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The R&ER Magazine The R&ER Magazine Number 216 March 2015 The Journal of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society Published quarterly by the Peter Hensman OBE The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society Limited The R&ER Magazine congratulates Peter Hensman, Chairman of the Board R&ER Member of the Heritage of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Company, on his being awarded the Railway Association Order of the British Empire for voluntary service to the rural economy in Magazine Cumbria, in the Queen’s birthday honours list, 2014. No 216 March 2015 Editorial Team: Keith Herbert, Di Chase, Opinions expressed by contributors and Bill Seddon, Mark Harrington, in editorial comment do not necessarily Editorial John Taylor reflect the collective views of the Society. Keith Herbert Editorial Designer: Julie Hutchinson Address for Magazine Correspondence: PRESS DEADLINE: Material for inclusion in The permanent way of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway seems, at times, Keith Herbert the next issue of the Magazine must anything but permanent. Though our line has existed on its fifteen-inch gauge 7 Dalegarth Cottages reach the editors not later than rails for a century, now more than ever in history the seven-mile stretch is Boot, Holmrook Thursday 16th April at noon. treated for defects and treated to improvements. This winter has seen the hotly Cumbria CA19 1TF Please send material earlier if possible. anticipated arrival of plastic sleepers in what must be described as a radical [email protected] move which could, in time, pay great dividends. The British Columbia Society The R&ER Magazine is always pleased to receive correspondence, photographs and articles for possible inclusion. of Model Engineers’ Burnaby Central Railway (in Vancouver, Canada) has Most nowadays arrive via our e-mail address, but postal contributions are just as welcome. used plastic sleepers on its seven-and-a-half-inch gauge line since 1994. BCSME Please write your name and address on the back of any prints, and give at least the date and location of each photograph where possible. We have scanning facilities for slides and negatives, and will endeavour to return any and RERPS member Bruce Wilson reports that, though some damaged units loaned photographic material. have necessarily been replaced, all 25,000 sleepers would have been changed again by now had they been made out of wood. While plastics appear a touch Society website: http://www.rerps.co.uk experimental in these isles, there is quite clearly a precedent for their use. Council Chairman: Sam Dixon, 15 Lyceum Close, Leighton, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 3YB. This, then, is an exciting time to be a part of the permanent way operation. Email: [email protected] David Moseley is typically thorough in describing departmental activities in his Hon. Secretary: Mungo Stacy, 34 Mayfield Road, Manchester M16 8EU. quarterly report on page 6. Email: [email protected] Plastic sleepers might, in my working lifetime, bring about a reduction in track Hon. Financial Secretary: Ian Leigh, 206B Crowfield House, North Row, Central Milton Keynes, renewals and maintenance (or so I might dream!), but our legacy – what our Buckinghamshire MK9 3LQ. Email: [email protected] successors have to celebrate in another hundred years’ time – will be the result Hon. Membership Secretary: Phil Taylor, 12 Wholehouse Road, Seascale, Cumbria CA20 1QY. of not just trackwork, but everything we do now, a sentiment echoed very Email: [email protected] (1-1299 and 2500-3999) strongly in Geoff Holland’s letter (page 34) in the last Magazine, with particular Assistant Membership Secretary: Jim Wilcock, ‘Porthlow’, Neston Road, Ness, Neston CH64 4AZ. reference to the motive power situation. The Preservation Society’s new-build Email: [email protected] (1300-2499) proposal appears to be advancing behind closed doors while, on the European Sales Officer: Position Vacant. scene, the Killesbergpark railway in Stuttgart has snapped up one of the available Magazine Distributor: Cumbria Mailing Services Ltd. Penrith, CA11 9FQ. Krauss 4-6-2s recently restored in Spain, leaving one less purchase option for the RERPS should it choose to go down that route. Despite ultimately declining to Heywood House Bookings: Mary Harding. Email: [email protected]. Tel: 01229 717080. make an offer for one of these Pacifics, the Preservation Society has, according Volunteers: Peter Mills. Email: [email protected] to the minutes of its latest Council meeting [which are available online from the General Manager: Trevor Stockton, R&ER Co. Ltd. Ravenglass, Cumbria, CA18 1SW. Tel: 01229 717171. Society’s website], approached the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway to see whether anything is saleable there. Is The Bug now higher on our shopping Front Cover: River Irt rounds Long Yocking Corner, bound for Ravenglass on 8th list than new parts for the Esk or Dundee?! Mungo Stacy moves to clarify the May 2014. Photo: David Mart position on Dundee at least (and at last) in his usual feature. 