News from the 6024 Preservation Society Ltd
Sponsored Cycle Ride for 6024
6024 member and volunteer, Tom Whittington, is fundraising to help with the final stages of the overhaul of 6024 by undertaking a sponsored cycle ride between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead on 11th September. The money raised will be split between the 6024 Preservation Society and our friends at the West Somerset Railway. If you would like to sponsor Tom please visit his Just Giving page at https://www.justgiving. com/crowdfunding/tom-whittington-6024?utm_ term=Bq3MvEqG8, or send a cheque to the individual organisations.
New bogies for the Support Coach No W35333. These B5 bogies replace the previously used Commonwealth type. We are now waiting on wheelsets and springs (Richard Corser
6024 Support Coach
Richard Corser has recently visited Arlington Fleet Service in Eastleigh to view progress on No.6024’s Mk1 support coach. The bogies, which have held up progress, are now onsite but we are still waiting on wheelsets and springs to allow them to be completed. New bolsters for the chassis to match the new bogies are being sourced. The outstanding work list has been agreed which will be progressed as soon as the coach is on its bogies. This includes a Network Rail funded fitment of a Controlled Emission Toilet (CET) to make the vehicle compliant with the latest standards for mainline operations. Whilst the overhaul has taken much longer than originally planned this is working in our favour as the CET work is only now ready to proceed. If the support coach had been finished sooner it would have had to have been lifted off its bogies again for CET fitting. Once completed the support coach will be moved to the WSR for further internal work.
As part of the work being undertaken on the inside of the support coach, some repanelling has taken place, as on this door (Richard Corser)
Model Railway Engines and Sundry Items for Sale
Due to health issues and a house move, expressions of interest are sought for the purchase of the following: 3.5″ gauge live steam modified Hall (out of boiler ticket, but has run), together with part-built Collett 4,000 gallon tender. Reeves LBSC Princess Marina, LMS 2-6-0 with tender, constructed it is believed in 1944 (has run, but no longer in boiler ticket). 3.5″ bogie driver’s trolley. Approx. 80 yard brass flat bottom rail with timber trestles both erected and unlaid, stored, unused. Complete workshop including MK7 Myford lathe (1955), single phase. Clarke metal worker pillar drill, single phase. Alpine complex drilling and milling machine (1980). Large quantity of steel and brass stock, tools and workshop sundries, together with work benches, shelves racking etc. etc. from 10′ x 8′ workshop. The whole to preferably be purchased as one ‘job lot’, but would consider splitting. Photographs available. Buyer to remove. Located south of Birmingham within five miles of the M42/J3. All enquires to Richard Abbey 01564 794343 or 07771 887172
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