Raising Steam 2014 Vol.28 No.4

Raising Steam

Steam Appr entice Club

Editor

Jenny Lee, 3 Lanes Close, Kings Bromley, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 7JS 01543 473124 jen massey@hotmail co uk

Chairman

Elaine Massey, 21 Down Close, Northolt, Middlesex UB5 6NS Tel: 020 8248 6570 elainermassey@live co uk

Vice Chairman

Hugh Dyson, 32 Granary End, Witchford, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB6 2WF Tel: 01353 667150 hugh dyson@inbox com

Membership Secretary

Lisa Crankshaw, NTET Membership PO Box 10348 Hinckley LE10 9FB membership@sac co uk

Membership fee £10 per annum

Webmaster

Nick Bosworth, 9A St Wilfrid’s Road, West Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 6HG Tel: 01159 309868

sac webmaster@ntet co uk

SAC Committee

David Lee davidjameslee2003@yahoo.co.uk

Matthew Lund Tel: 01329 832462 matt.lund@engineer.com

Kevin Munn Tel: 020 8573 9180

sac contact6@ntet co uk

Barry Sumsion Tel: 01633 671798 barrysumsion@gmail.com

Helen Tyrrell Tel: 01793 751830 helen@thetyrrells org Burrell Project Co-ordinator

Hugh Dyson Tel: 01353 667150 hugh.dyson@inbox.com

The Editor welcomes any contributions of articles, shorter items or photographs for inclusion in future issues All material submitted is voluntary and payment cannot be made for any material published The opinions expressed in the magazine, with the exception of Club announcements, are those of the contributors and do not indicate the views of the Club as a whole All items are held copyright by the contributor and the NTET. The Editor reserves the right to amend or refuse contributions The magazine is normally published during January, April, July and October The Club accepts no liability for failure to meet intended publication dates

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Fr om the Editor

Jenny Lee

We l l h a s n’ t i t b e e n a n i n t e r e s t i n g

f e w m o n t h s ! Fi r s t w e h a d D o r s e t w i t h

t h e W W 1 d i s p l a y s , c o m p l e t e w i t h

a u t h e n t i c m u d ! T h e m o d e l t a n k s t h a t some of you submitted were absolutely amazing! So were the photographs! And t h e c o l o u r i n g c o m p e t i t i o n e n t r i e s ! Yo u should all be very proud! Whilst there, s o m e o f t h e A p p r e n t i c e s h e l p e d b u i l d the trailer for Lady Sylvia. It all went very smoothly indeed

We h a v e h a d a f e w d r i v i n g d a y s happen as well. As far as I know they all w e n t s w i m m i n g l y. T h a n k y o u t o t h e organisers. How did you find them? Let me know.

We h a v e a l s o h a d t h e l a u n c h p a r t y f o r L a d y S y l v i a . H o w a m a z i n g i s i t t h a t w e ( t h e c l u b ) h a v e o u r

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r k i n g 4 inch model that you guys built? It’s just wonderful! 2 years well spent I’d say I feel so proud of all those who helped!

And to top it all off, we had the 60th road run for the NTET with Lady Sylvia b e i n g e n g i n e n u m b e r o n e ! W h a t a privilege. Did any of you make it to the r o a d r u n ? I ’ d l o v e t o h e a r f r o m y o u about it.

Winter will soon be upon us, so be safe and happy steaming while you can!

Fr om the Chairman

Elaine Massey

Here we are, at the end of another season already!

Fo r t h o s e o f y o u w h o m a d e i t t o

t h e G r e a t D o r s e t S t e a m Fa i r o u r

a c t i v i t i e s w e r e d e f i n i t e l y c u r t a i l e d w i t h no engine movement until late on Friday afternoon. However, all was not lost and w e h a d a t r a i l e r t o b u i l d f r o m S t e a m

Tr a c t i o n Wo r l d w h i c h w i l l p a r t n e r o u r

Burrell Lady Sylvia who was undergoing trials and boiler testing at the time The W W 1 d i s p l a y s a t G D S F w e r e f a n t a s t i c , i n c l u d i n g w a l k- t h r o u g h t r e n c h e s a n d a

S o p w i t h Pu p ( a e r o p l a n e ) i n t h e N T E T marquee.

Two weeks later and it was time for t h e B e d f o r d s h i r e S t e a m a n d C o u n t r y

Fa i r ; 1 1 a m o n t h e S a t u r d a y s a w t h e launch celebration for Lady Sylvia It was attended by over a hundred people, our s p o n s o r s , p r e s

A p p r e n t i c e s ! L a d y S y l v i a w a s u n v e i l e d and looked wonderful in the sunlight –serious congratulations are due to Hugh Dyson, the Burrell's Project Manager

A f t e r a n i m p r o m p t u p h o t o s h o o t i n front of Shuttleworth House, Lady Sylvia w a s s t e a m e d i n t h e a f t e r n o o n a n d p u t through her paces away from the public before entering the arena for her debut.

