Project News

5551 Moved into Main Works at Tyseley

Submitted by alaws on 11 January, 2025 - 11:15

5551 'The Unknown Warrior' was moved into the main Works area at Tyseley Loco Works. Preparatory work for this started at the end of November 2024 with repositioning completed on December 10th. Funding has been authorised for the first of the reassembly tasks - the refitting of the horn guides to the frames. The repositioning of 5551 means that this work will now be able to start.

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Boiler Progress - Regulator trial-fitted

Submitted by alaws on 8 November, 2024 - 21:35

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Outside Cylinders are delivered to Tyseley

Submitted by Colin Hall on 2 October, 2024 - 10:30

The rectification work on the outside cylinders was completed at Riley & Son (E) Ltd in September. In a first for our project, they were delivered free of charge to Tyseley on Monday 30^th September by a new member and volunteer, using his own crane-equipped truck and trailer.

The transfer to Tyseley is an important step for the project, as the cylinders have to be refitted to the frames before essential frame alignment checks can be carried out. All of the cylinder valve work including design will now be carried out at Tyseley.

Outside cylinder

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5551 'The Unknown Warrior' Moves Inside Tyseley Loco Works

Submitted by alaws on 19 July, 2024 - 14:05

The LMS-Patriot Project is delighted to announce that another step forwards towards the completion of 5551 'The Unknown Warrior' took place on the 17th July, when the frames were moved inside the workshops at Tyseley Loco Works.

5551 inside TLW
Photo by Keith Riches.

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May - June 2024

Submitted by Colin Hall on 4 July, 2024 - 21:00

Engineering Progress

All being well we expect the movement of our chassis inside the Tyseley main workshop to happen on Monday 8^th July.

Further regular volunteer sessions have taken place in June and July at Tyseley. These concentrated on cleaning, polishing and some painting of a range of parts including various housings, expansion links, brake hanger brackets, motion components and tender axles. We have been allocated plenty of space in the new carriage shed for this purpose.

More expressions of interest have been received recently about volunteering at Tyseley, which is most encouraging.