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Welcome
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Welcome to the Renown Repulse Restoration Group Website.
Unfortunately following a terminal failure of our previous server, and its back up, the RRRG Website has been unavailable for a few months.
We are now back online with a new revised website which we hope you will enjoy looking through, but please bear with us, as the site is still under development and is being added to on a weekly basis.
As time allows new pages, features, pictures and additional details to captions, etc, will be added to both update the story and to fill in the history of the group and the locos.
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June 2010: RRRG 2011 calendar Class 50: The Final Years now available. Click the image or this link for details.
Have Microsoft Train Simulator? Want highly-realistic Class 50s on your computer, better than the freeware addons out there? Click on the image for more...
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2002: 50030 is shunted at Blaenavon ready for the move to Peak Rail
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2002: Almost there
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50030 Repulse in the condition we bought her, immediately after arrival at Peak Rail in October 2002.
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The Renown Repulse Restoration Group is working to restore former British Rail Class 50 locomotives 50029 'Renown' and 50030 'Repulse' to running condition at Peak Rail in Derbyshire. Since buying them in 2002 both have been fully restored externally into BR Large Logo livery. Heavy mechanical and electrical work is now currently under way...
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28/6/2010
We will be operating our stand at the Peak Rail "Anything Goes" mixed traffic event the following weekend (10th and 11th July) where we will be on the platform at Rowsley South station. Copies of the 2011 calendar will be on sale, and our usual mixture of brand new and second hand books, models, DVDs and videos will be up for purchase. Come and say hello (there's a chance of a tour of the engines if you ask at the sales stand during the Peak Rail event but we cannot promise this as it is subject to Peak Rail's operating arrangements).
17/6/2010
We are delighted to announce the release of the 2011 RRRG calendar. This high-quality A3 format publication is entitled Class 50: The Final Years and features photographs from the camera of Mark Burrows of Class 50s in the twilight years of their British Rail service from 1989 to 1991. Price: £9 plus £3 UK P+P for mail order (available from eBay, mail order or the RRRG sales stand at events).
11/5/2010
A new MSTS downloadable locomotive for the Peak Rail pack is now avaliable, 37152 in Railfreight Red Stripe! Visit the Peak Rail MSTS page for download info.
23/1/2010
We are pleased to announce that we have a quantity of Hornby model railway items and scale motor vehicles for sale. These are all brand new items, unopened except for photography purposes. Items available include Hornby railway models, Hornby OO scale cars and vans and Corgi OO scale cars and vans. We are working on getting a web shopping cart system for our site, meantime please e-mail membership@renownrepulse.com if you are interested in purchasing any of these items.
Additional downloadable activities for the Preservation Era 50 pack involving runs on Swanage and East Lancs are now avaliable too!
5/12/2009
We have released a third train simulator pack, covering Class 50s in preservation. This is marketed and distributed by sister organisation, Renown Repulse Universal. More details from the Train Simulator section of the Retail Sales page. All items are available from the RRU eBay shop in addition. This exciting new pack adds to the existing Fifty 50s and Peak Rail train simulator products on offer from RRU.
5/10/2009
A commercial spin-off of RRRG, Renown Repulse Universal, has taken responsibility for the Fifty 50s pack for Microsoft Train Simulator. This is now available to buy both online and in person from our sales stands. More details here. Also available is a Peak Rail pack including the Peak Rail route from Rowsley South to Matlock and lots and lots of diesel and steam locos. Buying this pack benefits both Peak Rail and RRRG.
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Progress
Both locos have been restored to Large Logo BR Blue to make them more presentable for the railway. Considerable welding has been performed to combat English Electric Cabside RotTM. More work is currently underway to repair the heavily corroded area between the headcode boxes and windscreens to make the cabs fully weatherproof again.
On the "technical front", all efforts are currently concentrated on 50030 as she was in better internal condition than 50029. The power unit in 50030 was partially stripped down and all of cylinder heads removed before we successfully tendered for a complete (but high hours) power unit ex-50008 Thunderer. Finances for over 80% of the components necessary to return this unit to fully overhauled condition are in place, the items are being ordered on an "as needed" basis, and work on the unit is well advanced with all of the cylinder liners having been refitted, complete with new seals, etc, and a start made on refitting the pistons, connecting rods and cylinder heads, etc, all of which have been fully overhauled.
We have the majority of the items needed to restore 50030 electrically. Work on the electrical cubicle, which was an empty shell at the time of purchase, is now at an advanced stage, being around 75% complete.
Cab restoration is progressing well, the brake frame in 50030 has been completely stripped out for cleaning, repairing and rebuilding and we hope to have the power unit reassembled for next winter.
50030 Repulse and 50029 Renown seen at Rowsley - 16th September 2007
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