The last "official" sales stand this year!

A couple of items of interest!

An artists impression of No.27 in the livery she will carry when restored by Matthew Cousins
(certified prints of this are available from Matthew or the Fenchurch Fund)

WSNG Exhibition 3rd & 4th November

Just a quick reminder that this weekend (3rd & 4th November) the West Sussex N gauge Group will be holding their Exhibition, and we will be in attendance with our sales and information stand. 

The show will be open on Saturday 3th November 2018 - from 10am until 5pm and on Sunday 4th November 2018 - from 10am until 4.00pm.

The address of the show is: The Angmering School, Greenwood Drive, Station Road, Angmering,
West Sussex, BN16 4HH

Despite being organised by the West Sussex N Gauge group the show will include all the popular gauges from N to 0 or possibly even bigger!

For further details of the exhibition go to the WSNG web site: http://www.wsng.co.uk/

Other News

Matt Holloway has added a few pictures of the frames and recent ancillary work to the Facebook page.  The work includes splitting the new frames to allow the mill scale to be removed from the three remaining faces of the frames and painting in bonder primer.  Sean Smeeth has been hard at work cleaning and painting the horn guides and other parts ready for fixing back onto the new frames.

Matt has reported that the cylinders are being machined as we speak and are likely to be delivered back to Sheffield Park towards the end of the year.  He has also said that we are on target to erect the frames (with temporary bolts) by the end of the year, allowing the riveting to commence when the weather improves next year.

How can you help?

To keep the project going and Matt & the Gang happy, we need your help and donations!

Thank you all for the donations you have made in the past and also for your continued support, and future donations.


We greatly value your support and interest in the restoration of the loco, and without your donations we could not continue the work we are doing. 

 

Please help us with a donation, to do so, please go to our BT MyDonate page https://mydonate.bt.com/events/27

or use the QR code below.

 

If you would like to contact us please use the following address:

thefenchurchfund@gmail.com

The Project is entirely self funded and relies on your donations and sales stand purchases

for the work to continue

Giants of Steam Weekend

Just a short report from the Giants of Steam Weekend

We had a sales and information stand on Platform 1 on the Saturday of Giants weekend, we took the decision not to have a stand on the Sunday after taking advice from Tomasz Schafernaker on the BBC, he was correct, there was drizzle and wind for most of the day.


We had a good day with plenty of interest from our visitors resulting in a happy treasurer!



The stand is behind the interested visitors!

Whilst there was no formal presence at the restoration area, there proved to be plenty of interest in what was going on and we had many comments of feed back.


Whilst to the casual observer not much seems to be happening there is plenty of changes going on in the villa and on the frames.

The horn apertures have now been ground so that both sides match,
the area of grinding has been given a protective coat of bonder primer to protect the surfaces

A close up of one of the horn apertures

Inside the villa, the hornguides are being worked on. this involves a thorough cleaning and painting of the castings and forgings as can be seen in the pictures.

One of the assemblies waiting to be cleaned and painted

After cleaning and painting, in the company of brake hanger brackets, buffer beam plates and other items

As you can see, there is actually plenty of work going on to make sure that it will be possible to start to erect the frames towards the end of the year, with a view to having a rolling chassis next year.


This work can only continue with your support and donations, Thank you all for the donations you have made in the past and also for your continued support, and future donations.


We greatly value your support and interest in the restoration of the loco, and without your donations we could not continue the work we are doing. 

 

If you would like to help us with a donation, please go to our BT MyDonate page https://mydonate.bt.com/events/27

or use the QR code below.

 

If you would like to contact us please use the following address:

thefenchurchfund@gmail.com

Thank you for your continued support and interest, it is much appreciated.

The Project is entirely self funded and relies on your donations and sales stand purchases for the work to continue