AS reported last month, ex-Renishaw Sugar Estates Avonside 0-4-0T 1986/1926 Renishaw No. 2 is now at Apedale Valley Light Railway following its purchase by a Moseley Railway Trust member. Pictured on July 10 the message chalked on the boiler says, “For Sale. Good cond[ition] One Granny owner Needs new whistle”!
Subsequent stripping down included lifting the boiler on July 24.
One encouraging discovery is that the wheels are in surprisingly good condition and look as if new tyres were fitted shortly before the loco was withdrawn.
PETER NICHOLSON
THE Hibberd 4wDM locomotive and small bogie carriage, supplied as a pair in 1937 (Hibberd works Nos. 2027 and 2028) to operate the 3ft gauge Queens Pier Tramway in Ramsey, Isle of Man, returned to a 150 yard section of the pier on July 19. Latterly displayed in Jurby Transport Museum, the loco and coach visited the pier as static exhibits for the July 22 official reopening, by Isle of Man’s Governor General, of the first section of the pier to be restored.