New Year, New Appeal Happy New Year from The 2857 Society. Today we are launching our overhaul appeal “Let’s Get 2857 Back On Track”. Having received quotes from 4 contractors for the bottom end overhaul of the locomotive, the[…]

2024 End of Year Update As 2024 comes to a close we want to thank all of our supporters for their support over the past year. We’ve been able to raise in excess of £10,000 towards the locomotives overhaul,[…]

Work on 2857 Continues We had another set of working days over the course of last week, to continue with work to remove 2857’s tubes. As stated previously this will allow us the opportunity to have a boiler inspector[…]

UpDATE ON THE TENDER HIRE TO THE EMF The 1st of October formally saw 2857’s Tender (T2355) handed over to the Erlestoke Manor Fund for a hire period of around 15 months. It has entered the paint shop at[…]

The SVR remained closed until August which meant that 2857 covered a very small fraction of its normal mileage in 2020. That said, the loco has worked virtually daily throughout August without putting a foot (a wheel?) wrong. In[…]

Over the winter the opportunity was taken to straighten up and tidy the injector steam pipes running down the back head so that they meet with the valves vertically, rather than in the cranked positions erroneously set at the[…]

In June some cracks in the copper firebox, which looked like old repairs, were welded and several rivets were replaced with patch screws. On the carriage heating it was decided to dispense with the ‘Sarco’ unit and to pursue[…]

By February, numerous complaints had come in on the vacuum brake. It was overhauled, resulting in it maintaining 25” vacuum at 5mph. A driving spring broke on a Saturday at the beginning of April but it was replaced and[…]

2857’s 100th birthday was celebrated on 2nd and 3rd June 2018. This involved 2857 running with all the operable wagons from the ‘813 Fund’ collection showing freight trains as they were, while a GB Railfreight class 66 diesel electric[…]

The intermediate overhaul was quite extensive in the end and included casting, machining and fitting new cylinder liners, a corresponding set of new pistons, overhauled piston rods, new valve spindles, new valve assemblies, all valve and piston rings replaced,[…]