SINGLE LINES

■ RICHMOND Light Railway’s August 17 charity steam fair has been cancelled since social distancing would be difficult at the confined private site, combined with the limited passenger stock. New boiler tubes for Hunslet 0-4-0ST

Elin have been delivered, with the railway anticipating the 2021 steam fair will centre on a celebration of

Elin returning to steam.

■ THE boiler of Keith Nicholls’West Lancashire Light Railway-based O&K 0-4-0WTT Montalban

has returned to Hesketh Bank following repairs at Johnsons of Banks and is ready to be returned to the frames. Montalban last steamed in 2015.

■ STEAM was raised in the Kirklees Light Railway’s Taylor 2-6-2T Fox for the first time in more than five years on June 29. Fox was withdrawn on Christmas Eve 2014 for an overhaul, which has taken much longer than anticipated.

■ THE bogies, built in-house by the Corris Railway, have been fitted under the body of the line’s new carriage No.

23. The carriage could be ready to enter service when public running starts again.

■ ISLE of Man Post Office is marking this year’s 125th anniversary of the Snaefell Mountain Railway with the issue of six stamps illustrating the 3ft 6in-gauge line.

■ THE wheelsets and coupling rods were added to the restored frames of Martyn Ashworth’s Avonside 0-4-0T Ogwen on June 30.

■ WORK on the replica Pickering brake carriage being constructed for

Welsh Highland Heritage Railway at Boston Lodge has restarted. The internal cladding is sufficiently complete to enable installation of electric wiring, and design work on the bogies has been undertaken pending the start of construction.

■ LISTER Type R Rail Truck 40407/1954 will be reverted to 2ft gauge following its acquisition by Richmond Light Railway earlier this year. The loco was

15in gauge when bought from Perrygrove Railway, where it had been resident since 2011, and was named Pylon. Perrygrove is applying the sale proceeds to construction of a new diesel, based on a 1994 Jenbach-built donor loco.