|
D8110 [20110] |
| A start on the oil change was made on Sunday 14th
October. She was drained down with the old oil going into 20118 (see
below), a start on the leak was made. By the end of Sunday one leak was
found, it was a holed pipe, made by rubbing against the floor where the
pipe goes through to the outside. The second leak was on the first joint
after the filling valve. This one was repacked with PTFE tape. All went
well over the 21st/22nd Oct. with the loco and it's new oil. In addition
the loco now carries two dummy token catchers. After 20118's wheel slip
relay failed, it was found that D8110's relay was stuck. This has now been
cleaned up and is now free moving. All went well with the loco on all the
shunt releases for santa trains in Nov. & Dec. plus the last two days
of the Santa trains (22nd & 23rd) were top and tail, due to the heavy
bookings. Eight coaches was required for the train. A strange vacuum fault
occurred on the second trip of the first day (Friday), but after a late
start all went well. The compressor oil needs changing again, a nice
creamy mess came from the compressor sump on the 31st Dec. It also looks
as if we have a water leak from the horn box over the cab, as the paint
work in the cab between the two cab windows is not looking very good and
water is also found in the cupboard under the cooker. With the end of year
mileage for the loco at 578, plus a mile or two more for shunting around
the station. |
|
[D8118] 20118 |
By the end of Saturday 7th Oct. the only outstanding
bit of painting was the Lub Oil fillers and drain points (which should be
Salmon Pink), Also on this date the cab floor was taken up only to find
some more welding to be done on a floor support by the cab doors and also
a hole in the base of the floor, all this put the coming out back by a
week. A new rubber seal was also put in place around the loco. This runs
around by the handrail. She did make it out of the shed in the afternoon
of Saturday 14th and a start on the oil swap with 20110 was made the next
day. During Sunday she was filled with coolant water only to find that the
water pump was still leaking (as before) this was the only leak found,
next came the oil swap. All this time the batteries were on charge with
the onboard charger, but it was not quite strong enough to bring them up.
So it was left on charge over night with a small 24v charger, doing three
batteries at a time. By the Wednesday all the batteries were charged, (so
we thought) but it would not start. Plan B, was to do a jump start from
D8110. With 110 along side and a good set of jump leads (and a thick pair
of rubber gloves!) 118 fired up first time, and left to run until it shut
down after two and a hours. The cab gauge panels were refitted by this
time, and with air pressure up some small leaks were found and put right
after the loco had shut down, The cab was full of smoke and all the
electric's were dead. A quick look around could not find the fault, so as
it was late in the afternoon, it was left to the next morning. On Thursday
the battery switch was put in and out quick and a small plume of smoke
came from a relay behind the forward driving desk, by the A.W.S switch, it
was one of the wheel slip relays. This failing also made the control fuse
blow, this was replaced along with the relay, but it would not start
because of the batteries were down again. Now came Friday (booked to work
it's first train on Saturday !)and yet again a jump start was required, A
try for power was made but only one reverser was working, the second had
to be hand operated. With this overcome, she moved off slowly under power
at 12.18 pm to the yard signal and back. A bit later 110 was hooked up as
a dead weight for a test trip as far as Nursery Pool bridge, the power
output was very poor. It pushed 110 back up to the yard at less than
walking pace on full power. More jobs to do! Back in the yard she shut
down no water in the header tank, this was topped up but only about 15
mins. had passed but she would not start. The batteries (ex 110's) have
passed there use by date, not holding on to the amps. So a start was made
on the load regulator, as this was stuck and on the reverser. The load
reg. was freed up, but some oil was lost in doing so. This will be
replaced at a later date. On removing the reverser it was found to be
piston less. It was replaced with a spare, with a piston in ! The axle box
oil was topped up along with the traction motor gears. This is like a
black treacle which has to be heated up to make it pour, not the best job
to do. With all this done test trip No.2 with 110 now on the Totnes end.
