17th December 2024 - A report and photos covering the planned working party together with that of a second working party the following weekend.
12th December 2014 - Updated the dates for the January & February working parties.
23rd November 2024 - An update and photos for the November working party together with the working party dates for the first three months of 2025
11th October 2024 - Main October working party notes and photo's added.
19th September 2024 - This update covers 134's first movement under steam on the 11th September, the working party the previous weekend and 134's appearance at the Superpower event the following weekend. All covered with numerous photos in the Gallery.
17th August 2024 - News about 134's boiler test and an update and pictures for the August working party.
27th July 2024 - Added the now more familiar monthly update including photos to cover the bulk of July.
19th June 2023 - June update added together with the usual photos.
17th June 2024 - Added link on the
homepage to the Company's latest Moving Pictures video that covers
progress on №134. Also added the same video toether with a brief update
to the Latest News page.
23rd May 2024 - An overall update
and photos for May including a working
week, the main working party as well as a few other odd days.
20th April 2024 - Added
the April report
and photos
21st March 2024 -
An update
and photos covering the March working
party and some activity the following week. Also archived the 2023
woring party reports to their own
page
4th March 2024 - due to
personal cirmstances, a very belated and brief update
and photos covering the February working
part and following week's work
29th January 2024 - A
belated update following the main January working party: Report
and Photos
16th January 2024 - a few
more pictures and text added to the previous update. And a
correction to the May working party date
15th January 2024 - the report
and photos from an initial week of
working on 134.
5th January 2024 - Some
additional working
party dates added to take us to mid year.
12th December 2023 - The
December working party report and Gallery section have been added,
together with some working party dates for between Christmas and the
New Year.
21st November 2023 - A summary
of progress with photos since the last working party,
including that of the November working party.
19th October 2023 - Details
of the October working party with the usual photos. Added some working party dates
covering the first three months of 2024.
12th October 2023 - Added
an update covering the progress from various weekend's of
working on the loco during September (Notes
and photos).
8th September 2023 - added
the last few working
party dates until the end of the year.
21st August 2023 - Added
the notes
and photos from the full August working
party.
16th August 2023 - Added
two new sales items to the homepage and the link to the Society's
website to buy them.
15th August 2023 - A summary
has been put together, along with some photos,15th August15th August
following numerous days spent working on 134 since the July
working party. Brought the News and Summary
of Progress pages up to date
19th July 2023 - An update
for the July working party, with photos, and also the June working
party & photos that never quite made it to
being uploaded here so apoligies for that
31st May 2023 -
A (very) belated text and photo update covering the May main
working party
16th May 2023 - Added some
notes
and photos covering various intermediate
working party days following the main April working party and the
forthcoming May working party.
5th April 2023 - An update
and photos
from the first working party to be held in April. Also tided up the
Working Party Reports page to move all the 2022 reports to their own page.
15th March 2023 - The
usual text
and photo update for the March working
party.
14th February 2023 - Added
an update to the working party reports and Gallery covering the main February
working party and a smaller one the weekend before. Added more working
party dates to the diary
4th February 2023 - Added
a video (from the FFWHR's YouTube channel) onto the boiler
page about the boiler's arrival.
2nd/3rd
February 2023 - several 'housekeeping' updates. A modification to the
menu on each page after an 'animation' feature of it decided to stop
functioning! Currected some non functioning links on a couple of page
menus and updated the YouTube embedded links after they also decided to
stop working.
27th January 2023 - Added details
and some photos following the first of the
originally scheduled working parties for 2023. Also some added extra dates
for working party days between the main working parties.
24th January 2023 - Added
a few more photos to the first January working party report
and Gallery
19th January 2023 - Added
details of a mini working party together with some photos following the delivery of the
boiler.
17th January 2023 - Added
an update to the Boiler page
regarding its arrival at Dinas, together with some photos in the
relevant Gallery page.
16th January 2023 - Added
a news
update about the delivery of the boiler.
3rd January 2023 - Added details
from the working party held between Christmas and the New Year. Some
photos from the working party are here.
23rd November 2022 - Added
the November working party notes and photos and updated the boiler
and summary of progress to date sections
following the boilers successful steam test earlier
in November.
27th October 2022 - Added
some new working party dates for the first few months of
2023 together with some details about the new cab for №134
added as a post working party note.
26th October 2022 - Added
the October 2022 woring party notes and photos
3rd October 2022 - the date
for the October working party has been revised to the 22nd &
23rd.
21st September 2022- The
September working party report and photos are now available.
3rd September 2022 - Added
a link to the 134 group's merchandise onto the homepage together with
other updates/changes there.
23rd August 2022 - The report
for the August working party, and the usual selection of photos.
