7027 Thornbury Castle

Reminds me a little bit of this…

 

No need thanks. I know what I need to know, which isnt a lot and I'm satisfied not knowing.

 

All gone a bit quiet on the Thornbury Castle front. Is still donating to a worthy cause?

 

Hopefully folks have seen sense and she will be restored in her own right and not butchered.

 

Hmmm - Nothing on the website since last August …….


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Or Facebook. But their previous update was September 2022 so 11 months previous. It's only been 6 months since the last one!

To drag up this comment from six months ago, I think it's fair to say both 4709 and 7027 are GWS locos.

"Expenditure overall for restoration and preservation increased from last year and amounted to £1,663,287 as compared to £875,782 last year. The Water Tower restoration was £477,041 and locomotives with notable levels of expenditure included Loco 1014, Loco 1466 and Loco 4709. Expenditure on Loco 4709 included the acquisition of component parts from Loco 7027 and full and final settlement of these amounts will be made in the coming financial year."

From https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=/accounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A14096623&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=/accounts-and-annual-returns&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=272616

 

It's all gone very quiet, not seen much mention of 4709 in the Echo even, for a group that is a) trying to pay for a locomotive they have recently purchased, and b) trying to fund the completion of said project they seem to be incredibly quiet on all matters.

On the bright side they don't seem to have been blighted by the same woes which have been suffered by the Patriot project in having to basically redo loads of tuff undertaken at the same time in the same place after the engineering audits were completed.

 

I note that the Didcot Railway Centre shows 4709 on it's stock list despite it being built elsewhere and as I had thought, independently from the main GWS?

https://didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/article.php/50/steam-locomotives

There is no mention of 7027 as an historical relict as there is for 280T 5227

 

Is she at Tyseley, about 35 secs into this?

 

4709 or frames there of, were at Llangollen, then Tyseley but never Didcot afaik

 

Didn't the 47xx then end up going down to Devon somewhere between Llangollen and Tyseley, pretty sure she has never been near Didcot so far, albeit my comment re the Video at Tyseley related to 7027?

 

Sorry yes, 7027 is at Tyseley with 4709 afaik. My point was that Didcot mention one but not the other as part of their stock list.

 

One suspects that one is rather more controversial than the other, which possibly explains the overall silence for now.