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Author: Mark Pedley

499's piston block held in place

Pushing forward

June 17, 2018 Mark Pedley 10,988 Comments

Work on 506 is now largely in the hands of the MHR engineering team. With the running fleet to be…

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Posted in: S15 499, S15 506
S15 506 boiler

Engineering on 2 fronts

November 10, 2017 Mark Pedley 230 Comments

At last the ULS engineering team has begun working on 2 fronts. In the last update, it was announced that…

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Posted in: S15 499, Sales
urie society with wave 105 broadcaster mark collins

Urie Society support

October 22, 2017 Mark Pedley 8,881 Comments

Following an afternoon discussing the trials and tribulations of restoring old steam locomotives, renowned radio presenter and railway enthusiast, Mark…

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S15 506's cylinder block

Working flat out

June 5, 2017 Mark Pedley Leave a comment

The team have been working flat out on 30506, the front end rebuild of which is now complete. This has…

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Posted in: S15 506
These really were the last row of rivets!

Lots of head scratching

November 27, 2016 Mark Pedley 11,195 Comments

In the July report we commented that we had fully riveted the centre casting of 30506 to the new frame…

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Posted in: S15 506

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