Ashover at the NRM

[class50clag]

All i have seen of this little ffestiniog railway engine is that its sat on a wagon in the diesel depot. Anyone know what will happen to it

 

[transportphoto]

A quick Google search reveals that it is there for a volunteer lead restoration.

TP

 

[60163tornado]

Yes its there for restoration to be used on there narrow gauge line.

Palmerston railfest, remember?????

 

[class50clag]

yeh i know its fezzies running line

 

[Railway chris]

Perfect for that line as well

 

[class50clag]

If only they would restore livingston thompson aswell

 

[Wyvern]

Why is it called "Ashover"?

 

[507 001]

Why is it called "Ashover"?

Ashover is a 50hp F.C. Hibberd “Planet″ 4wDM (4-wheeled Diesel Mechanical) locomotive (Builder′s number 3307 of 1948). It was originally supplied to the Ashover Light Railway which transports minerals from Ashover to Clay Cross in Derbyshire. It did not carry a name at that time. Ashover came to the FR in October 1981 from the East Anglian Transport Museum Society, Carlton Colville, Suffolk.[1] Ashover was commonly used as Boston Lodge works shunter, occasionally being used on Parks and Gardens works trains. It is currently out of service having suffered from a lack of attention to routine maintenance checks whilst it was away from Boston Lodge. As of November 2012 it is at the National Railway Museum, York, for overhaul.

http://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/Ashover


Restoring Livingston Thompson would be a non starter I'm afraid. Practically the whole loco is knackered. It needs new bogies and a new boiler for a start. It didnt cost much more to build a new loco (Earl of Merioneth) than it would have cost to rebuild LT.

In 1971, the locomotive was withdrawn as its boiler had reached the end of its life and was beyond economic repair. Plans to rebuild the loco to a more modern style had already been developed and it was proposed to scrap the bodywork and retain all the useful components, including the bogies, for reuse.

Appalled by the plan to destroy the last remaining Victorian-outline double Fairlie, a letter was published in the Ffestiniog Railway Magazine signed by forty staff and volunteers, who were tagged the 'Active 40' by the magazine's editor, Norman Gurley. A subsequent appeal raised sufficient money to manufacture a new boiler cradle (virtually all that was required from the carcass) and, thereby, preserve the last example of a Spooner Fairlie.

For several years the body, less its bogies which were needed for further service, languished at various locations on the FR, ending up at Glanypwll. Meanwhile a brand new locomotive, to bear the name Earl of Merioneth slowly took shape at Boston Lodge.

 

[class50clag]

Apparently the bogies on LT aren't power bogies.

 

[507 001]

Apparently the bogies on LT aren't power bogies.

They are power bogies, they were originally under Merddin Emrys. They're just worn out.

The wheels are from James Spooner