Research
LNWR George the Fifth Trust becomes a Partner of the Friends of Crewe Heritage Centre
The heart of the London & North Western Railway will forever be Crewe and in turn Crewe substantially owes its rapid transformation from a tiny village in the early 19th century to a significant regional centre of over 70,000 inhabitants today to the London & North Western Railway; its antecedents and descendants. The existence of…
Read MoreAn update on the smokebox door
We apologise for the recent silence but we can report the following and we hope to have more updates very soon, hopefully with photos over the coming weeks. Due diligence on the smokebox door has taken us longer than we anticipated but we are finally underway. The down-payment has been made with Keyte Smith Ltd…
Read MoreRichard Coleby
As fabrication finally gets underway we’ve been critically assessing the designs and pouring over reports of the engine’s performance whilst in service to identify flaws and investigate where and how to incorporate the best of modern practice while remaining as true as possible to the original design. To this end Ted Talbot, Peter Stanton and…
Read MoreThose ‘flimsy frames’?
2013? Hard to believe. We hope you are all well and wish you all the best for the coming year. We also hope to have some news for you in the coming weeks now that Christmas is out of the way. In the meantime we’d like to bring an article written by Ted Talbot for…
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