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MHR Open day 21st Sept

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by 73129, Sep 19, 2013.

  1. 73129

    73129 Part of the furniture

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    Hi Everyone,

    This coming Saturday is the MHR open day. According to the MHR web site the freight train will be running plus the Hampshire unit and a standard two train service will be in operation.


    http://www.watercressline.co.uk/product.php?xProd=32

    Time table

    http://www.watercressline.co.uk/shopimages/articles/extra/OPEN DAY 2013 new.pdf
     
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    An extra bonus for anyone that likes 37905. The following info was put on WNXX forum.

    For those of you with a Slug persuasion, D6836 (37905) will work one trip tomorrow towards the end of the day, as part of the Railways Members / Shareholders day. Slug 5 has now had its re-certified air tanks refitted as well as the CO2 bottles so is now back in traffic.

    Slug 5 will replace the steam on the 15:08 Alresford to Alton (loco swap at Ropley, 15:30 Dep Ropley) and work to Alton and Back with the 16:26 Alton to Alresford service. It will then sort the shunting and the Real Ale Train ECS for the evening.
     
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    "Slug"?
     
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    Slug is the nickname for the Class 37/9 sub-class, because of their slow build up of power when moving away. - apparently. Says so on Yahoo answers so it must be true.

    Richard
     
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    I went along yesterday. It was an enjoyable unhurried day (and did see the "Slug"). I was very impressed with some of the large loco parts (dragboxes, smokeboxes and the like) that have been manufactured from new at Ropley. I reckon It will not be long before entire frames could be made here, because it is clear the expertise exists as well as much of the tooling. Space and heavy lifting appear to be the only problems.
    I hope all the heritage railways combine to keep as much of this engineering onshore as possible. There is constant presssure to buy cheap from places like China but we still have railway workshops standing empty (eg at Eastleigh) where a steady stream of work could sustain a skilled workforce and could even lead to exports provided sufficient work is fed to keep the order books full. We could even think about reinstating a railway foundry somewhere if all the new build and restoration schemes agreed to use it.
     
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