Isle of Wight Steam Railway Carriage and Wagon updates

This is what I have found after a little more research, the crane was purchased in 1912 by the IWCR. The IWCR used open wagon 28 as the match truck, it may have been necessary to cut the body down to one plank to make it more suitable. No 28 was built by the LSWR in the 1890s. At some time after the 1920s the match truck visited Ryde works where it was heavily rebuilt using standard LBSCR parts. This could be an accounts rebuild, to all intents and purposes it was "new" but classed as a rebuild.

 

Thanks Gary

Let's hope that the 2014 rebuild is not too pleasing for the accountants!

Nick

 

Details of the appeal to return the Railway's SECR carriages to service are now on the website here:

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/historic-carriages-appeal.aspx

All contributions gratefully received!

 

The latest update is now online

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/news/carriage-and-wagon-news-january-2014-80.aspx

 

Gary seeing that rake of PMV's sitting on the platform road, did the island have any PMV's that ran during the steam days, i cant for the life of me remember every seing any pictures of a parcels train, i would have thought that any luggage would have gone into the extended brake van on the passenger rakes.

 

Yes they did there were at least 6 air braked PMVs sent to the Island they were in addition to the existing full brakes. Parcels trains did run in steam days, the large passenger brakes were mostly for passengers luggage.

We have 2 of the original air braked Island PMVs one is S1046 which is in service restored to Island condition and the other one is S1052 which will be restored sometime in the future.

 

You can see some Island PMVs on these pages:-

http://www.semgonline.com/location/iow/cowes_02.html

http://www.semgonline.com/steam/o2class_03.html

There were three at Havenstreet, but one underframe is now under one of the 4 wheeled carriages.

 

The latest update is now on line

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/news/carriage-and-wagon-news-march-2014-94.aspx

 

Hi Gary,

curious question- just looking at the work on 4115, what type of wood are you using for the side/end panels?

We have a similar vehicle and being normally on the end of the train it tends to get the brunt of the sun etc. which doesn't do anything for the paint job.

Regards

Matt

 

We have just had a couple of sample sheets from Robbins timber in Bristol, it is a really good quality hard wood ply. It is expensive but I have a feeling that it will pay off in the long run. Lack of sufficient budgets during past restorations has resulted in a much bigger maintenance workload than we would like. We have had to replace some sheets that are only 10 to 15 years old.

I will send you a PM with the exact details from work tomorrow.

Gary

 

Apologies for going slightly off-topic Gary, but would the IWSR be interested in another Island loco? Posted over on wnxx, the cut down 03179 is now available to a good home:

Chris

 

Chris thanks for the heads up, I shall pass the information on.

 

Nice to see three rakes of wagons looking spic & span in your latest photos Gary - the bolster set, the goods train set and (in the background) the engineers' set!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwalkeriow/13056264723/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwalkeriow/13056247313/in/photostream/

 

Have a look at the IWSR website for a short report on the restoration of LBSCR 10-ton Goods Van 46923. Its almost complete now, the major outstanding job is the lettering. Pictures of it sat outside the Train Story building with the other heritage wagons.

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/news/lbscr-10ton-goods-van-rebuild-almost-complete-99.aspx

 

The April C&W update has just been published. The headlines this month are the completion of LBSCR 10-ton van 46923 and pictures of the first outing of the heritage wagon fleet this season, headed by Terrier W11.

In the workshop, good progress is being made on the restoration of LBSCR 3-Compartment Brake Third 4115. Underframe preparation for the follow-on restoration project, LCDR Brake Third 4115 (it's going to get confusing!), is now well underway.

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/news/carriage-and-wagon-news-april-2014-106.aspx

 

Nice. On the GCR we used to have two buffet coaches (BR Mk.1 and Gresley) each numbered 1852, but the Gresley has moved on since. I wonder how many more railways have this sort of confusion?

 

A bit of news about the heritage goods wagons.

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/news/island-terriers-double-head-the-goods-111.aspx

 

Looking at Gary's Flickr site Havenstreet C&W seems to have become Havenstreet Wagon Works these days! Good to see.

 

The demonstration goods train looks as if it is popular with the visitors:

https://www.facebook.com/128859617189527/photos/pcb.640432136032270/640429982699152/?type=1&theater

 

The May C&W update is now on the website - just a day late! With most of the working carriage fleet out on the road for the season the main focus is currently on the long-term projects, such as the initial restoration of the two 4115s (LBSCR and LCDR) and the rebuilding of the LSWR crane match truck. A steady flow of wagons have been coming through for a refresh.

http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/news/carriage-and-wagon-news-may-2014-114.aspx