Just a very brief update to let you know that the K1's boiler lift was completed without any significant problems on Wednesday. After setting up, the lift commenced at 11:00 and the job was completed and the crane ready to leave the depot by 13:00.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2018 16:39
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At the Special General Meeting on Friday night, 44 members were present, thereby more than constituting the necessary quorum, and the motion "to approve expenditure of up to £75,000, including contingencies, on extending the K1's mainline certification for a further 3 years", was approved by a large majority.
Last Updated on Monday, 22 October 2018 11:12
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Hopetown Works is usually open for the public to visit between 11:00 and 15:00 on the third Saturday of each month. Please check the What's on menu item for details.
Whilst a full train of NELPG members and guests were eating their starters, Vice President Maurice Burns took this set of photographs of the train at Goathland.
We had a major step forward on Thursday when Andrew Goodman and RSS lifted the locomotive chassis and the wheels were rolled out. See pictures by Peter Giroux – there’s 58 good photos in the collection.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 November 2018 22:38
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These take place at 19:30, usually on the second Friday of the month between September and May. Meetings now take place in Darlington Club and Institute in Northgate; see the What's on menu item for details.
Last Updated on Sunday, 03 September 2017 08:23
The NELPG exists to foster interest in, and to preserve examples of, steam locomotives, rolling stock and other items of railway interest connected with the North East of England.