It's first run along the line but only as far as Staverton, with full
power restored and it changed to second field divert as well. And yes, we
went over Nursery Pool bridge one at a time. All went well until the
second crossing, she shut down again on the Buckfastleigh side of the
bridge and once more the header tank was empty. So 110 pushed 118 back to
shed. Each time she has shut down theirs been no sign of water around any
part of the loco. Now comes the weekend "Everything Goes", and yes it made
it to Totnes with it's first train for over five years. With 110 on the
back as far as Staverton, then top & tail Totnes to Staverton and
back, then it lost it's water again. But thanks to the eagle eyed G.M. for
seeing that the water was coming out of the overflow pipe from the header
tank. After it was towed back to shed the water by-pass valve was found to
be stuck, this was replaced with a working one and so on the Sunday off to
Totnes same as Saturday. On arriving st Totnes that was it, it shut down
again. This now leaves the radiators being blocked, or the water pump not
working, Apart from the coolant water and the batteries all seams to work
well on the loco, A look into the coolant fault on Saturday 11th Nov.
found the reason why. First both radiators were flushed through, then the
engine block. The water flowed through both, so no blockages here. This
only left the engine driven water pump. This was then removed from the
engine block and the trouble was found, the shaft had sheered off next to
the impeller. When the bit was knocked out of the impeller it was found
that a B.R. bodge job had already been done at some time in the past, as
what came out was a lump of brazing! A replacement shaft is being sort.
Whilst waiting for the new shaft to arrive a start has been made on
repainting inside the equipment room (the nose end). With the season now
over we have 24 miles on the clock. |
|
D7612 [25262, 25901] |
| No change with the loco, still working, it was used to
shunt the two 2O's about for there oil change. It worked over the
"Everything Goes" weekend with out fault. This should he it's last working
for the next year or so, as it will now come out of service for the
coolant leak to be seen to and the body side to be done, plus a lot of
little jobs as well. With the year over for the loco, we managed to clock
up 605 miles this season. The rest of the spares for the loco have now
arrived on the railway, being unloaded on Monday 11th Dec. The power unit
came from 26032 which was cut up at M.C. Metals of Glasgow (now closed).
26032 was last overhauled in January 1986. Their is a chance that the loco
will come back to life at the start of the new season.
Year 2000-Loco miles.
D8110 - 578 miles.
D7612 - 605
miles.
20118 - 24 miles.
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|
Class 09 |
| No change from last time |
|
Class 127 |
The unit was put back as a three car set at the start of
October It ran for the owner on
Thursday 12th
Oct., but the owners had left the battery switches in on their last visit,
so the back power car was flat. The front power car just started, so the
unit ran on two engines for the rest of the day. The owners were down
again on Sunday 22nd October. This time all three engines were working
along with most of the heaters, which see little use. The unit has now
been drained down for the winter. |
|
Class 122 -
55000 |
| Work continues in the small saloon, with the luggage
rack being cleaned and the seat frames getting a new coat of paint. The
floor panels have been renewed ready for the new lino to be laid some time
this winter. |
|
Yorkshire |
| Back to work on the line, other wise no
change. |
|
Fowler |
| No change from last time. |
|
Hunslet |
| No change from last time. |
|
Drewry |
| Should arrive sometime in January, all being
well |
|
Stock |
MINK - No change.
CCT - No
change.
SHOCK - No change
MINK (No.2) - Still awaiting it's rebuild.
BG - Up for sale. Say no more ! |
|
Other |
| Keep the aluminium drink cans coming in. You may have
read in the AGM minutes that the class 25 is the next to get a new set of
batteries. As this loco will be out of service for quite some time and the
batteries now on 20118 are in such a bad state, it has been decided that
118 will now get these batteries ready for next years workings. At the
moment we are close to half way in raising funds for the
batteries |
|
Dates for Diary (Diesels
running) |
| To be announced |
|
Working Weekends |
Saturdays & Sundays.
Mostly
Sundays at the moment. If you turn up about between 09.30 and 10.00
someone will be around. But no guarantees on this. |
|
Running Days |
| 2001 Not yet
finalised |
