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Locomotives - Operational Locos - Locos under overhaul - Locos on static display - Locos formerly based on the Bluebell Loco Roster - Loco Stock List - Loco Works News - Join the Loco Dept Locomotive Works NewsOverhaul of Fletcher Jennings 0-4-0T "Baxter"
14 March 2010
Trevor West's photo shows recent progress with the overhaul. The loco has been re-railed. The boiler has passed its steam test and been re-fitted to the frames. The loco now has new axleboxes, and a new front buffer beam, in addition to the work done to the boiler. 5 May 2008 The first photo above shows that new platework for the firebox has now been welded, riveted and had the stays fitted and this repair is now virtually finished. The photo also shows what we are reliably informed are Stuart Marks' feet! Work has also continued on the paintwork, the most obvious being the smoke box, which Katy Brown was painting on 5th May, when these photos were taken. The small mudhole doors on the backplate have now been replaced with washout plugs, as seen in the first photo below. The concrete has been removed from the smokebox and this revealed corroded plate and rivets. The plate has now been built up with weld and the rivets replaced. The new boiler tubes have been delivered, painted and pinned into place in the boiler and now await expansion. This is seen below, with Dave Martin at work.
20 January 2008
The team working on it are: Dave Martin - heating the rivets More of Nick's photos are on his photobox site. Ken Upton's photos of the work on Baxter the same day.
September 2007 The engine now has a new front buffer beam fitted, the timber having been prepared in the Carriage & Wagon Dept., and a new piece of boiler plate has been welded into the firebox.
The coded welder is expected in the next few weeks to do some more work
on the fitting of washout plugs to replace the small mudhole doors that
were on the backplate.
January 2007 A visit by our coded welder to weld in a new piece of boiler plate is awaited.
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