THE astonishing achievements of the all-volunteer, mostly retired, team at ‘Workshop X’in north Derbyshire were emphasised by publication in late December of people-hour figures compiled by de facto team leader, Martyn Ashworth.
Members of the team are currently maintaining two of the locos they restored, War Office Locomotive Trust’s ex-WDLR Hunslet 4-6-0T HE 1215/1916 No. 303 and Martyn’Ashworth’s Avonside 0-4-0T Ogwen (both at Apedale Valley Light Railway), restoring Baldwin 10-12-D 4-6-0T WDLR No. 779 (BLW 44657/1916) to steam and undertaking cosmetic restoration of 3ft gauge Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0ST 573/1900 Handy Man (both for Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum Trust), building a near-replica of Hunslet 0-6-4T Single-Fairlie Gowrie (The Gowrie Locomotive Trust) and restoring an ex-LNWR slate wagon for the Moseley Railway Trust (MRT).