(Please note that due to some coding changes in the gallery album
compiling software that if the album does not load correctly please
delete your stored cache)
2nd August 2022 - Added
some more working
party dates to take us up to the end of the year.
24th July 2022 - Added a
video to the homepage of 134's whistle fitted to NGG16 No130.
22nd July 2022 - Another
rather belated update: the July working party notes
and photos and two updated boiler photos.
23rd June 2022 - Finally,
and rather
belatedly due to the weather being very warm to be spending time in
front of a screen, we have the report and photos from the June working party.
24th May 2022 - added
the notes
and photos for the second May working
party.
12th May 2022 - added
(somewhat belatedly) the May working party notes
and photos, together with some updated
boiler photos.
27th April 2022 - Some
more working party dates added
24th March 2022 - added
the March working part report that also gives details of
some of the homeworking projects that are dating place. Working party
photos are in the Gallery
22nd February 2022 - Details
of the February working party. Pictures available here.
25th January 2022 - details
and photos of the first working party of
2022 - that also includes reference to a few days work on the loco at
the end 2021.
15th December 2021 - report
detailing two working parties held in December together with photos
from the second and some other items of interest.
24th November 2021 -
November working party update and photos.
21st October 2021 - Added
the October working party report and photos
27th September 2021 -
Added some news
items and photos about
progress on the boiler, motion and brake valve. Also added some more working
party dates up the February 2022
21st September 2021 -
September's working party notes & photos together with a few textual
updates elsewhere.
18th August 2021 -
August's working party notes & photos are now there and these
include a comment about the frames now being back in the loco shed.
23rd July 2021 - Added
some more working party dates so as we're planning 3 months
ahead.
21st July 2021 - The July working
party report added as well as the usual photos.
20th
July 2021 - A general but slight revamp to the look of the site, and
the Gallery. The Gallery has also had a bit of a cull in terms of
photos of a similar view in order to reduce it's size a bit. Please
note: if you get strange effects to some of the pages or they
don't load correctly please try clearing your browser's cache
.
22nd June 2021 - Details
from the June working
party together with the usual photos.
4th June 2021 - Added an
announcement from the group in the Latest
News section as regards progress on the boiler, together with
some photos.
17th May 2021 -
The May working party notes and some photos have been added as well as
the next three dates for the next three working
parties.
4th May 2021 - More
tidying up of contact details on the site and an update to the summary
of progress page.
18th January 2021 - Added
an update in News about the project and our
future plans, including working parties, as regards the
Covid-19 outbreak.
20th March 2020 - Added an
'Update' page for the Covid-19
virus and its effect on the project.
18th March 2020 - An
update about the March working party that has had to be cancelled due
to the Covid-19 outbreak.
14th March 2020 - an update
following work done on the loco by the Tuesday volunteer engineering
gang at Dinas together with a few photos.
25th February 2020 -
February's working party report and a few photos.
20th January 2020
- January's working party report and a few photos together with all the working
party dates
for 2020.
19th December 2019 - Added
the December working party notes and photos.
21st November 2019 -
Update for the November working party together with a few photos
29th October 2019 -
Finally added some photos following retrieval of data after two drive
failures within days of each other!!
23rd October 2019 - A
brief update
following the October working party. Due to a couple of 'technical'
issues any photographs will unfortunately have to follow at a later
date.
26th May 2019 - a somewhat
late, by a week, report from the May working party
together with the usual few photos. Also tidied up the working
party dates
page.
27th April 2019 - Update
in News
section regarding latest progress of pony trucks and brought the Summary
of Progress page up to date.
17th April 2019 - April
working party notes
and photos. Also a change of date
for the June working party.
23rd February 2019 -
A brief report on the February working party
together with some photos.
21st January 2019 -
January working party report and just a couple of photos together with the remaining
working party dates for 2019.
17th December 2018 - An
overdue report
and photos from the December working
party and an addition about the boiler.
20th November 2018 - News
about the boiler going away for overhaul. The November working pary report
and photos. Added dates
for the first three working parties of 2019. Finally also updated the
restoration's summary
of progress page.
19th February 2018 - A short
report and three photos from the February working
party.
24th January 2018 - Notes
and just three photos from the first working party
of 2018
13th December 2017 - The
usual monthly update with the latest (December) working
party notes and photographs. Also tidied up the working
party dates page and corrected a navigation error in the
Gallery index that prevented the October and November folders being
seen.
12th April 2017 - April's working
party report and photos. Split off 2016 workibg party
reports from the main page - these are now on their own 'archive'
page.
20th October 2016 - Update
following October's
working party. Also a revised date for the December
working party (brought forward one week).
25th September 2016 - A
brief note on our working party in September.
5th September 2016 - Added
some updated
information regarding NG15s №s119 & 124 held by Apple
Express.
