RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted May 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2023 Found a nice caravan and motorhome site for the weekend at Rowsley. We spent yesterday walking and today visited Peak Rail for the first time since August 2019. We have spent many happy times there in the past. Pete Waterman’s GWR Prairie was billed as running today earlier this week, but instead there was a change of plan and the Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns 0-4-0 Saddle Tank was on duty instead. Not seen this engine before so not disappointed. Since we last visited a few things have changed. Lights fitted down the station yard and what I suspect will be a water tower is being built at the end of the platform? The narrow gauge railway has really come on. For donkeys years this was a very short length of track. This has now expanded to run around the picnic area and the former side vehicle entrance now closed off. The old bandstand has now gone. I cannot recall if the signal box was there on our last visit? Lots of goods wagons etc still in the yard awaiting restoration. A good photo display of how Rowsley used to look in now housed in a former LMS carriage. Cheers, Ade. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted May 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2023 Heritage Shunters Trust at Rowsley is highly commended if you like smaller diesels 01-08 but their June gala has been postponed as it clashed with Peak Rail event. RS8 the yellow loco on the turntable is a Pete Briddon rebuild of formerly derelict ICI former quarry loco, derelict at Wirksworth, once a Peckett steam loco & preserved at Dinting after withdrawal. Dava 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted May 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2023 Thanks for the info on the RS8. My great uncle was caretaker at Dinting and sometimes, at the end of the day, he would shunt the exhibits back to bed with me also in the cab. I never liked the RS8 then (totally none prototypical to a young me) but I am pleased to see it now. Great days. Kev. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted May 21, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2023 Thanks for the info on RS8. I did not recognise it . Interesting. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted May 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 21, 2023 I was a teenage volunteer at Dinting and didn’t like RS8 either but the restoration from a derelict hulk at National Stone Centre is a great project, it could easily have been scrapped as a no-hoper. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted May 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2023 5553 has been down at Bodmin since March and is staying for most of the year I believe, at least until 5552 returns from overhaul. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 20 hours ago, Dava said: Heritage Shunters Trust at Rowsley is highly commended if you like smaller diesels 01-08 but their June gala has been postponed as it clashed with Peak Rail event. RS8 the yellow loco on the turntable is a Pete Briddon rebuild of formerly derelict ICI former quarry loco, derelict at Wirksworth, once a Peckett steam loco & preserved at Dinting after withdrawal. Dava I remember walking past RS8 many times when it was an apparently derelict hulk by the High Peak trail. It's been restored to really high standard, in what seems like a short space of time. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted June 18, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2023 We were up at Peak Rail again today as it was the Vintage Bus Rally. It was very busy. My friend Stuart liked the Newcastle bus as he hails from South Shields. Since we were there three weeks ago the concrete base for the new water tower is now in place. Also a new refurbished toilet block is now in place in the station yard. I have taken a couple more photos to show the new narrow gauge line. Motive power was again No15. Cheers, Ade. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted June 18, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2023 Must get there ones day. Looks loads to look at. Whose tender tank is it, do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Adrian Stevenson Posted June 19, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2023 10 hours ago, Bucoops said: Must get there ones day. Looks loads to look at. Whose tender tank is it, do you know? No I don’t know who owns it sorry. Cheers, Ade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MrTea Posted June 20, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20, 2023 (edited) I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that tender tank in a video from one of the model manufacturers recently. Possibly in the Accurascale Siphon G video? Edited June 20, 2023 by MrTea Not that video - that was shot at Quainton I think 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieR4489 Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 On 18/06/2023 at 20:53, Bucoops said: Whose tender tank is it, do you know? My guess is that it's from 60532 as I believe that loco has had a replacement tank during its most recent overhaul. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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