Shed47 Railway Restoration Group

02/11/2026

Here we have a blast from the past, a video from 2014 when the extention onto the concrete pad was laid. no diesel shed, no western extention, twas a simpler time....

01/11/2026

Good evening everyone,hope you have all recovered from what was a very good Halloween all round going by all the positive social media posts.

We were all back on site this morning for the big decoration clean up. We have now stored everything away again till next year.

Once again we'd like to thank you all for turning out last night. In the end we carried 150+ passengers which was amazing for our first Halloween event.
Please comment below or message the page with any feedback positive or negative so we can improve for next year.

We have learned a few places ourselves that we can deliver a better experience for next time.

There was a wee bit of work done today but I'm not entirely sure what, as a few of us had an early finish after the tidy up.
I know Tony got some more varnishing done on the nameplates for the DS48 and the Traggon sliding doors and in the workshop plans were being made for the next steps to happen on No29 which I believe involves running pipework.

Anyway enough of me waffling, I'm just going to dump a whole load of pictures in no particular order as there is a few. Probably a couple of uploads coming including some video.

Thanks again and we hope to see you all at the next event which will be the Xmas train in December.
Until then it's goodnight from me and goodnight from him.

Cheers the shed47 team 👍🏻

31/10/2026

Well what an amazing first ever Halloween event for us tonight and the first time we have ran trains at night.
This is just a small thank you to everyone who visited tonight, we hope you all enjoyed the experience.
I will be doing a usual Sunday update tomorrow including photos from today.

See you all tomorrow evening. 👍🏻

28/10/2026

Well folks here we are again.

We are gearing up for our first ever halloween event and are getting quite excited about it. So today saw the first of the set dressing for the comming event, a cemetery has popped up on the banking and will be expanded slightly more before the weekend. The signal box is also getting some spookyfication with window dressing among other things,

But work progressed on site over and above the fun, the joiners were busy improving the storage situation in their workshop with the addition of new shelving, another plant holder was also started. the gradient post was moved along to the woodwork shop so the guys can create a new set of boards for it to replace the damaged ones. the new boards will also show the correct gradients for our line.

The ribs on the underside of the geismar trolley have been removed due to rot and will be replaced in due course, the trolley will then be repainted and put back into use, these wee trolleys are invaluable for shifting material around.

The station ramp fence has been getting revamped over the last couple of months with Dave Jeffs taking his time replacing timber and sanding the fence down before applying primer, it is now looking a hell of a lot fresher than it did.

And the workshop were busy getting the steel work from the palvan cleaned up, lots of work still to do on it but we have a plan and are gathering the required materials for it.

And that is your lot for tonight folks, se you all on Sturday when we host our first ever Halloween spooktacular, we hope to see you there.

Cheers, The Shed 47 Team.

25/10/2026

Last Saturday a couple of us went up to Strathspey railway for a bit of steam experience since we are getting closer to No29 coming back to service.
I knocked out a quick video of the best bits of the day.
Thanks to Chris Boyd and the rest of the team at the railway for having us.
Enjoy the video.

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25/10/2026

Well that was a bit blustery today.
Luckily for the most part the rain stayed away and we got on with work around the site.
Not as many of us in today due to the weather but enough as to keep active.

Starting off in the woodwork shop the guys were busy cutting lengths of timber to assemble some basic planters that will be available for sale in shop next season, also the Traggon sliding doors got a 2nd coat of varnish as did the new saw bench.

In the shed No29 saw more action with bolt down threads for the water tank getting chased with a die nut before sourcing some good nuts.
Then the water tank balance pipe was shoogled Into place and fastened down.
We had to do a quick reroute of two lubricator pipes as once the balance pipe was in they're path was fouled. And finally some steel bolts were replaced with stainless ones on our new access panels.

Narrow gauge lifted our heavy duty rail bender to be used for some track laying in the near future.

A bit more tidying up at the west end storage area too with a track panel being fully stripped.
Unfortunately we will need to clear an area so we can neatly stack away all the rail and components. So we decided to stop and clear away more scrap metal lying around and dumped in the big skip.

Our younger volunteers were busy putting up decorations around rolling stock and building ready for the Halloween train this coming Saturday.
Check out the page for details.

Oh and we also serviced a couple of paraffin lamps ready for use.

Well I think that's it,so until Wednesday see ya later 😉

Cheers the shed47 team 👍🏻

21/10/2026

So we are back again and already half way through another week, well atleast at this rate it will be summer soon.

So todays update is brought to you by the word WET and the number 47. I shall let the pictures do the talking and the comments attached to them and thank you all once again for following the page and enjoying our updates and tomfoolery.

See you all on Sunday for the next instalment of "Dude wheres my boat".

Cheers, The Shed 47 Team,.

18/10/2026

OK folks here we go again. Sorry for the delay, I had to do the big shop before I got home.
And if I don't eat you don't get an update 😂😁

Bit of a frosty start this morning but it soon cleared up and was a glorious day on site with lots getting done.
As always for this time of year the infinite eternal flame was doing it's thang in the shed for us all to keep our mitts toasty.

The JCB was out doing a couple of jobs today.
First up was to remove the engine from the Wickham trolley and throw it in the skip for scrap. Trust us it was gubbed.
Next was to manoeuvre the trolley onto turntable so it could be in a better position to be worked on.
After this it was along to the west yard where we started cutting up metals with the gas axe that are surplus to requirements. These were then disposed of in a big RoRo skip.
The yard is starting to get a bit tidier although there is more to go.
Also a couple of the guys started to disassemble the track panels so we can start organising things around here.

Pway was out with vegetation trimming tools taking care of ferns on the embankment and a bit of strimming to start tidying up for the Halloween trains on Saturday 31st October.

The museum is also getting a bit of aakeover for the Halloween event too.

The woodwork guys were busy today too.
A couple of braces were fitted to the legs of the surfacer planer and it was having trouble keeping them together when getting moved about.
The second door was fitted to the Traggon and some rubber bump stops to cushion the opening of the doors.
And lastly some brake blocks for the narrow gauge stock.

Unaware of Narrow gauge work apart from the dismantling of track panels as I was busy doing other jobs.

Well I believe I've covered most of today's ongoings so we shall leave it there till next time.

14/10/2026

Small video of the operating Traggon door and a wee testing run of the DS48 (Trevor)

14/10/2026

Welcome one and all to the midweek update from the guys at the shed.

Well now the ever present fire was ever present which was good because it wouldn't be ever present if it wasn't present.

The joiners were very busy boys today and got through a few jobs,
First was the laminating up of some stock timber to make a thick enough block that can be used for narrow gauge brake shoes, we make these in house and they work very well indeed.
The second job was getting the new saw bench progressed which saw a pair of draw runners modified to suite and then a draw made with a partition that will store screws and spare saw blades, there is also storage down the sides for sheet material and also soft and hard wood stock.
Their third job of the day was hanging the first of the two tram doors which was accomplished after a bit of joggling. we now have one door that sits well in the runners and does what it should.

We hosted volunteers from Babcocks today who come in once a year and volunteer their time and skills to help us where ever they can, so today we put two of them to work bleeding the injector pump up on DS48 Trevor and getting it up and running whilst the other two who are fabricators marked out and then created two ports on the end of No29's water tank so we can clean it out and boy does it need it, the new ports also mean no one has to climb into the tank which is a no no for us any way. The guys did great work and were treated to steak pies for their lunch as a thankyou from us.

And that is your lot for tonight folks, we will see you all on Sunday for the next instalmet of " where the wind blows"

Cheers, The Shed 47 Team.