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October 2025

Work continues on the Side Tanks Work has proceeded extremely well on the right hand tank over the last few weeks as per the attached pictures. 7/10/2025 – The photos below show that the two bottom halves of the tank have been welded together, with the curved...

September 2025

More progress on the Side Tanks As we approach the end of September 2025 Paul Orrells writes: The two bottom floor sections and the two front sides of the tanks have returned to Minehead following shot blasting. The small items which had been removed from the old...

August 2025

Side Tanks A team of 4 volunteers in Minehead workshops who built the replacement water tank for tender T2061, presently running with Odney Manor, have made arrangements to take on the building of the replacement side tanks for 4561 as a project. The work is taking...

19th February 2025

Boiler It’s been a while since we bid goodbye to 4561’s boiler and waved it off on its journey to Rileys.  Riley’s then had to complete a full assessment of the boiler and come up with a proposal for the refurbishment, with input from BES and the WSR...

3rd June 2024

It’s been almost 6 months since this blog was last updated and things have moved on quite a lot.  There was a pause in proceedings whilst the Trustees and the WSR PLC assessed the situation together and the Trustees made plans for the remainder of the...

24th January 2024

Work on 4561 continues steadily at Williton and we can now bring you some of the first images of the pony trucks on their wheels Words and pictures by Matt Healey These two images show the pony trucks on their wheels. Here we have the painted and cleaned Spring cups...