We are asking for you to sponsor the purchase and installation of a Short Steel Boiler Stay in GWR Castle Class Number 7029 "Clun Castle".
At Tyseley Loco Works, the Birmingham Railway Museum Trust are in the process of restoring 7029 Clun Castle to Mainline Steam condition. We are targeting the 2013 Summer Open Weekend as Clun Castle's return to steam.
A boiler stay is an internal strengthener inside a steam boiler. Their function is to separate the inner (copper) firebox and outer (steel) wrapper. There are several forms of stays, according to the forces they must resist. Stays can be made of either copper or steel depending on their size and location within the firebox.
Although the design of stays to resist the simple pressure is relatively straightforward, careful design is required if they are to serve well and safely in use. Many boiler explosions have been caused by an initial failure in a boiler's stays.
Clun Castle is equipped with a modified GWR Type 8 boiler pressurized to a maximum of 225 PSI.
Smaller stays, located towards the bottom of the firebox near the foundation ring, can be as short a 5 inches. Crown stays are located on the top of the boiler and can reach 24 inches.
For this overhaul, it is estimated that Clun Castle will require the following number of Stays. Also listed is the estimated Manufacture & Installation cost:
Unfortunately, the stays are destroyed in the removal process, otherwise we would be willing to send you a used one, however, we do appreciate you assisting us with returning Clun Castle to steam. We will also include add you to our monthly electronic newsletter that details our progress with Clun and the other engines in the Tyseley Collection.
Ben is raising money for 7029 Clun Castle:
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Castles For The Future:
Visitors to the NRM's '1968 An All That' remarked at how wonderful Clun Castle looked, and added that it ought to be back on the mainline. Birmingham Railway Museum Trustees want to do just that, however they need your help. An appeal fund to overhaul 7029 Clun Castle entitled 'Castles For The Future' was formally launched at the Tyseley 100 Open Weekend in June 2008.
The overhaul has started, but will only progress as far as funds permit.
Further contributions will help to return to the main line this star of the 1964 'Farewell to Steam on the Western'. Who knows? It may even get a chance to have another crack at that epic run! With your help we could try to make it happen?
7029 Clun Castle:
7029 Clun Castle is the engine that started off the preservation era at Tyseley in 1968. It was saved for eventual preservation on the Dart Valley Railway, but after the withdrawal of all steam on the Western Region was kept at Tyseley for use on enthusiast specials. It 'stayed on' after all other steam activities had ceased and became the flagship locomotive for the Tyseley Collection giving its name to the collection's owning company '7029 Clun Castle Ltd'.
7029 was constructed by BR at Swindon in May 1950 as one of the last batch of 'Castles'. In its present condition it represents the final development of the class incorporating the modifications made in the 1950s. Outwardly, the only indication of enhanced performance is the double chimney, but internally the boiler has a four-row superheater and altered smokebox draughting arrangements. 7029 was the last 'Castle' to remain in BR service and was withdrawn in 1965.
Prior to withdrawal, in 1964 'Clun' achieved its finest moment at the head of an enthusiasts special commemorating the end of express steam working on the Western Region. On the descent of Wellington bank in Somerset, the locomotive achieved a top speed of 96 mph on the fastest ever recorded timing over the arduous route from Plymouth to Bristol. It hauled the last steam service train from Paddington in 1965 and was also the last steam engine to leave the former Snow Hill station with a passenger train.
Since preservation, the engine has travelled widely on excursions and to Open Days in London, Newcastle, Carlisle, Leeds, York, Liverpool, Stratford. Didcot and Hereford.
During 1985, 'Clun Castle' played a prominent part in the Great Western Railway 150th Anniversary celebrations by hauling main line trains as far away as South Wales and Cornwall.
Clun Castle was the last steam engine to haul a train from the original Moor Street station before it closed making way for the 'new' Moor Street station situated on the through lines to Snow Hill. Indeed this was the last train out of the original Moor Street station before it was closed.
Clun Castle the first steam locomotive to use the new Snow Hill station which was opened by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales who rode on the footplate through the Snow Hill tunnel to Moor Street and on to Tyseley. Clun has seen spells of duty at the Great Central Railway & Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway, and was a popular engine on the Steam Locomotive Driving Experience Courses which were run at Tyseley. Her current 'certificate' ran out at the end of 2001 and she now awaits her turn for overhaul in Tyseley Locomotive Works.
An appeal to fund the overhaul and return of Clun to the mainline was formally launched at the Tyseley 100 Open Weekend on 28/29 June 2008.
Charity Registration No: 10409047029
Donations
4 donations made so far
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Date
Amount
Gift Aid
Message
bob stranger
01/04/2012
£10.00
£2.50
MikeParkin65
26/03/2012
£10.00
£2.50
Thanks for 6201 and the Panniers up the Lickey - 7029 next?
Simon West
29/04/2011
£45.00
£11.25
My donation for 3 Copper Stays
agent skj
15/02/2011
£6.00
N/A
My donation for the purchase of a small stay . I would like a used one sent to me please
