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Welcome to the new 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.
Thanks
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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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Welcome
The Renown Repulse Restoration Group is working to restore former British Rail Class 50 locomotives 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 underway..
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LATEST NEWS: 23rd June 2009:
RRRG and our sales stand will be at the Midland Railway Butterley's English Electric event on Saturday 27th June when amongst other loco's, 50 007 'Sir Edward Elgar' will be working, and at the Peak Rail diesel gala on Sunday 28th June. 50 029 'Renown' will be on display at Rowsley this weekend. See you at Butterley or Rowsley!
10th June 2009:
The new RRRG web forum for Group members has been launched. It's available via the Members Only menu at the top of your screen, or via this direct link. Thanks to Peter Tabord for hosting this board for us.
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NEW May 2009: The original Sponsor A Component appeal to fund power unit components for 50030 is almost fully subscribed - thanks to all who contributed! As a result, we have launched a new appeal to fund the acquisition of vital components sourced from redundant Class 37 and 56 locomotives. Acquiring these spares will greatly speed up the restoration of both our locos so please help if you can!
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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 "making them work again 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 "zero hours" 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.
Targets for 2009 are to restore at least one cab as a "show home" and to have the power unit reassembled for next winter.
50030 Repulse and 50029 Renown seen at Rowsley 16th September 2007
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