John Bennett 17th February, 2020
Mid February, 2020
18/19th January 2020- a grimy weekend
The arrival of the military and their impressive track laying exercise effectively banished Robin Vintner and myself from the cosy little workshop in which the ongoing maintenance and reconstruction of the BVLR locomotives and rolling stock is under way, but gave
Latest “Blyth” photos 30.11.19
The latest photos from the NorthBay workshop kindly sent through by David Humphreys who notes the following: The first cylinder is almost to size. The second one will be completed in the next week or so, then they are both going
End of November 2019
John Bennett 25.11.19
“Blyth” makes progress. 3rd November, 2019
Latest exciting photographs from the North Bay Engineering workshop showing axle boxes in process of being fitted to the “Blyth” frames. Upside down of course. The work looks typically first rate. Must get up to Darlington again soon.
End of August 2019
It is the last day of the Summer Open Day season but work carries on at the Steamworks site. The MNR carriage has now been fully reglazed and a temporary roof applied to protect it from the elements over the
June 17th, 2019
Some pictures of Scaldwell, our three foot gauge loco, showing some polished up components and the spectacular benefits of elbow grease. Comparison of after and before here. That is our Locomotive Engineer, Oliver Denham, working deep within.
17th April, 2019
The latest picture of the “Blyth” locomotive boiler with ready for its 58 tubes in the Darlington workshop of North Bay Railway Engineering Services. I confess I find it rather emotional watching this machine come back to life. Many thanks
13th March, 2019
To Darlington then. Peter Southgate and I visited the North Bay Engineering workshop in this interesting town yesterday to see the work well under way on the boiler of Blyth, the 2-4-0 Sharp Stewart replica which will operate down at
1st February, 2019
Work continues on the boiler for Blyth, the replica Sharp Stewart locomotive the Trust has commissioned. Thanks again to David Humphreys of North Bay Engineering for sending us these photos taken in the Darlington workshop. The SRT board has just