TODDINGTON Standard Locomotive Ltd (TSLL), the owner of BR‘4MT’No. 76077 has launched an appeal to raise the estimated £150,000 cost to overhaul the 2-6-0’s boiler.
While the engine is at Locomotive Maintenance Services’(LMS) Loughborough workshops, the boiler, No. 1052 built at Darlington in 1952, is currently at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway’s Toddington depot. Following a professional boiler inspection, a tender document, detailing the work required, is being sent to selected boiler workshops.
The boiler is generally in good condition, having been overhauled at Eastleigh in 1964 with the engine being withdrawn just three years later, both the parallel front section of the boiler barrel and the front tubeplate will be replaced.