Archive for the ‘Progress’ Category

Fastline Donate Engine Parts for 68030

Some excellent news over the last few weeks regarding the missing engine parts for the Matisa.

We have managed to source and retrieve nearly all the parts we need for the Rolls Royce engine and also some of the transmission. The mechanical side of things on this machine is now looking much better and now that we have the parts Mark and Dave will be fitting them during the next few work parties. All of the items were kindly donated by FastLine (formerly Jarvis) via one of our contacts – so a very big thank you must go out to him and of course the management at FastLine for agreeing to donate the parts to us.

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General progress update

An update into what has been happening at the Colne Valley Railway over the past month or so…

As already detailed in previous reports we have now taken delivery of the first two of our machines – a Permaquip Powered Canopy Trolley and a Matisa Inspection vehicle at our new base – The Colne Valley Railway.

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