News Archive July-December 2009

South Devon Diesel Traction, SDDT

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11th Nov 09

20 110.
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20 110 Arrived back from the Spa Valley Railway on October 29th, just in time for our November "Gronkaid" Diesel Gala.
Photos courtesy and © Baz Hambly & Myself.




8th Sept 09

20 118.
20 118.
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20 118 has finally been outshopped in a beautiful new coat of raifreight grey! A big THANKYOU to everybody who worked on it. It is a credit to you all, especially Peter who put in hours and hours.
Photos courtesy and © Myself and Pete Burrow.






19th Aug 09

20 118.

20 118 primering up nicely!
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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Canary Yellow well on it's way!
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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The primering has gone well and canary yellow paint has started to appear along with a bit of railfreight grey!









19th Aug 09

20 110.

20 110 at Groombridge,
Courtesy & © J.Keohane

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20 110 at Tunbridge Wells West
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

20 110.

20 110 at Groombridge
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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20 110 at Groombridge
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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20 110 at Tunbridge Wells West
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

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33 063 at Tunbridge Wells West
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

20 110.

20 110 at tunbridge Wells West
Courtesy & © P.Burrow

SPA VALLEY GALA:

20 110 was admired and performed faultlessly at the Spa Valley Railway's August Diesel Gala, which although I wasn't able to attend, I'm told was a well organised and successful event. Certainly a lot of happy people came back from it, so congratulations to the South East Loco group and Spa Valley Lads and Lasses!















31st July 09

20 118.

Baz, Keith, Phil, Neil & Pete start preparing 20 118 for the repaint

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Jen hard at work!

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You don't really have to rub down the vacuum pipe Robin!

20 118:

The time has come around again to repaint 20 118. A bit of welding had to be done around the cab and a lot of paint preparation is underway. We've chosen to do the same livery again as this is how most people remember this particular loco from it's BR days and it looks quite pretty with it's Saltburn by the Sea nameplates and it's Thornaby embellishments!
Thanks to our friends from Plymouth it's also having a new cab floor.