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Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:34 pm**

shildon saturday 9th june ..

mr B

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:37 pm**

Superb!

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:11 pm**

Is that smokebox a placeholder one?

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:27 pm**

Very exciting! Hopefully not long now before we see the whole thing....

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:20 pm**

Ay up!

Looks like the A1 Trust has some competition. This should be a little cracker when finished!

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:07 pm**

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.

Mark in OZ

Posted: **Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:05 pm**

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.

Eddie

Posted: **Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:35 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:48 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2012 2:19 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:59 pm**

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?

The Nation Must Be Told - but not just yet!

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:05 am**

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

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:52 pm**

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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