Coming out of the woods:
Although Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway’s Kerr Stuart 0-4-2ST Brazil class Premier seems to be in a sylvan setting, it was actually photographed from a position on Sittingbourne viaduct at a dog-leg close to a bridge over Gas Road. The location was permissible since it was taken on September 29 during a charter organised by Joey Evans.
JAMES WAITE
A BATCH of castings for use on the planned new-build Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Manning Wardle 2-6-2Ts Yeo and Exe (RM, October 2018) to be constructed for the revived Lynton & Barnstaple Railway were delivered to Ffestiniog Railway’s Boston Lodge works in September.
Produced by Peak Patterns Ltd in Sheffield, the components include driving wheels, front and rear frame stays, hornblocks, bogie frame stretchers, axleboxes and keeps, slide bar brackets and radius links for Joy valve gear. Machining will be undertaken at Boston Lodge, where machining of the cylinder castings (picture, RM July 2022), end covers and valve chests has now been completed.