The pictures of the first finished connecting rod have come in and it does look rather good don't you think?

More pictures are coming in of the connecting rods currently being manufactured for us by Ufone Precision Engineering, and how good do th...

An excellent day by the team today saw them fitting the smokebox. This has given us a real first view of a County not seen for many a yea...

Straight into the inbox today are these pictures from HBSS of the casting for the safety valve base. Also recently updated is our fundrai...

Typically, having just published an update, another arrives in the inbox. This time with some up to date pictures of the connecting rods w...

Hot off the press is this picture of one of the crossheads being trial fitted onto the piston rod. It also gives a good insiders view of ...

A picture has just come in from Somers Forge Ltd of the valve extension rods they have just completed forging. These are now being transp...

With things starting to really ramp up it is good to see yet more progress on the project. With work on the boiler and rods underway, it'...

We are launching a special fund to finish the project. £200,000 will see a Hawksworth County in steam for the first time since 1964! 56 y...

Radio silence has not meant a lack of progress. Despite the restrictions in place across the country, many firms are finding ways to carr...

It's brilliant to see, that even in this time of unprecedented working conditions, some great progress is still being made. HBSS, our boi...

Malcolm Doling has been in touch and sent us this fantastic picture of 1019 County of Merioneth (my favourite as I'm a Ffestiniog volunte...

Typically just when nothing else was expected this month, along came a telegram from Didcot. Despite the weather (will we manage to compl...

Much work continues although much behind the scenes. I spent a happy hour or so in the NRM at York digging out drawings for the project. ...

Happy New Year to all our readers. Thank you for your support to date and we look forward to you continuing to support us through to comp...

Latest good news is the crossheads have been cast and will now go to be machined. Meanwhile at Didcot, work to attach the springs has fin...

There has been a surge in recent news updates coming into the webmaster's inbox, so here amalgamated are the most recent stories: Cast pl...

Great to see that at the end of last week the smokebox was delivered to Didcot. This is a massive step forward in being able to visualise...

Here is the first view of our new County smokebox. Doesn't it look good? We are excited to see what it will look like on the loco.

Latest news update from the coalface: A quiet day Saturday. We were going to install the tender vacuum cylinder but we noticed it had a d...