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D8110 [20110]
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| A start on the oil change was made on Sunday 14th October.
She was drained down with the old oil going into 20118 (see below), a start
on the leak was made. By the end of Sunday one leak was found, it was a
holed pipe, made by rubbing against the floor where the pipe goes through
to the outside. The second leak was on the first joint after the filling
valve. This one was repacked with PTFE tape. All went well over the 21st/22nd
Oct with the loco and it's new oil. In addition the loco now carries two
dummy token catchers. After 20118's wheel slip relay failed, it was found
that D8110's relay was stuck. This has now been cleaned up and is now free
moving. All went well with the loco on all the shunt releases for santa
trains in Nov & Dec. plus the last two days of the Santa trains (22nd
& 23rd) were top and tail, due to the heavy bookings. Eight coaches
was required for the train. A strange vacuum fault occurred on the second
trip of the first day (Friday), but after a late start all went well. The
compressor oil needs changing again,a nice creamy mess came from the compressor
sump on the 31st Dec. It also looks as if we have a water leak from the
horn box over the cab, as the paint work in the cab between the two cab
windows is not looking very good and water is also found in the cupboard
under the cooker. With the end of year mileage for the loco at 578, plus
a mile or two more for shunting around the station. |
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[D8118] 20118
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By the end of Saturday 7th Oct the only outstanding bit
of painting was the Lub Oil fillers and drain points (which should be Salmon
Pink), Also on this date the cab floor was taken up only to find some more
welding to be done on a floor support by the cab doors and also a hole
in the base of the floor, all this put the coming out back by a week. A
new rubber seal was also put in place around the loco. This runs around
by the handrail. She did make it out of the shed in the afternoon of Saturday
14th and a start on the oil swap with 20ll0 was made the nextday. During
Sunday she was filled with coolant water only to find that the water pump
was still leaking (as before) this was the only leak found, next came the
oil swap. All this time the batteries were on charge with the onboard charger,
but it was not quite strong enough to bring them up. So it was left on
charge over night with a small 24v charger, doing three batteries at a
time. By the Wednesday all the batteries were charged, (so we thought)
but it would not start. Plan B, was to do a jump start from D8110. With
110 along side and a good set of jump leads (and a thick pair of rubber
gloves!) 118 fired up first time, and left to run until it shut down after
two and a hours. The cab gauge panels were refitted by this time, and with
air pressure up some small leaks were found and put right after the loco
had shut down, The cab was full of smoke and all the electric's were dead.
A quick look around could not find the fault, so as it was late in the
afternoon, it was left to the next morning. On Thursday the battery switch
was put in and out quick and a small plume of smoke came from a relay behind
the forward driving desk, by the A.W.S switch, it was one of the wheel
slip relays. This failing also made the control fuse blow, this was replaced
along with the relay, but it would not start because of the batteries were
down again. Now came Friday (booked to work it's first train on Saturday
!)and yet again a jump start was required, A try for power was made but
only one reverser was working, the second had to be hand operated. With
this overcome, she moved off slowly under power at 12.18 pm to the yard
signal and back. A bit later 110 was hooked up as a dead weight for a test
trip as far as Nursery Pool bridge, the power output was very poor. It
pushed 110 back up to the yard at less than walking pace on full power.
More jobs to do! Back in the yard she shut down no water in the header
tank, this was topped up but only about 15 mins had passed but she would
not start. The batteries (ex 110's) have passed there use by date, not
holding on to the amps. So a start was made on the load regulator, as this
was stuck and on the reverser. The load reg was freed up, but some oil
was lost in doing so. This will be replaced at a later date. On removing
the reverser it was found to be piston less. It was replaced with a spare,
with a piston in ! The axle box oil was topped up along with the traction
motor gears. This is like a black treacle which has to be heated up to
make it pour, not the best job to do. With all this done test trip No.2
with 110 now on the Totnes end. It's first run along the line but only
as far as Staverton, with full power restored and it changed to second
field divert as well. And yes, we went over Nursery Pool bridge one at
a time. All went well until the second crossing, she shut down again on
the Buckfastleigh side of the bridge and once more the header tank was
empty. So 110 pushed 118 back to shed. Each time she has shut down theirs
been no sign of water around any part of the loco. Now comes the weekend
"Everything Go'es", and yes it made it to Totnes with it's first train
for over five years. With 110 on the back as far as Staverton, then top
& tail Totnes to Staverton and back, then it lost it's water again.
