Love me Tender!
We are pleased to announce that we have now acquired a tender of our own. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our brilliant supporters whose generosity has made this possible.
This will be a full restoration project as it is in "ex-Barry" condition, never having been used in preservation.
Our first task will be to get the tender moved to our base on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway at Toddington then we can start our volunteers on the strip down prior to a full appraisal of what the rebuild will look like. This project will be run in tandem with our National Lottery Heritage Funded programme of volunteer training and development which is concentrating on the boiler overhaul - the tender project will ensure there is always a full range of suitable tasks for our volunteers whatever their stage of training.
As always with restoration projects there will be lots of opportunities to support us - we know already that at the very least we will need a new tank and there are a number of fittings that have been lost during the many years of storage - any help, physical or financial will be most welcome!
Further updates will be issued over the coming months - and we will have some pictures ib due course - watch this space.