The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Preservation Society
Douglas achieves highest mileage
Douglas Ferreira achieved the highest mileage of the fleet for 2013, covering 11,179¾ miles. The next highest was Northern Rock with 7,618½, then visitor Wroxham Broad with 5,956 miles.
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December 2013 Magazine Number 211
The December magazine has been published. View as pdf
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Lady Wakefield returned to the railway following a rebuild at TMA Engineering in Birmingham. She took a trip up the line on 6 December, pictured here at Dalegarth.
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River Mite returned to traffic on 30 July 2013. It was overhauled during the 2012/13 winter. It had been expected to return to service in the spring, but the overhaul
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River Irt is currently under repair at Numech in Workinton. In January, the boiler was sent away for a re-tube and rivet/stay repairs, returning to Ravenglass on 5th July. The
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River Esk is currently stored, unserviceable. River Esk was in the middle of a major overhaul at the time of the workshop fire. The chassis had been completely stripped so
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The hero of the season so far has undoubtedly been the loco Perkins, which has worked virtually all the overnight trains and often up to five trips a day in
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Lady Wakefield to be re-engined at TMA
Lady Wakefield is at TMA Engineering receiving a new Perkins engine and other modifications, including wheel reprofiling and bogie repairs. The larger engine size will necessitate changes to the bonnet
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From Magazine 210, September 2013 On 28th March 2013, a fire ripped through the engineering workshop in Ravenglass, destroying the building. Tools and locomotive parts were in the building at
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