New Build G5

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Re: New Build G5

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shildon saturday 9th june ..

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Superb! :D
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Re: New Build G5

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Is that smokebox a placeholder one?
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Re: New Build G5

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Very exciting! Hopefully not long now before we see the whole thing....
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Re: New Build G5

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Ay up!

Looks like the A1 Trust has some competition. This should be a little cracker when finished!
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Re: New Build G5

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The G5 boiler looks very good. Will have to save my pennies to travel back to the UK when finished to see it in action.

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Re: New Build G5

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Sorry guys, but this isn't the G5's boiler. It is off an industrial loco at a guess. The G5's boiler has a welded shell and the one in the photo is riveted. The dome and chimney aren't tall enough and the smokebox is the wrong shape. It also has a boiler feed bush on the side and the G5 does not. Check against the photos on the G5 Co website and its very obviously a different boiler.

I'm sure someone can tell us which loco it belongs to.

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Re: New Build G5

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Update from the website - open day next week if anyone's interested

OPEN DAY!!

SATURDAY 4TH AUGUST 2012 10.00AM - 12.30PM

@ Rail Restorations North East Ltd

Unit 8A, Hackworth Industrial Park, Shildon, Co Durham DL4 1HF

FREE ADMISSION!!

See the G5 under construction on Saturday the 4th, witness the art of professional machining and get the opportunity to chat with the Project Manager and take photographs. Light refreshments and Merchandise available.

Donations welcome.
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Re: New Build G5

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Spotted these on Flickr - caption states 'see you in December' - G5 running before the year's out? Yes please!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78921249@N ... 359749@N24

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78921249@N ... 59749@N24/

According to the website there's another open day on Saturday 6th October - http://www.g5locomotive.co.uk/latest-news/24/

They're also on Facebook and Twitter now - http://twitter.com/g5loco - although the background of the Twitter page looks like a C12?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Class-G5- ... 7485267433
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Re: New Build G5

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Those Flickr photos are nothing to do with the G5 as far as I can tell, they are of the Weardale Railway's RSH No. 40's boiler and ashpan. I think the pace of work on the G5 has slowed a lot since the cost of it doubled and they have to find more shareholders.
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Re: New Build G5

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Ay up!

It certainly isn't a new boiler, I can tell you that. There's quite a lot of rust on the rear of the firebox, too much for a new boiler. And that ashpan? Could it be that this is the boiler that will be used on the G5?

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Re: New Build G5

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The third photo in the series showing the boiler being lifted from No. 40's frames (and captioned as such) is the real giveaway!
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Re: New Build G5

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And that ashpan?
The ashpan on a G5 is flat along the bottom with front and rear damper flaps.
I have raked out too many G5 ashpans at Botanic to be unsure. Certainly, the one in the photo does not appear to be even NER.
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