But thanks to the eagle eyed G.M. for seeing that the water was coming
out of the overflow pipe from the header tank. After it was towed back
to shed the water by-pass valve was found to be stuck, this was replaced
with a working one and so on the Sunday off to Totnes same as Saturday.
On arriving st Totnes that was it, it shut down again. This now leaves
the radiators being blocked, or the water pump not working, Apart from
the coolant water and the batteries all seams to work well on the loco,
A look into the coolant fault on Saturday 11th Nov found the reason why.
First both radiators were flushed through, then the engine block.The water
flowed through both, so no blockages here. This only left the engine driven
water pump. This was then removed from the engine block and the trouble
was found, the shaft had sheered off next to the impeller. When the bit
was knocked out of the impeller it was found that a B.R. bodge job had
already been done at some time in the past, as what came out was a lump
of brazing! A replacement shaft is being sort. Whilst waiting for the new
shaft to arrive a start has been made on repainting inside the equipment
room (the nose end). With the season now over we have 24 miles on the clock. |
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D7612 [25262, 25901]
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| No change with the loco, still working, it was used to
shunt the two 2O's about for there oil change. It worked over the "Everything
Go'es" weekend with out fault. This should he it's last working for the
next year or so, as it will now come out of service for the coolant leak
to be seen to and the body side to be done, plus a lot of little jobs as
well. With the year over for the loco, we managed to clock up 605 miles
this season. The rest of the spares for the loco have now arrived on the
railway, being unloaded on Monday 11th Dec. The power unit came from 26032
which was cut up at M.C. Metals of Glasgow (now closed). 26032 was last
overhauled in January 1986. Their is a chance that the loco will come back
to life at the start of the new season.
Year 2000-Loco miles.
D8110 - 578 miles.
D7612 - 605 miles.
20118 - 24 miles.
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Class 09
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| No change from last time |
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Class 127
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The unit was put back as a three car set at the start
of October It ran for the owner on
Thursday 12th Oct, but the owners had left the battery
switches in on their last visit, so the back power car was flat. The front
power car just started, so the unit ran on two engines for the rest of
the day. The owners were down again on Sunday 22nd October. This time all
three engines were working along with most of the heaters, which see little
use. The unit has now been drained down for the winter. |
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Class 122 - 55000
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| Work continues in the small saloon, with the luggage
rack being cleaned and the seat frames getting a new coat of paint. The
floor panels have been renewed ready for the new lino to be laid some time
this winter. |
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Yorkshire
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| Back to work on the line, other wise no change. |
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Fowler
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| No change from last time. |
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Hunslet
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| No change from last time. |
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Drewry
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| Should arrive sometime in January, all being well |
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Stock
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MINK - No change.
CCT - No change.
SHOCK - No change
MINK (No.2) - Still awaiting it's rebuild.
BG - Up for sale. Say no more ! |
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Other
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| Keep the aluminium drink cans coming in. You may have
read in the AGM minutes that the class 25 is the next to get a new set
of batteries. As this loco will be out of service for quite some time and
the batteries now on 20118 are in such a bad state, it has been decided
that 118 will now get these batteries ready for next years workings. At
the moment we are close to half way in raising funds for the batteries |
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Dates for Diary (Diesels running)
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| To be announced |
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Working Weekends
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Saturdays & Sundays.
Mostly Sundays at the moment. If you turn up about between
09.30 and 10.00 someone will be around. But no guarantees on this. |
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Running Days
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| 2001 Not yet finalised |
