Members of the Class 40 Preservation Society have recently paid a visit to Kidderminster on the SVR, to repair the steam heat on locomotive 40106.
The boiler has been stripped several times, many small parts have been cleaned and exchanged and soot removed.
The boiler was fired up on the 17th and passed inspections, so 40106 is now operational for the Severn Valley Railway's Santa Specials!
This is great news for the Class 40 and means it can finally return to service.
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Used to be a bugger keeping them boilers going as a secondman sometimes, but once they got going they were quite good , still got my manuals for them as well
Boilers were always the Achilles heal of the diesels, as a second man at Hornsey I must have spent ages in the engine room trying to get the things working…Stones, Clayton, Spanner…just when you thought you had succeeded the white failure light would pop up again on the cab panel…memories!