It’s been a little while since I have reported on the progress being made on the Moseley Railway Trust’s site at Apedale, Staffordshire.
Firstly, a large, heavy and expensively-hired magnetic base drill was used to bore some large diameter holes through the bogie frame of one of our future passenger coaches.
The machine was then employed on drilling holes for the gearbox mounting on Motor Rail 5038, which needed new engine& gearbox mounting bearers after it was “restored” elsewhere and some years ago using an oxy-acetylene cutter.
