concessions, £25 Family (2 adults and up to 3 children). Great value season tickets which pay for themselves after only 4 visits are also available. All day tickets allow unlimited travel on all our standard gauge trains plus entry into our model railway exhibition, and (if open) museum. The Furnaces Tearoom will be open offering hot and cold drinks, snacks, cakes, ice creams and light meals to eat in or take away. The Phoenix Miniature railway will be also be running (additional charges apply). If the weather is dry, the second hand bookstore may well be open outside the waiting room on Spring Village station. As well as railway books, we have just received a good supply of gardening books. Book prices £2 each or 3 for £5. Come and grab yourself a bargain. All attractions subject to availability. Telford Steam Railway reserves the right to cancel, amend or substitute any locomotive or attraction without notice if required. GWR 56xx 0-6-2 tank engine No 5619 The remaining boiler tubes have been swept clean. Permanent way (P-Way) No further track at Horsehay and Dawley has been lifted this week. A number of sleepers have been de chaired in Spring Village yard. These sleepers will either be recycled, or sold for garden use. This week the volunteers have mainly been getting everything ready for the Multiple Mayhem event over the bank holiday weekend. The Pacers were all given a good clean inside with the seats vacuumed and dusted, and the floors mopped. Final maintenance checks were made and Spring Village platform and yard was shunted to get everything into position to begin on Saturday. The event didn’t get off to the best start with the class 108 being unavailable for the first train. Class 144 Pacer No 144013 was used instead. Our engineers worked their magic though and the 108 was soon back up and running. They were called upon again later in the day when Class 142 Pacer No. 142004 developed a fault, but this was quickly resolved. We were not so busy on the first day, but perhaps this was because we are not normally open on Saturdays. We had many more visitors on the Sunday, and more again on Bank Holiday Monday. Many travelled long distances just to attend our event. It was great to see the railway busy, and people enjoying themselves. The Pacers and the 108 performed faultlessly after the first day, and we were able to keep to time. There were a number of shunt moves after each arrival at Spring Village to get the next unit ready for departure, and with an intensive timetable, there always seemed to be something moving! The Phoenix Miniature Railway was in action on all three days, as was the model railway exhibition and Furnaces tearoom, which were all very popular. The weather was (just about) dry enough for the 2nd hand bookstore to open for the first time this season. Typically there were no books available on Pacers or DMUs that we could sell, still there is always next time! Thank you to all our fantastic volunteers who have worked so hard to make the event happen, and to all our visitors for making it such a success. We hope to see you again at our next multiple mayhem event in June. We currently have an appeal to buy a new boiler for our narrow gauge steam tram. You can help us greatly by donating at https://gofund.me/093e7130 As a thank you, we are offering rewards for certain levels of donations, although every single one is gratefully received and will help put our tram back into operation. Please also consider supporting Telford Steam Railway through the Telford and Wrekin Community Lottery, which is open to anyone in the UK over 16 years old. This weekly draw gives you the opportunity to win prizes up to £25,000. Tickets cost £1 per week and 50p from each ticket sale goes directly to the railway. Sign up at https://www.twincl.co.uk/support/telford-steam-railway Our 2023 special events are now on our website: www.telfordsteamrailway.co.uk/events The railway is next open on Sunday 7th and Monday 8th May for our Coronation Celebrations The stations will be decorated with bunting, and the “The Royal Special” headboard will be in use on both days. On Sunday we will have both Peckett and Sons steam engine No 1722 “Rocket” AND BR Class 08 diesel No. 08757 “Eagle” top and tailing a two coach train. On Monday Pecket and Sons steam engine No 1722 “Rocket” will be hauling our trains consisting of a coach and ‘Toad’ brakevan. On both days First departure from Spring Village station (TF4 2NF - free car park) is at 11am with further departures at 12pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm. Tickets £8 Adult, £5 children/concessions, £25 Family (2 adults and up to 3 children). Great value season tickets which pay for themselves after only 4 visits are also available. All day tickets allow unlimited travel on all our standard gauge trains plus entry into our model railway exhibition, and (if open) museum. The Furnaces Tearoom will be open offering hot and cold drinks, snacks, cakes, ice creams and light meals to eat in or take away. The Phoenix Miniature railway will be also be running (additional charges apply). If the weather is dry, the second hand bookstore may well be open outside the waiting room on Spring Village station. Come and grab yourself a bargain. All attractions subject to availability.Telford Steam Railway reserves the right to cancel, amend or substitute any locomotive or attraction without notice if required. |
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