2 3 Di Chase’s Who’s Who feature available to us, the museum will have received its revamp and we celebrate one continues in this issue. Ahead hundred years as a fifteen-inch gauge railway. of going to press it was The workshops have been a long time coming but will be worth the wait, with necessary to tell her “There the large overhead crane, three roads and two pits; at thirty feet longer it will are no words to describe Peter serve the railway well for the future. van Zeller” – turn to page 38 to see whether she found any! The museum housed in the old Furness Railway waiting shelter has been a The Magazine has also been unique attraction now for over thirty-five years, telling the story of the railway, fortunate to receive some more its development and fascinating history. Although our story goes way back to photographs of Martin Willey, the 1870s, it is perhaps fitting that in our hundredth year we can look forward a seldom-captured personality to a 21st century museum. This fresh approach to telling the story of our railway around the railway, but one is the first phase of the project; the next phase will be the rolling stock display we are missing enormously. Tazzelwurm (left) and Springerle (right) area, hopefully to follow in the next couple of years. Hopefully a few of these will flank newcomer Santa María at the Any celebration on a heritage railway is another landmark, an achievement make it into print during the Killesbergbahn, 29th October 2014. sometimes against great odds, such as an engine restored that’s not run for many course of the year ahead. Photo: Tilo Hüneborg years, or an extension built to connect with the Big Railway. Our celebration Finally, The R&ER Magazine is given to understand that visiting locomotives will be to commemorate one hundred years of continuous operations. have been promised for August Bank Holiday weekend, when we celebrate From the early days of Bassett-Lowke, and gentlemen “preserving” a railway one hundred years of the fifteen-inch gauge Ratty. These will include Lydia in West Cumbria whilst the carnage of the First World War was unfolding, to from the Perrygrove Railway, one of the Sutton locos from Cleethorpes, and old the stone trains running through the Second World War, it is remarkable that favourite Bassett-Lowke Count Louis. I bid everyone thanks for contributions to somehow we never stopped. We may have been saved rather than preserved in the Magazine (please don’t stop now!); here’s wishing everyone a prosperous 1960, seamlessly moving on from one year to the next, starting up in 1961 much and happy 2015. as the previous season had finished, with improvements gathering pace in each subsequent year. News from Ravenglass What we cannot do, unfortunately, is run a heritage train using the old stock Trevor Stockton from that era; the frantic bid to keep the railway running during the period between the wars, resulting in the smallest engines getting scrapped and rebuilt and scrapped again, means there is little left. However, sister and brother As I type up these notes, we are able to look back on one of our most successful engines to Sans Pareil – Synolda and Count Louis – will be available to help Santa seasons. Thirty commercial trains run, fully booked; nineteen school recreate the special occasion of the running of the first fifteen-inch gauge train, trains, many carrying at least two school groups, and the Turntable Café has taking place during the August Bank Holiday weekend. provided some 650 Christmas dinners. The Santa experience is our longest- running and most popular event and is a credit to the staff and volunteers who Elsewhere the usual winter work is carrying on; the new crossover is going in work very hard at the end of a sometimes difficult season to make it so special outside the signal box (hopefully when you read this there will be trains running for so many people. over it!), and all the winter carriage maintenance from greasing to painting progresses. January has started with the ongoing construction of the workshop, Story Rail and Network Rail have taken over part of the car park in order to prepare for On the staff front we welcome Geoff Rinaldi, local to Seascale, joining Steve replacing the main line railway bridge, and our own track gang is replacing the Farish and Graeme King, as an Assistant Engineer. crossover in front of the signal box. Normally winter is quiet in Ravenglass, but We also welcome David Little to the post of Chief Executive for the group of not this year! companies, taking over the post vacated by Jim Walker’s retirement.
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