Steam fans invited to indulge their passion at Tyesley Loco Works

STEAM fans get the chance to indulge themselves this weekend when the Tyseley Locomotive Works once again stages another of its open days.

Taking place on Saturday and Sunday, visitors will be able to sample all of the usual train rides on the museum’s demonstration line, together with turntable demonstrations, and locomotive cavalcades.

Visitors will also be able to meet and talk with members of the team from the Locomotive Works and its fellow organisation, Vintage Trains, while they will also be able to view current restoration work, which is being undertaken on a wide variety of projects inside the works’ new workshop facility.

The event, between 10am-5pm, will also give people the opportunity to catch up with the latest progress on the works’ comprehensive overhaul of its flagship locomotive, 7029 ‘Clun Castle’. The eventual aim of the restoration is to see the loco returned to the main line.

Locos on display will also include:
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (in steam)
4965 Rood Ashton Hall (in steam)
2885 – 28xx Class (under overhaul)
9600 & 7752(L94) – Panniers (both in steam)
BR 71000 Duke of Gloucester (under overhaul)
LMS 6201 Princess Elizabeth (in steam)
LMS 45593 Kolhapur
LMS 45596 Bahamas (under overhaul)
Peckett No1
Cadbury No1
USA S160

For more information, visit the Tyseley Locomotive Works website: http://www.tyseleylocoworks.co.uk/tlw/