Owners and operators of D2246, D6737 and D402

Updates

D6737 crosses Nursery Pool bridge 7 November 2008. Photo courtesy Phil Seymour

2 March 2010

The Driver Experience Days page has been updated to reflect bookings received. Already D6737's day out in June is fully booked with only three places remaining for D7612's outing in April. However, we have been notified by our SDDT friends that should D7612 not be returned to traffic in time following winter maintenance, that its place on the April day will be taken by one the SDDT 20s.

Works Update: 28 February 2010

Further progress has been made on D2246. Following cleaning and painting of the main engine block, this weekend saw the exhaust, air inlet manifolds and engine air intake filters re-fitted. The filters have been cleaned and new oil added to each of the six individual filters. Elsewhere inside the engine compartment a number of fuel and lubricating oil pipes were painted into their correct colours, and a start made on painting some of the electrical conduits.

Externally work took place on both the front and rear buffer beams, both of which have been taken back to bare metal. This task was made much easier thanks to the loan of the Worcester Locomotive Society’s compressor and needle gun (so our thanks to them). Progress was such that by the end of Sunday the rear buffer beam had received its first coat of primer.

A small distraction during the Sunday was the appearance of an O gauge model 04. This has been purchased by a Society member and is due to be repainted and numbered D2246 in due course - could it be any other number?!.

Some progress has also been made with repairs to D6737 this past week. Following the failure of the radiator fan during the November, the various component parts of the fan drive were stripped down for assessment. The failure was traced to a defective coil in the fan clutch and this has been sent off for contract repairs. The refurbished components should return to Devon in about six weeks time, where upon they will be re-fitted to the loco allowing it to return to traffic by the start of May.

Further work was also undertaken inside the PLOG shed on Sunday. The Society has recently acquired a number of light fittings, and following overhaul these are being installed inside the shed to further improve working conditions.

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