Various Projects – July 2022

Our engineers have had a wheely good time lately, working on wheel sets for us and others.
For ourselves, there was the culmination of a 10 year project to overhaul and modify the bogies from our carriages to improve the ride for our visitors. All 32 carriage bogies are now rebuilt and 30 are in use under our carriages.
For the Isle of Mann, we have been completing work both directly and indirectly. Directly we have been working on tram wheels for the Manx Electric Railway, including turning and re-profiling. Indirectly we have been subcontracted by Alan Keefe’s works for the re-tiring of pony truck wheels for the Isle of Mann Steam Railway.
We will also be overhauling & rebuilding some of the unique bogies that are in use on the Isle of Mann Steam Railway.
For the Talyllyn Railway, we completed works on the wheelsets from Loco No.2 which included work on the driving axles, profiling the wheels, work on the journals, the fitting of new crank pins, and resetting the eccentrics.