On Monday, 1369 once again took to the harbourside to star in a photo charter in central Bristol, organised by 30742 charters.
Here are some photos from the day, thanks to Bob Edwardes and David Stagg.
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Sulphuric Acid Tanker – Refurbished
The ‘tarting up’ of the tanker has been completed by the weekday volunteering team.
The Coles having been fixed at the weekend meant the tanker could be manoeuvred onto the running line yesterday. Katie was on hand to take these photos.
With the wagon re-railed, the lid could be craned into place. This wasn’t removed during the previous restoration but it has enabled some remedial work to be done inside the tank.
Bruce did the honours of tightening up the new/refurbished securing hooks.
All done! A nice quick win for the team and proof if proof be need be that the team can turn around wagon overhauls in good time.
Henbury Holiday, Coles Controls and Toad TLC
Henbury is currently on vacation down at the South Devon Railway. Unfortunately it missed its guest appearance at the winter gala partially due to a weeping washout plug. Hopefully the SDR engineers can work their magic on it while its at Buckfastleigh.
Bob Edwardes and I got some photos of Henbury and the SDR fleet over the course of the gala,
Back at M Shed, the Coles has been having issues with its control switches. Tis was traced to eroded contacts. These were replaced with NOS contacts (never throw anything away) and after some fettling, seems to have worked, with the crane being able to move again.
The TOAD’s refurbished springs are due back soon, and the shed space will be required, so there have been a few work sessions at cleaning up the underside (which may not have been touched in decades). Plenty of scraping, grinding, brushing, rust treatment and onto primer. Some volunteers almost managed to get more paint on themselves than the van…
There was also maintenance to do on Larry the Loader and John King the tug.
Thanks to Katie and Bob for the photos!
Sulphuric Acid Tanker in for the Winter
The tanker was picked up and turned 90 degrees today to get it into L Shed. The plan is to give the tank a spruce-up as it’s suffered more than the chassis out in the open and the paint is looking rather tatty. The Coles Crane slewed the wagon around by picking up the end and moving it over a piece at a time.
Thanks to Chris E for the photos.
Last Operating Weekend of 2024 (Sunday)
That’s it! Another season of passenger operations finished. Now the winter maintenance can begin.
This includes getting the tank of the Sulphiric Acid Tanker rubbed down and repainted. The chassis is still in good condition but the tank has suffered a bit from flaking paint and rust bubbles.
The Coles Crane was used to bring the tanker out of the yard and set it down on to Henbury at the end of the working day. The steam loco then propelled it onto the quayside to be pressure-washed. Earlier in the day we did a test lift to ensure the crane would be able to slew it into the warehouse.
Henbury was then ashed out (the plates in the ashpan were removed at the same time) and taken back to the shed as the light faded.
Thanks to Katie Richards for the photos.
Last Operating Weekend of 2024
Tomorrow is the last day of passenger services on the BHR this year. This morning there was quite a bit of shunting to do to put the Toad back on the train after fulfilling its ‘waiting room’ duties for Have-A-Go week. Similarly the BD and red flat wagon were put back into the yard having been used to limit the area of quayside Henbury could shunt up and down on.
It was also David’s final day as a driver on passenger trains. David’s been a key part of the preserved railway on the docks since the very beginning in 1978.
A few more pics from the day – thanks to Jay Parker and Katie Richards for some of these.
A big shunt also took place at the end of the day to release the sulphuric acid tanker, which is getting some TLC over winter. Henbury had to pull most of the stock out of the back road and towards the shed before propelling it into the middle road. Thanks to Katie for these photos.
66045 at the Talyllyn
Ex-PBA wagon and former BHR resident, 4-wheel open No. 66045, is now the property of the Talyllyn Railway and will be on display at Tywyn Wharf station.
The wagon has been cosmetically restored in Cambrian Railways livery and will be on a short piece of standard gauge track to show how slate was transhipped from the narrow gauge trucks.
Thanks to Luke Ryan for the photo
See more about this ex-Bristolian wagon in the video:
Henbury and Horticulture
A few atmospheric shots from the bank holiday weekend.
Meanwhile, work on the branch has started with a view to running passenger trains once more. The Coles Crane was set to work with a runner wagon to assist with cutting back the hedges on the bridge curve.
Thanks to Katie Richards for the photos.
Friday Shunting
Trains are running every day this bank holiday weekend, but on Friday an unusual shunting move took place to retrieve one of the flat wagons from the headshunt at SS Great Britain Halt.
Alex was on hand to capture these shots.
Portbury in the Workshop
With the GWR O18 wagon freshly painted and out on the quayside again, it was time for Portbury to go in to the workshop to continue its 10 year overhaul. The volunteers and staff have done a lot of prep work getting the tank off and freeing up the boiler.
Henbury was being warmed up on Saturday for the move whilst the track inside the workshop had been extended.
On Monday morning, Henbury dragged its shedmate onto the quayside and Crane 32 was used to lift the boiler off and onto the boiler trolley.
Thanks to Art Spicer for this photo.
Dave Blackburn took these photos of the boiler lift and shunt.
The rolling chassis required a larger crane so one was hired to pick up the two halves of the loco, turn them through 90 degrees and onto the track going in to the workshop.
Thanks again to Dave Blackburn for these photos of the lift:
Now it’s all inside, work can continue!
Thanks to Bob Edwardes for these photos.
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