Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will not be conducting a steam test today. We will however have a good selection of ride on trains on our Hurworth Grange track from 10am until 12.30
We are running our trains this Sunday from 10am until 12.30 at The Grange Community Centre at Hurworth.![]()
We will have our recently refurbished "Gert" on the track, pulling passengers and we will have some electrics and maybe another steam train.![]()
Please bear with us if we are a little slow, I am trying to get some of our members to help out because some of our members will be involved in carrying out a steam test on a member's engine.![]()
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We have just appointed some new boiler inspectors but until they are trained up, we will not be using them.![]()
We have a member's train which is due a steam test and we have an experienced boiler tester available on Sunday. We are therefore taking the opportunity to both carry out the steam test and also use the opportunity to carry out some training.![]()
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Of course this is all outside on our steaming bays so anyone can observe what is happening and if you ask one of the members, they will explain what is happening.![]()
We are expecting to start the steam test from about 10am.![]()
See you Sunday.![]()
Mick
Our newly refurbished steam train "Gert" should be back on the track on Sunday pulling passengers. It has just been given a detailed inspection by it's caretaker after its initial run of passenger pulling to make sure that everything is bedding in O.K. and everything is fine.![]()
Mick
We will be running our trains this Sunday. We run on the first and third Sunday in the month on our permanent track at The Grange Community Centre at Hurworth from 10am until 12.30.![]()
We are not sure which engines to use as some of our members have been buying some new ones, one of which, none of us has seen yet. These are electric but we will also be using steam engines as well.![]()
We have a limited number of passenger trucks so we will probably be swapping them around to allow people the experience of riding on different trains.![]()
Hope to see you on Sunday.![]()
Mick
We have extended our anti slip runners on our platform which will enable us to park more trains safely in the station area and we are doing some work on our storage tunnel and the station sign, watch this space.