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Mutual Improvement Classes, Ropley 2001
"Bodmin" -
Heavy General Overhaul of Rebuilt
Bulleid 'West Country' Class #34016 (Haynes
Manual for Bulleid restorations)
A Series of Pages showing what was happening
on particular days at Ropley Motive Power Depot:
12 August 2001,
9 August 2001,
6 August 2001,
12 Jan 2001,
20 Oct 1998,
7 Apr 1998
Restoration of A4 #60019:
'Bittern' (Haynes
Manual for Gresley A4 restorations)
#73096 being prepared for 4th Sept 1999 mainline
excursion (to Cambridge)
Class 33 diesel #D6593
Walschaerts valvegear (gif animation)
Stephenson valvegear (as on Thomas) (gif
animation)
Ivatt 2-6-2 tank engine
#41312: its restoration and early runs
in January 1999
(Bubs with gudgeon pins; beading
boiler tubes; hydraulic & steam tests;
superheater header;
cladding; &
red oxide roll-out)
Replacement of a cylinder liner on
#41312
Painting #35005 in the proper green
Maintenance work on Bulleid Merchant Navy
Class #35005: 'Canadian Pacific', 2001
11th-hr night-shift at Ropley MPD, 8th
Jan 99: staff and volunteers mend U-Class #31625 against the
clock
Water tanks are removed from
Thomas in Ropley Loco Yard on 20th October 1998
Ed Burkhardt (then Chairman
of EWS) visits MHR on 23rd July 1998
S15 pictures
S160 with 23rd July 1998
picture. (See also action! picture
on Mid-Hants Railway Website)
Wheeldrop 5th May 1998
and 16th February 1999 (plus: what it does &
how it works)
Class 33 ('Crompton'):
newly-preserved #33109 is overhauled at Ropley on 10 March 1998
D6593 Class 33 diesel,
including a picture of its big-end problem of March 1998
Laying new siding at Alton on 20th
February 1998
Work in the firebox of BR Standard Class
5 #73096
Informal measurement (not always in inches
and thou)
Madeira Railway photos from the 1930s
Slow Train: words of the Flanders &
Swann song
Waterloo Station photo from
about 1930
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