The Gowrie Locomotive Trust 

Following the successful Hengist Open Day held at Diamond Group Services (formerly CTL Seal), the Gowrie Locomotive Trust CIO are pleased to announce that we have officially placed the order for the construction of the new boiler for Gowrie with Diamond Group Services. Our Treasurer & Secretary Marion Allen handing over the order to Andy England, Owner and Managing Director of Diamond Group Services The announcement represents a significant milestone in the ongoing project to

Cylinders The machining of the cylinder castings is now at a very advanced stage. The next part of this process will be the machining of the steamchest covers, together with their mating face on the main cylinder castings, with all the holes drilled and tapped as necessary to attach the covers to the main castings. This will be followed by the machining of the valve faces and the slide valves themselves. Since the above work has not yet started, it is obviously not possible t

In this update you will see that we are again concentrating on the ongoing machining of the cylinder castings, but we are also mentioning other parts that have been worked on recently. We start with the pattern for the handbrake column casting and the actual casting being machined. This now only requires the fixing holes drilling and the mating face where it sits up to the sidetank being formed for it to be finished. What follows is the machining of the bore for the piston ro

John Dunn is progressing well with the machining of the cylinders. What follows is a series of images showing the remaining work on the...

As mentioned in the last update, after being allowed to season in the workshop for almost a year, the cylinders were moved to John Dunn Engineering for machining to be carried out. Firstly, the castings needed to be set up on the borer table for them to be marked out, this can be seen in the accompanying illustrations. It has also been necessary to make suitable tooling and stops to make the machining operation easier. Also, because of the unusual shape of the castings, vario

The Hengist Locomotive Project hosted their annual open day on Saturday, April 13 2024, at CTL Seal LTD in Sheffield showing the two...

At the moment Stuart is concentrating on getting the trailing bogie to a suitable condition to go to the Hengist open day at CTL Seal on...