Plans are now coming together for our Autumn Diesel Day on Saturday 21st September. The event will feature 6940, D5310 and provisionally 08195 on a driver-for-a-fiver working, location tbc but the Bonwm extension has been requested!
A beerex evening working is likely to be included and we hope to be able to issue a timetable soon.
More updates to follow shortly!
A belated big thank you to all those who supported our 1960’s weekend at the end of last month. The weekend sees the whole Diesel Group involved in delivering this popular event for the Railway, with us getting involved in tasks rather different from our usual activites – from weathering a visiting Black 5………
……to setting up and manning Dr Beeching’s Bar, which was besieged on Saturday night, sold out of real ale and made a record profit!
The event was busy and went well, with both D5310 and 6940 working on both days. Both locos put in some sterling and intensive service, with D5310 working 11 return trips flawlessly, including a storming night run on the Saturday to return campers back to Carrog after the well-attended music concert on Llangollen station. She is seen below in the sylvan setting of Deeside Halt while a minor signalling problem was being dealt with at Glyndyfrdwy on Sunday 28th July.
6940 worked 7 trips, performing perfectly until a loss of power on Sunday afternoon saw the decision made to remove her from the last train of the day as a precaution and put D5310 out in her place, right time. 6940’s issue thankfully looks to be nothing serious, an inspection plug had worked loose on one of the A bank cylinders. This has been refitted and loco will be started and tested shortly to confirm all is well. She is seen below arriving at Glyndyfrdwy on Sunday 28th, glimpsed from the secondman’s windscreen of D5310 displaying a suitable headcode, as usual!
Out of the news for over a year, D1566 was inspected on Saturday 17th August in readiness for her overhaul. This will see work on the power unit to change the transition joints, some bodywork and a repaint. Watch this space! Thanks to Tom Shilliam for the photo, which shows the “Spoon” on the inspection pit at Llangollen.
