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The R&ER Magazine the R&ER Magazine The R&ER Magazine Number 213 June 2014 The Journal of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society Published quarterly by the Editorial The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Keith Herbert R&ER Preservation Society Limited Member of the Heritage There is still no workshop in evidence on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, Magazine Railway Association now many months since that devastating fire. As the preservation era dawned – within the living memory of many members – it was Muncaster Parish Council No 213 June 2014 throwing its weight behind the cause to save the line from its sticky end. In recent weeks, the very same has objected to the planning application for the Editorial Team: Keith Herbert, Di Chase, Opinions expressed by contributors and new workshop, owing to dissatisfaction with the choice of exterior cladding, Bill Seddon, Mark Harrington, in editorial comment do not necessarily on the side facing the Ratty Arms and main line railway. For some, this decision, reflect the collective views of the Society. John Taylor reached by a Council of five, will seem nothing short of incomprehensible, as the Editorial Designer: Julie Hutchinson railway struggles on. Others might sympathise with the desire for visual appeal in anything so much in the public eye within the Lake District National Park. Address for Magazine Correspondence: PRESS DEADLINE: Material for inclusion in General Manager Trevor Stockton and Society Secretary Mungo Stacy provide Keith Herbert the next issue of the Magazine must updates on the workshop in their respective regular features. 7 Dalegarth Cottages reach the editors not later than Boot, Holmrook Thursday 17th July at noon. The Editorial Team met at Easter for the first time in many years, and wishes to Cumbria CA19 1TF Please send material earlier if possible. remind the readership that all submissions for future issues of this publication [email protected] are very welcome, be they articles, photographs or correspondence. Have you a The R&ER Magazine is always pleased to receive correspondence, photographs and articles for possible inclusion. new idea for an article, or regular feature? Or perhaps an event to celebrate the Most nowadays arrive via our e-mail address, but postal contributions are just as welcome. Please write your name and address on the back of any prints, and give at least the date and location of each upcoming centenary [in 2015] of the fifteen inch gauge R&ER? Or maybe you’d photograph where possible. We have scanning facilities for slides and negatives, and will endeavour to return any just like to see that old photo, a snapshot of the railway from yesteryear, in print loaned photographic material. at last… The new editorial scanner has arrived (unfortunately it has relegated the Society website: http://www.rerps.co.uk editorial biscuit tin from a place atop the desk), which will make it considerably easier to treat non-electronic format photographs in future. Historical submissions, Council Chairman: Sam Dixon, 15 Lyceum Close, Leighton, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 3YB. from any era, are particularly welcome. Contact details for submissions are on Email: [email protected] page 2. Hon. Secretary: Mungo Stacy, 52 Old York Street, Hulme, Manchester M15 5TH. Email: [email protected] Having been spurred Hon. Financial Secretary: Ian Leigh, 206B Crowfield House, North Row, Central Milton Keynes, on by Council member Buckinghamshire MK9 3LQ. Email: [email protected] David Mosley’s Guest Editorial last time, Hon. Membership Secretary: Phil Taylor, 12, Wholehouse Road, Seascale, Cumbria CA20 1QY. other members of the Email: [email protected] (1-1299 and 2500-3999) editorial group are Assistant Membership Secretary: Jim Wilcock, ‘Porthlow’, Neston Road, Ness, Neston CH64 4AZ. likely to put pen to Email: [email protected] (1300-2499) paper for the Editorial Sales Officer: Tom Whitbread, R&ER Co. Ltd. Ravenglass, Cumbria CA19 1TF Email: [email protected] feature in the next Magazine Distributor: Cumbria Mailing Services Ltd. Penrith, CA11 9FQ. couple of issues. Heywood House Bookings: Mary Harding. Email: [email protected]. Tel: 01229 717080. Meanwhile, in this edition (on page 24), Volunteers: Peter Mills. Email: [email protected] Sam Dixon, Chairman General Manager: Trevor Stockton, R&ER Co. Ltd. Ravenglass, Cumbria, CA18 1SW. Tel: 01229 717171. of the Preservation Society Council, The Editors - Keith, Di, Mark, John and Bill - enjoy a Front Cover: Before...: Romney loco Green Goddess and River Mite double-head a introduces the work of rare get-together, aboard a ten-coach train on Good train under the tree canopy of Horsefalls, during the gala event of 2011. the Council (perhaps Friday, April 2014. Photo: Nicolette Vincer 2 Photo: Peter Mills 3 helping to run the Society, rather than to