Black's Railway Workshop

A little atmosphere for this evening in the workshop. :)

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Me and my dog "Shadow" near Penmaenpool

If you can help Talyllyn Railway Appeals it would be much appreciated, thanks. Please share.

Members who've seen the latest 'Talyllyn News' will have seen the exciting Stop Press, which includes the news that we have decided that our preferred plan for Pendre is Option C.
However, it also comes with a challenge that we need to raise, or have committed, the remaining funding as soon as possible. Therefore, if you haven't donated to The 75 Appeal yet or signed up as a regular donor with 'The 75 Club', please do so.
Go to: www.talyllyn.co.uk/75appeal and follow the links.

For my railway friends out there, they can do worse than check out this YouTube channel of the sugar cane railway in India that has some interesting trains and track!

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Let's save this working locomotive from scrap, every little helps. Come on, rally together and help Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels save this nice Ruston locomotive. Thanks.

Help raise £6000 to Save Ruston 281266 from being sent to Scrap! Weʼre raising money to Save Ruston 281266 from being sent to Scrap!. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

A blast from the past, that boy is me with my father, mucking about in the early 1980s where I was learning to drive the digger. Behind is 6039, a beyer garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4 locomotive, one of around 30 locomotives in the collection. Nice fun memories.

Here in Tywyn, Southern Snowdonia, Wales, we got a great display of the Aurora lights tonight. It was surreal.

Busy in the workshop and the music from "Top Gun" movie, playing over the speakers! Hopefully the danger zone doesn't involve me and the first aid kit!

Just watching this YouTube video which includes metal forging, a fascinating process that in many parts is consigned to history.

SHED RACING - Bugatti Type 35 Hollow Front Axle - The Forging Process In the 1920s, Ettore Bugatti designed a hollow forged axle for his racing cars such as the Type 35 and Type 51. This enabled him to create lightweight cars b...

Working hard in the workshop and listening to my favourite radio station https://www.australiantruckradio.com.au/
If you aren't in Australia, then don't allow it to know your location.
This radio station has a lot of laughs between the songs, and the songs are country, rock, pop, heavy metal, and many others. They even play some 90s dance as well.
Check them out, thanks.

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Multitasking today! Cut above the rest?
How's your Monday going?

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A great video from my friend Graeme Belbin in NSW, Australia. Please enjoy.

Mandalong Valley Tramway. Perry locomotive, No.7, unloading and first steaming, Two foot gauge Perry locomotive arrives at Mandalong for repair and reassembly then has its first steaming since 1998. Then a broken rail brings the day to a...

Good afternoon from Pendre, Talyllyn Railway
The sun is out and plenty of work to do, volunteer if you like, always welcome.

I've been a quiet chap at the moment, Railway Modeller have a deal that when you subscribe to their magazine you get full access to their archives going back to 1949, Issue 1. Needless to say, there is so much useful details in there to keep me quiet for a good amount of time to come, and the articles are downloadable too! Happy days. :)

Going back through some family history down my father's mothers side, and found my Great Uncle who died in World War 1, Seargent Joseph Henry Winterbottom. Two relations served on the Somme, and unfortunately Joseph died.

Joseph Henry Winterbottom Joseph Henry Winterbottom's name is located at panel 35 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial (as indicated by the poppy on the plan).

This will be a grand sight on completion, two London & South Western Railway 4-4-0 tender steam engines running at the same time, thanks to the Swanage Railway Trust 563 Locomotive Group
If you can help, it would be much appreciated, thank you. :)

The 563LG is delighted to launch Project 120!

We have made no secrets about our intention to undertake the restoration of the the T9 once 563 was finished. We hope that you are as excited by the prospect of the two LSWR 4-4-0’s working together as we are?

Our partnership with the T9’s owners, the National Railway Museum, has grown and deepened since the loco arrived at Swanage needing repair in 2017. Not only was the necessary work quickly completed to their satisfaction, but of course they have been very keen to see how we have looked after 563 since it was transferred to the Trust later that same year.

We are therefore pleased to have reached a new agreement with the Museum to initially assess the condition of the locomotive, ahead of a commitment to return her to steam for further service on the Swanage Railway.

This approach is very much the same process we adopted with the T3, except this time we have experience from 563 and we already have a fantastic group of supporters but we're always looking forward to welcoming more...

We've created a new page on our website which you can visit for more details and importantly how you can donate! www.563locomotivegroup.co.uk/project120

📸 Andrew PM Wright

Can you help Friends of 44422 with their enquiry please, thanks.

Earlier this year 44422 underwent an external repaint, and since then the loco is to normally be found on display at Cheddleton station.

Whilst work is ongoing behind the scenes, we are looking to relaunch a website giving the history and significance of the locomotive to the railway community.

If anyone has any pictures of the loco in operation (both prior and since preservation) that we could utilise with this, could you please email ourselves at [email protected] with a low res copy. Full acknowledgment will be given for any images utilised.

Kind Regards

(Photo Courtesy of C Meadowcroft)

This is bound to be lots of fun, Will Hay day on the Great Central Railway, don't go wating your time at home feeling like Prisoner 99, come along and have a great day out. 😀

The Great Central Railway in association with The Will Hay Appreciation Society present:

"Will Hay Day - Return to Buggleskelly" at Quorn and Woodhouse Station, Leicestershire on Saturday 15th June 2024!

After a four year break, we are delighted to be back celebrating all things Will Hay.

Full details will follow once Harbottle has finished washing his pants, but you can expect fun for all the family and our usual Hay Day madness (I'm not quite sure GCR know what they're letting themselves in for...)

please save the date for now, and more details including ticket info will be revealed soon at https://www.gcrailway.co.uk/will-hay-day/

A customer ordered a set of driving wheels from me (he saw my coal tank wheels) for a London and North Western Railway A class 0-8-0 tender locomotive and here they are, ready for posting. Only one set of crank pins were requested, gauged to 33mm (scale 7mm standards) and the axles have correct dimples in the ends. They came out nice, with my 3D printed centres and turned up EN8 steel tyres.

Some great preservation work in NSW Australia.
Cooma Monaro Railway Inc.

It was great to watch The Funky Farmer bring home his Dad's old Massy 35 tractor. You can see part 2 here https://youtu.be/wwBOvFSmheU?si=8TwPJEtrMAdwjnep , after it leaves Farmer P. Bradley farm. where she had been on display as an attraction for fund raising with FarmerP's Pantry , and before that it was on a farm in Wiltshire for 20 years.

Please give their pages a like/share and watch this video, thanks.

You can find Farmer P's YouTube channel here at https://www.youtube.com/

BRINGING THE MASSEY FERGUSON HOME. PART 2 IT'S ON THE FARM FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/theoriginalfunkyfarmerINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/richardcornock/?hl=enWEBSITE www.richardcornock.c...

Talyllyn Railway No.2 heading up the line, like she has done for many years.