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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:00 GMT, lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)
wrote:

> Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
> now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
> and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
> hauling a load of Mk I's?

It's at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the Great
Western main line from London Paddington to Swindon and Bristol.  I've
seen photos in rail magazines that showed it in apparently good cosmetic
condition but with a covering of (brown?) dust from the mining area it
came from.  

Didcot Railway Centre is owned by the Great Western Society.

I have no idea about the timing of Pendennis Castle's restoration,
sorry.

-- 
Tony Polson, North Yorkshire, UK

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Tony Polson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:00 GMT, lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)
> wrote:
> 
> > Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
> > now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
> > and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
> > hauling a load of Mk I's?
> 
> It's at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the Great
> Western main line from London Paddington to Swindon and Bristol.  I've
> seen photos in rail magazines that showed it in apparently good cosmetic
> condition but with a covering of (brown?) dust from the mining area it
> came from.
> 
> Didcot Railway Centre is owned by the Great Western Society.
> 
> I have no idea about the timing of Pendennis Castle's restoration,
> sorry.
> 
> --
> Tony Polson, North Yorkshire, UK


I heard 2003 as it will be 80 1then!


Simon Greenaway
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Brown Family <lbrown2@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:39c0a8b9.14258880@24.192.1.17...
> Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
> now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
> and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
> hauling a load of Mk I's?
>
The loco should have been scraped where it stood. IMO it was absolutely
wrong to provide lottery money to bring back yet another Castle, especially
when they refused the SVR enough money to build a proper carriage shed
and forced them to settle for the monstrosity at Kidderminster.
;
Mike Stone

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:00:35 +0100, "Les Gilpin"
<l.gilpin@btinternet.com> wrote:

>>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:00 GMT, lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)
>>wrote:

>>> Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
>>> now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
>>> and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
>>> hauling a load of Mk I's?

>>It's at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the Great
>>Western main line from London Paddington to Swindon and Bristol.  I've
>>seen photos in rail magazines that showed it in apparently good cosmetic
>>condition but with a covering of (brown?) dust from the mining area it
>>came from.

>Looked pretty clean when I saw it in august - still no connecting rods then
>tho - good consition otherwise

If I recall the article in 'Heritage Railway' magazine correctly, the
plan is to keep the loco in 'Australian' condition for a while just to
show people how it looked while it was 'down under'. A full
restoration to UK-approved main-line condition is on the way, but this
will cost huge sums and take two/three years.

As an aside, I have feeling that Pendennis might have been the last
steam loco to work over the Cheltenham - Stratford line (before it
became the Glos-Warks Railway). The loco ran under its own power to
Avonmouth docks to be shipped out of the country & I recall the
Gloucester Echo had a photo (I remember this because as a young
railway fan I cut the photo out!) of the loco running through the
remains of Cheltenham Malvern Road station on this final journey.

Given this, if I was the GWR, I'd be inclined to approach the GWS at
Didcot and see about booking Pendennis for a 'homecoming' visit!


--
Michael Johnson
uncle@globalnet.co.uk

In article <39c256a7_3@news1.vip.uk.com>,
   mastone1 <mastone1@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote:

> Brown Family <lbrown2@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:39c0a8b9.14258880@24.192.1.17...
> > Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
> > now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
> > and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
> > hauling a load of Mk I's?
> >
> The loco should have been scraped where it stood....... 
                            
To remove all the Australian ore dust and grime, and show it in all its
glory, presumably ?

David

Tony Polson wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:00 GMT, lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)
>wrote:
>
>> Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
>> now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
>> and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
>> hauling a load of Mk I's?
>
>It's at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the Great
>Western main line from London Paddington to Swindon and Bristol.  I've
>seen photos in rail magazines that showed it in apparently good cosmetic
>condition but with a covering of (brown?) dust from the mining area it
>came from.
>

Looked pretty clean when I saw it in august - still no connecting rods then
tho - good consition otherwise

Les G
Cardiff