As I write this, next weekend she will be at the NTET 60th Road Run. During t h e w i n t e r s h e w i l l b e a t t h r e e m o d e l engineering shows:Midlands (Leamington Spa, 16th-19th October ),

Model Engineer Exhibition (Sandown Racecourse 12th-14th December ), and London Model Engineering Show (Alexander Palace 16th-18th January).

Hugh is tr ying to get her 'ticking over' just right

Book Review

Books for Steamers

The newest tale from Peter's Railway! Holiday at Lunan Bay

While enjoying a family holiday by the sea, Grandpa finds a report of a railway crash which occurred in 1958, and takes the children to see the site and look for evidence. The story behind the crash is one of human error and misinterpretation.

Like the hardback books this little book has some wonderful technical pages giving the science behind the story

A great gift for Christmas, aimed at readers from ages 6-12.

Mailbag

Write to us!

SAC report of the Salop Driving Day, 23 August 2014

After arriving at 9.30am and waiting for everyone to arrive, we were assigned to our engines. Mine was an advanced roller named Chip Chase. After about 10 minutes on Chip Chase, during which we cleaned out the tubes and de -ashed the smoke -box, I had fallen in love with her! We then spent 3 hours polishing – she was gleaming .

After lighting the fire and waiting for the pressure gauge to get up to 100psi, we started learning the controls and had our first go at the wheel. It was brilliant. We drove around the field a few times and then it was lunchtime We had bacon butties cooked on the shovel – lovely. We then spent most of the afternoon driving round in circles! We then had a go in two other engines, a Foden traction engine and an Aveling and Porter road roller.

New Appr entices

The SAC welcomes the following new members

Logan Abbott, Bedfordshire

Rosalie Ansel, Dorset

Ashley Anthoney, Dorset

Katie Avery, Gloucestershire

Thomas Binks, Essex

William Thomas, Bucks

Philippa Brown, Wrexham

Christopher Butler, Wrexham

Hannah Byrne, Cheshire

The next day was the start of the steam rally at Onslow Park. I was walking around the show ground with Mum and Dad when I saw Richard, the owner of one of the engines I had driven the day before. He was standing polishing his mighty Foden traction engine. I went over and asked, in a hopeful voice, whether he wanted someone to go around the ring with him in the Grand Parade. He said yes, as long as I did some polishing! So I put on my overalls and started polishing At 2pm I got onto the foot plate for the trip around the ring I was then told that I would be steering . Oh! Luckily I did the whole affair without crashing . I said a very big thank you and gave him a pot of WD40 (I had used rather a lot when cleaning the wheels!)

So, thank you to Doug Milns and everyone who helped organise the day I had a brilliant time and am looking forward to the next one.

Regards, Peter Bowen, 5544

Torin Clements, Wiltshire

Abbie May Clinton, Shropshire

Alec Colbeck, Hertfordshire

Neve Ann Cox, Gloucestershire

Daniel Davies, Kent

Gareth Davies, Buckinghamshire

John Durbridge, Surrey

Thomas Fielding -Link, Lancashire

Thomas Gardiner, West Midlands

Willem Glass, Cornwall

Harry Hammond, Norfolk

Benjamin Henwood, Cornwall

Luke Higashikawa, Ireland

Briany Humphrey, Berkshire

Alfie Jones, Hampshire

James Lander, West Sussex

Chloe - Jayne Lovering , Devon

Oliver Lovering , Devon

Tino Mason-Whittlestone, Devon

Danielle Moore, Nottinghamshire

Oliver Moore, Hampshire

Timothy Moors, Dorset

Liam Oakley, Shropshire

Charlie Paskins, Hampshire

Charlie Pepper, Somerset

WORDSEARCH

How many can you find?

Bedford

Club

Burrell

Project

Lady

Sylvia Model Engineer Steam Apprentice

Harley Plumb, Cambridgeshire

Tom Plumridge, Devon

Jordan Reed, Lincolnshire

Hazel Rose, Hampshire

Jamys Semmens, Cornwall

Lorna Semmens, Cornwall

Harrison Simmonds, St Columb

Alexander Stackhouse, Devon

James Teper, Lancashire

Niamh Teper, Lancashire

Thomas Tremain, Cornwall

Jack Wakelin, Hampshire

Peter Waterman, Bristol

Dominic M Whibley, Hampshire

Nathan Woods, Hants

George Worth, Devon

Fun designed especially for Appr entices!

The 24th May was the opening of a fab new permanent exhibition at Highley Station on the Severn Valley Railway.

As you can see, this is based around the Peter's Railway books, but is an excellent place to explore and learn about engineering . Featuring interactive exhibits and visuals from Christopher Vine’s popular children’s books about Peter, his Grandpa and the miniature steam railway they build and operate down on the farm.

The Young Engineers' Centre is a must for any young steam fans and budding engineers

Competition Winners

Jenny Lee

These lovely people are the winners of our competitions at this year ’s Great Dorset Steam Fair. Well done to you!

The winners for the Senior Photo are Harry Garrod who came 1st, Danielle Wainwright, 2nd, and Victoria Hough, 3rd.

The winners for the Junior Photo are Jonathan Jewell, who came 1st, Oliver Jacobs, 2nd, and Louis Bradshaw, 3rd.