25th August 2016 - A brief
update
of the activities, or rather activity, on the tender on the August 2016
working party.
24th July 2016 - A
somewhat belated, week overdue, report from the July working party
weekend together with a number of photos, with thanks to team member
Dave Oates for some of them.
16th February 2016 - Added
the February working
party report and usual selection of photos.
19th January 2016 - The
January 2016 working
party report and set of photos in the Gallery.
18th January 2016 - A
correction to the date for the February working party
due to an error on my part!
16th December 2015 - The
last working
party report for 2015 and associated picys in the Gallery. Also added are the dates
for the first three working parties of 2016.
25th November 2015 - The
November working
party report added together with three photos in the Gallery.
21st October 2015 - The
October Working
Party report and selection of photos in the Gallery.
19th October 2015 - A
change to the November Working Party date.
28th September 2015 - A
rather belated update on a number of fronts. First the August Working
party report, or rather more like 'notes'! Some notes from the
Superpower weekend and finally the September Working Party report. All
these are together (and in the usual reverse order!) on the Working
Party Reports page. Finally a couple of items in the News
section regarding re-wheeling and the locos cab plates. Apologies to
our readers for the lateness of all this, it meaning that the
'news' is really no longer in that category, but nevertheless it helps
to keep the record of progress up to date.
11th April 2015 - Added
some pictures in the News section (and the Gallery) about some new paterns that
have been made at Boston Lodge
25th March 2015 - New
badges are available. There are a different colour scheme to
the original badges and also include some of NGG16 №143's cab side
plate.
16th March 2015 - The
March working
party report is added together with the usual selection of
pictures in the Gallery. Took the opportunity to
move the 2014 reports onto their own page in the working
part report archive.
26th January 2015 - Added
the working
party dates for the rest of the year. Also news
of the arrival of our newly manufactured springs.
20th January 2015 - The
January working party saw 12 volunteers attend the weekend with some of
the team ending up working on K1 or the NGG16 operational fleet. A
report, as usual, is on the working
party reports page and pictures in the Gallery.
9th December 2014 -
Finally an update... It's with apologies that it's been three
months since the last update, not that there's been nothing happening
on the loco, just that more has been happening to the webmaster here.
Updates had been getting very difficult due to a rapidly deteriorating
cataract. However after its removal three weeks ago normal service is
once again possible. So what's in this update.....? Well for a start
there are the working party dates for the first
three month's of 2015. On the working party reports page there are
two updates. One is a summary of the October and November working
parties and the second a fuller report of the December
working party last weekend. Finally there are photos from the
November and December working parties in the Gallery.
9th October 2014
- addad another CAD view of how the loco will look.
2nd October 2014 - A revised
date for the December working party.
30th
September 2014 - a rather belated report
and photos following the September
working party.
14th July 2014 - added
some pictures of the work on the tender bogies and some from Clive
Briscoe of the recently tidied running plate on the loco frames. Both
added to the 2nd
June working party section for convenience. Also added an
update from Clive regarding the tidying work - -added to the working
party reports page.
25th June 2014 - Added
some more photos in the Gallery with updates to: brake
blocks (casting patterns), vacuum
reservoir tanks (mounting brackets) and wheels
(thrust plates). A general bringing up to date of the Progress
to Date page and some additional progress
information regarding the horns and C2 lubricator.
18th June 2014 - Added the
date for an additional working party in June and a revised date for the
September weekend. See the Working Party Dates page
28th May 2014 - An update
to the May
working party together with a load more photographs in the Gallery - with thanks to Clive
Briscoe.
22nd May 2014 - May's working
party report added. together with a solaty picture of our tender bogies
following their return from Boston Lodge. I hope to be able to add some
more photos later.
3rd April 2014 - A fairly
major revamp. Due to increasingly time
consuming incompatibility problems with the BluPlusPlus skin
and the latest JAlbum software used for the Gallery it's now converted
to the Matrix skin. The Gallery therefore
has a different look to it, although the sections are the same. This
has resulted in the need for changing many links in the site. The pages
have had a slight tweak in the there looks where photos are concerned.
Various other outdated/non-working links have been updated. The Post
Service page has been updated to reflect our current understanding of
the whereabouts of all the NG15s (If you know anything different then
please let us know). And finally, generally a revamp and updating
(change of tense) to various sections of text. NOTE: if you're a
regular visitor and it's gone in a bit of a muddle you may need to hit
reload in case the pages are cached.
22nd October 2013 -
October's working
party report added and a quick update on the tender bogies at
the bottom of that report.
15th October 2013 -
Updated page and added some photographs of
the rear drag box fitted into the frames
and a couple of the frames supported on the corner posts in the loco frames move section - both in
the Gallery.
10th October 2013 -
Another quick update
regarding the loco frames.
