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31463 Another 2 months on, whats been happening, well at the beginning of May I W Locomotive Fabrication Limited came out to do the remaining welding work on cab 1 that wasn’t accessible before and fit the new headcode box cover. Plus we found some extra snags, there was a weld required on a window… Read More
Lets start getting 31463 dressed again. April and May has seen 31463 repaint progress greatly, starting with body sides they’ve both receive 2 coats of primer paint and is a nice shade of red. The removed nose cover from no. 1 has also been painted in primer and then internally painted into gloss. During the… Read More
31463 is naked. 31463 began the first February weekend working party in a different shed to allow repairs during the week to the 107 dmu so gave us a chance to take a look at the bodywork in natural daylight. All the opening grills have been removed from the loco, cleaned, prepared for paint and… Read More
31463 body work continues to be the focus of our work at the moment using the needle gun on the body to get the bulk of the paint off and then follow with a sander before we start to paint. ‘A’ body side is almost ready to be painted. When the temperature rises it will… Read More
Since the load banking of 31463 work has been continuing at Ruddington so here is a roundup of what we’ve been up to. Remediation work following load bank testing, the fault light was found not to be going bright during tests. A day’s worth of testing with the electrical schematic helped trace a couple of… Read More
The big news this month is 31463 has been on the load bank. In the weeks leading up to this various checks, cleaning and preparation work were made on various systems on the loco to make sure everything would go smoothly. On 28th September the load bank was brought in and connected to the loco… Read More
The restoration of 31463 continues even in this heat. Since our last update, the engine room has received its second coat of gloss. ‘A’ side engine room door has been needle gunned as can be seen in the photo the top half is in gloss with the lower in primer, this is because we have… Read More
Sooo, a few things to update you all with on 31463. A lot of effort recently has been getting the brakes on 31463 working properly. After a number of years of inactivity, things unsurprisingly didn’t work too well. After much effort to make the loco airtight, servicing various faulty valves and changing others for overhauled… Read More
Welcome to the latest T1LC update, first of all apolgoies for no update in May. We had a change freeze in place on the website while it was transferred between hosts so first of all thank you to our orginal host for helping us getting setup and for all there support over the years. Thank… Read More
31463 31463 has had some more running tests and the results are good. Since the roof section went on the boiler / radiator room we were aware that the fan very slightly brushes the inside of the fan cowling. At the moment with engine testing the radiators don’t get hot enough the fan kicks in… Read More