Chris Hoskin
Happy face
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.
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Chris Hoskin
- Jul 29, 2019
- 1 min
More tendering
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...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jul 23, 2019
- 1 min
A face emerging
A recent update has come in with progress on the smokebox. This detail photo shows the real quality of the job being done. We hope to see...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jul 19, 2019
- 1 min
A Thousand Words
It's often been said that a picture paints a thousand words. We sometimes get picture sent in, often with a story behind them; please do...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jun 27, 2019
- 1 min
Saddle up
The main recent success is that at last the wheels are back in place and work is progressing fitting the springs and brake gear. The...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jun 3, 2019
- 1 min
Smokebox and wheels
More progress pictures have recently dropped into my inbox showing the latest stage with the smokebox. The ring has now been permanently...
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Chris Hoskin
- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
Facial features
Pictures have arrived this week showing the progress on the smokebox door hinges and door straps. The ring half of the hinges are...
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Chris Hoskin
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
Launch Weekend Progress
This weekend saw another working party on the County, coinciding with the launch of the Saint, Lady of Legend. It will be fantastic when...
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Chris Hoskin
- Mar 28, 2019
- 1 min
All very Holey
With the Saint launch only a week away, we thought we'd get all holy as well. Only our focus is the front tubeplate which will soon be...
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Chris Hoskin
- Mar 11, 2019
- 1 min
In a vacuum
Work continues on various fronts. With the tender coming on a treat, the braking needs looking into. Here Gary Davies is trial fitting...
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Chris Hoskin
- Feb 26, 2019
- 1 min
Press and progress
Our latest press release to the media reads as follows: Following a recent visit to Goodman’s of Nottingham the 1014 Project team were...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jan 25, 2019
- 1 min
Tender progress
The title is not so much a commentary on how difficult it can be to build a new steam locomotive, more an actual statement of further...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jan 18, 2019
- 1 min
happy faces
Just like buses, just after you put one post out, more news arrives on the electronic pigeon. In this case it is progress with the front...
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Chris Hoskin
- Jan 12, 2019
- 1 min
Post Christmas Exercise
Always in need of working off all that lovely Christmas pudding, our dedicated team got together between Christmas and New Year to do...
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Chris Hoskin
- Dec 2, 2018
- 1 min
December News Update - into the New Year
Following our visit to HBSS Ltd (boilersmiths of Huyton, Merseyside) we have given them the go-ahead beginning in the new year to...
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Chris Hoskin
- Nov 27, 2018
- 2 min
News update November 2018
Since November 2017, when the last update appeared in The Railway Magazine, we have raised around a third of the money required to...
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Chris Hoskin
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
Heating up
Richard Croucher, our Appeal Coordinator provides this update: Following a period of change for our suppliers, the two barrel sections...
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Chris Hoskin
- Oct 8, 2018
- 1 min
Running progress
Dicky Boast comments on the recent working party... There has been so very little happening in the last month - highly frustrating;...
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Chris Hoskin
- Aug 20, 2018
- 2 min
introducing the new webmaster
Hi Everyone, As the sun has now set on Terry's excellent reign of the County Project website, I thought I'd best introduce myself just so...
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Chris Hoskin
- Aug 20, 2018
- 3 min
2018 Q2 update
Things seem to be looking up of late. Dicky Boast has started work on a set of lubricator pots, produced from 65 mm steel tube, turned...
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