3rd October 2013 - Four
more pictures added to the Gallery in the tender bogies section courtesy of
Jon Whalley at Boston Lodge. These show the welding assembly for the
new brake rigging.
29th September 2013 - A
quick update
with photos
courtesy of Clive Briscoe showing the frames now supported by
the loco shed's corner jacks.
25th September 2013 -
Quite a bit has been happening with the NG15 and so there are a few
updates. First a belated report from the working party weekend of the
14th & 15th September in the Reports page. Also
on this page is mention of work being carried out at Boston Lodge on
the tender bogies. Finally, and this is a major event for us, the loco
frames have been moved from the clip shed where we'd been working thee
last few years to the main loco running shed. Details in the Latest
News page. Plenty of pictures of the latter in the Galley, with thanks to Tony Williams
and Ben Abbott.
24th August 2013 - There
are now some rather elegant badges and a key ring fob available in the
fundraising Merchandise section. Please buy one
(or more). A quick update from (the rather quiet) the August working
party.
4th August 2013 - Dragbox update - maching work at
Boston Lodge
23rd July 2013 - Photographs
and report
from the July working party.
21st June 2013 - Added
some photos courtesy of Clive Briscoe taken the week following the June
working party. Team Wylfa had been working on the loco as part of their
usual weekday evening working party and so as the pictures represent
the 'state of play' following theJune working party they're in the Gallery folder by that name. (One
has been replicated in the Rear Frame Stretcher section as well)
11th June 2013 - A few
updates.... added a quick report from the June
working party, including details of the new piston carting, update and photos of
the rear frame stretcher, update and photo for the rear
dragbox.
21st May 2013 - May's
working working
party report together with photos.
9th May 2013 - At last the
report for the April working party. This contains quite a
big update about the plans for this year together with details and photos of the new loco dragbox under
construction at Brunswick Ironworks.
9rd April 2013 - A belated
March working
party report together with some views of work done at Boston
Lodge on the tender bogies. All very late due to
software problems that compile the Gallery :-(
29th January 2013 -
belatedly added updates from December's two working
parties. Added a new page about the construction of the new dragbox for the loco into the Contract
Work section
18th January 2013 -
January working party cancelled - for details see working
party dates page.
13th June 2012 - June working
party report added (together with a selection of photos
in the Gallery) and added two more photos of the tender
in black,
again in the Gallery
29th May 2012 - Update
about the tender - visit to WHHR Spring Gala
and now in black.
3rd May 2012 - Added
details of the extra working party day on the 29th April.
Added details of prints of a painting of our NG15 that's been
produced to raise funds. Added an associated Merchandise
page.
24th April 2012 - April
working party report featuring the delivery of the tender body and its
fitting to 133's chassis. Various pages updated including Working
Party Reports, News, & the tender 'Contract
Works' page.
26th March 2012 - March
working party report
and pictures
21st February 2012 -
February working
party report added. Archived old
2010 & 2011 reports to reduce the page size. A few pictures
added of the portal
frame now at Dinas.
13th February 2012 - A
portal lifting frame has been made available for the group's use. See News
section.
18th January 2012 - added
May's working
party date - now the date for Rail Ale is known.
12th January 2012 - Short
update about the loco's rear
frame stretcher in the Contracts section
5th January 2012 - Updated
working
party dates to give the remaining dates for 2012. Added a
postscript to the December 2011 working party
report. covering Team Wylfa's recent efforts in preparing 133 tender
frame ready to receive 134's tender body.
28th November 2011 -
Brought the working party news up to date following the November
working party including some photos in the Gallery. Also a quick update on
the tender body.
13th October 2011 - A
rather belated update of the tender
body at the Superpower event last September
6th September 2011 -
Revamped the Donation pages and some of the associated links. Added an
update about the tender and its intended appearance at the Welsh
Highland Railway's Superpower event.
31st August 2011 - Team
Wylfa's contact email address update. Latest on the tender
with photographs taken on Tuesday 30th.
24th August 2011 - August's
working party report has been added together with a further
update about Team Wylfa's work on 133's tender chassis. Also added more
details and photos of progress on the tender
taken on the 23rd August.
2nd August 2011 - Photos
added of tender
construction progress on 1st August 2011.
27th July 2011- Photos
added of tender
construction progress during July.
11th July 2011 - Added
some more pictures of the tender
construction, with thanks to Pam Smith.
6th July 2011 - Added
latest progress of the tender
together with more photos in the Gallery.
30th June 2011 - added
this 'changelog' to the site (accessible from the homepage). Added the June
working party report of the selection of the best matched
wheels to go under №134' tender.
17th June 2011 - Report of
the
May working party. Also created a new section covering the
construction of the new tender body
as well as other larger 'contract' items. Finally changed the Gallery
pages for the contract work to align better with the new section.
