Sorry it’s continued to be a bit quiet on here of late. A big thanks to those who came along to support our running at the Western Changeover Gala last month. The event proved a challenge for us, with both 6940 and 1566 suffering failures. 1566 was quickly remedied thanks to a late night repair of a coolant hose and back in traffic for the Saturday and Sunday of the 3 day event. 6940 was also repaired with a suspect control circuit breaker but unfortunately failed again on the Saturday, so was replaced with D5310 making for a rather pleasant “Sulzer Sunday”.
6940’s failures were traced to the breakdown of the coil in the electromagnetic fan clutch. A replacement was sourced, fitted and successfully tested last week. This wasn’t the easiest or cheapest of jobs but Mark Smales managed to fashion an excellent tool for removal of the clutch and Unipart Rail remarkably still had a clutch on the shelf! 6940 should now be fit for our 9th of June running day and 10th June driver experience, pending a test run in the next week or so.
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1566 completed her 22nd April running day successfully but there were a few issues that came to light that require attention. We will confirm if she is fit for her 16th June running day in due course.
D5310 continues to be available but we plan to withdraw her for repainting as a matter of priority and as soon as we can get her under cover in order to replace cab window seals and attend to some minor bodywork corrosion.
Loco allocations for Classic Transport weekend in July and 1960’s weekend in August will be confirmed in due course.