The winners for the Model Competition are James Allen who came 1st, Patrick Tepper, 2nd, and Ellis Morris, 3rd.

Last, but by all means not least, we have the Colouring Competition. The winners are as follows; Oliver Jacobs who came 1st, Tia Harkup, 2nd, and Isaac Jacobs, 3rd.

Poppy Goldsmith having her first ever steer of a steam engine at St Albans driving day. Engine owned by Steve War d. Reg YA1177 Royalty no 9370. Made 1921 10 ton slide valve Aveling and Porter r oller.

Matthew Burton alongside owner Dennis lee at the St Albans driving day, on a 6 inch Ruston and Pr octor with unusual to see extra tanks. When I first spoke to Dennis I joked it made the engine ‘long range ’ . He infor med they ar e tanks made to original Ruston drawings and put on convertible engines for when it became a r oller.

James Allen getting use to steering Aveling and Porter 4 ton r oller Type R4 Reg FC4016 Royalty number 7385, again at St Albans driving day. Built 1911 for Oxfor d Council to go down the smaller alleyways and patchwork of r oads. Brian Baker is driving.

What present would you like?

Ask someone to give you a voucher for the NTET Driving Course on 09/10 May 2015 at Astwood Bank.

Steam Apprentices (age 13-15) £80, (age 16 – 21) £115 for the two days. D

Contact Joe Black at:- training@ntet.co.uk or by phone on 07595 466353

G e t Te c h n i c a l !

L ady Sylvia makes her debut at the NTET's 60th anniversary Road Run

Elaine

Massey

The road run held to celebrate the 60th birthday of the NTET was held at Old Warden, on the 27th September. It was a wonderful, warm sunny day after an early mist, and also the SAC's 35th birthday!!!

Lady Sylvia, our bright and shiny blue 4” scale Burrell was there to greet all, and show the world that she was finished,

boiler ticketed and ready for steaming

This was the final step in our most significant and challenging project ever –for the young people in the SAC to build their own traction engine!

A fire was put in early in the day after the engine was thoroughly checked over, there were lots of Apprentices around to help with all the jobs (though it has to be

said there was not much cleaning to do) and once she was up to pressure we were off, towing a trailer which was lent for the day by Julian Tyrrell as ours is not quite finished yet. All the Apprentices there were able to take a turn or two at driving – even Andrew Semple came over to have a look! (Andrew is the President of the NTET). “Is there an Apprentice who could give me some instruction?” he asked. Ellis Morris jumped up and soon Andrew had taken the helm! “ Very nice engine” he declared as he alighted!

That she was there at all, is the

product of an idea we had over coffee at St. Albans driving day three years ago, and is thanks to Steam Traction World for not saying no, thanks to all our other sponsors, (Steam Traction World, Statfold Barn Railway, Porterbrook, Craftmaster Paints and Steam Supplies, Hetherington Lamps, Walker Midgley Insurance and Peter Hawkins Inspections), and lastly but most importantly, thanks to our project manager Hugh Dyson! Without the generosity and willingness of all these people, it would never have happened, so again thank you!

Aveling Update

Kevin Munn

Now the headstock was in position I wanted to avoid what might have caused the smoke -box to corrode in the first place. When I was taking apart the headstock from the smoke box I found lots of ash had been trapped between them. This was because there was a large gap. Ash retains dampness so I figured if I filled in the gap no ash could be trapped and therefore no dampness leading to corrosion?! I therefore filled the gap with fire cement, smoothed it over so that the gases, smoke and ash would flow up into the chimney. Next came the smoke -box door This was a complete rebuild as the old sheet work had corroded away so that it was very thin indeed. Rather than cut it out, file and goodness knows what else I used a local sheet metal workshop to laser cut out the door parts using the

Just for fun

Kevin Munn

Did you guess what it is?

Remember this?

It is the pressure relief valves off an Aveling , as if you are looking straight down onto them.

old ones as a pattern This saved a lot of time and effort and was not too expensive. A case of new technology being used to restore the old.

I also took the opportunity whilst everything was apart to check the bearings that the various shafts go in. Several bushes were worn, one quite badly so I had more expense in laying out for material and someone to machine them for me.

I used SAE 660 SAE 660 is one of the most widely used alloys on the bronze range, mainly due to its versatility as a medium range bronze that make it suitable for many applications. It is suitable for my application for the bearings as well as bushings that are under medium loads and speed while using adequate lubrication

Calling all Appr entices in the Leicestershir e ar ea.

We have had a request from a steam roller owner in the Leicestershire area who is looking for a full-time apprentice.

This is the Aveling and Porter you would be helping out with.

He requires an older apprentice (15+) who would be capable of helping with the day-to - day maintenance and rallying of his roller in the Midlands area, so be prepared for hard work as well as going to rallies.

Someone with experience of running a steam engine would be preferred.

If you are interested, please send us a message on sac.webmaster@ntet.co.uk, with your name, age, location and phone number. Please also list any experience you have with steam engines.

Details of those who apply will be discussed with the roller owner, and if we think someone is suitable, we will let you know.