fill the pages of this magazine, is for rebuild, thanks to Dickie Rothery and various assistants. The improvements you!). are a credit to them. For the record, the reopening was carried out by Janet Dickinson, manager of the Turntable Café, at eleven o’clock on 8th April, just in With the hundredth birthday of the Ravenglass camping coaches Elmira and time for the Easter holidays! Maid of Kent already upon us (turn to page 31 for Gerald Elliff’s cherished memories of these), and the centenary of the La’al Ratty now hoving rapidly The play area at Dalegarth has been resurfaced; hopefully this will be now make into view, there remains much to celebrate on the railway. Quite how the latter it more robust, and stop muddy boots going into the café! occasion will be marked remains to be seen; perhaps with a visit from an iconic Many parts of the country, and other railways, have suffered badly this last winter; Romney engine, such as Black Prince, a recreation of the inaugural train, hauled we seem to have escaped the worst of it. This helped to give the railway some by Synolda, or simply with the re-opening of the workshop! encouraging trading figures over the winter and into the spring. Long may it Sadly, not all of the news can be good. The R&ER Magazine is sorry to record continue. By the time you read this, Bonnie Dundee will have been on display at the deaths of two volunteers, Keith Fantham and Norman Waddington. Trevor the Kendal Brewery Arts Centre, over the weekend of 17th and 18th May, to help Stockton and engineer Ian Page have been kind enough to write a few words promote the railway during the world première of the new Postman Pat film. about two men they knew well, tributes which will you find on page 14. The railway mourned the passing of another friend and supporter, in late March, May they rest in peace. with the death of Keith Fantham, a former seasonal staff member and long-time volunteer. He will be sadly missed. Our thoughts, at this sad time, are with Keith’s News from Ravenglass partner Fiona and his sister Marion. A service at Morecambe crematorium was well attended by railway personnel as well as friends and colleagues from his Trevor Stockton professional background. It is now twelve months on from the workshop fire; we patched ourselves up At the same time as Keith, another volunteer, Norman Waddington, passed and, with the help of so many, ran a successful season – now the challenge is to away suddenly, at the age of sixty-seven. Norman was one of the small band do it again. of engineering volunteers, and had been working behind the scenes for some time. Norman’s skills and experience will be missed, as will his ready wit and There is some light at the end of the tunnel; with the return to traffic ofLady humour. Our thoughts are with his family at this sad time. Fuller appreciations Wakefield and River Irt, our working fleet of locos has doubled in recent weeks. of both Keith and Norman appear elsewhere in this edition. Northern Rock’s boiler is away in Dorset being re-riveted, and is due back in early May; the driving wheels are being turned up off site. The push will be to try and reassemble the engine for the Whit bank holiday. Perkins is in the middle of a well-deserved overhaul, hopefully to return for the high summer service. River Esk’s overhaul remains the biggest outstanding mechanical challenge. It is expected to start work on rebuilding the engineering workshop on Monday 19th May; this process will last approximately twenty weeks and will, no doubt, cause some disruption during the operating season, a new building and facilities cannot come soon enough. The finished building will, it is anticipated, be longer and wider, in an attempt to set ourselves up for future challenges. We could not return to the old, cramped layout, as legislation will dictate that the machinery will need to be set out to current standards. Working areas for various projects need to be considered. The possibility of outside contract work that we can deliver professionally and on time, and future apprenticeships, etc., will only come about if we can demonstrate that we have a workshop fit for the twenty-first century. Northern Rock coasts out of Mill Wood, for Ravenglass, in 2011. The ladies’ toilets at Ravenglass are now open following a winter internal Photo: Eliot Andersen 4 5 Permanent Way Notes The rails themselves are a mixture of ages – some from the late seventies, up to the late nineties, as well as the pair of new rails which date from 2004, the last David Moseley year of rails being rolled at Workington. When the last Notes were written, the track had been lifted on the Marsh and The fifteen lengths closest to Ravenglass, at the foot of Barrow Bank, are laid John Wilson was levelling the old track bed and improving the drainage with on pandrol plates on Jarrah sleepers, whilst the rest is on Brazilian hardwood his tractor.
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