Just a reminder that the CFPS AGM will take place at the Grant Arms in Ramsbottom at 12oo on January 23rd 2010. More details in Whistler No: 111 which should be available to members around mid December.
Also CFPS 2010 Calendars are also available at £12 + £2. They will be also available on the December 19th tour to Leeds featuring 40145. The calendar features this rather fine picture of a steaming D393:
As you know D335 has been sidelined since May with a bogie problem.
The full extent of the damage cannot be established until the loco body is lifted from its bogies.
In order to do so, we required 2 accommodation bogies to rest the body on whilst the current bogies on the loco could be worked on.
We had only one bogie in our “storeroom” and with having two locomotives, this was not really the best ratio !
We decided to make enquiries amongst the other class 40 owners to see if we could loan a class 40 bogie from anyone.
My first contact was with Gary Hinson at The CFA, The Class 40 Appeal. His response was quick and positive.
He advised that they had two spare class 40 bogies and stated that they would be happy to lend one of them to The CFPS to enable us to carry out the required repairs to D335.
Having been advised that they had TWO spare bogies, I asked the question, “rather than a loan, would they please consider selling it to us instead” ?.
Gary did not dismiss the idea and thought that a sale may help them finance their efforts to repair the bogie cracks on D212.
He put our enquiry to Paul Hill, who like Gary, responded promptly and positively.
Arrangements were then made to view the bogies and David Peacock and myself travelled to The Midland Railway centre last Saturday, 14/11/09 and met up with the CFA lads.
After an inspection, a verbal offer was made to purchase one of the bogies and our respective valuations were very similar.
This enabled a transaction to be concluded swiftly and in total harmony.
At present the bogie is well out of the way and a lot of shunting is required to enable its removal from site.
The required shunting will take place soon and arrangements are now in hand to conclude the financial side of the transaction.
Transport will then be arranged and it is anticipated that the Class 40 Bogie should arrive at The East Lancs Railway prior to Christmas.
The bogie purchase will be beneficial to The CFPS and The CFA and should result in repairs to both D335 and D212 moving a big step closer.
The CFA were very understanding of our problems and considerate with there asking price.
They could have tried to take advantage of our difficulties and asked for a far higher purchase price.
They did not do so and Great Credit should be given to Paul Hill and Gary Hinson for being honourable.
The CFPS thank them for their prompt and valuable assistance.
Regards.
John Stephens
Dear All,
As some of you may have heard there are plans afoot to run a 2 day tour to Cornwall with the DTG .
A large amount of work has been put into trying to get an interesting spec allied to a reasonable quote to run the tour.
It is proposed to run on the 15th/16th May as follows:
15th
40145 from the North West via Birmingham, Oxford, Swindon to Westbury
D1015 + 40145 in TANDEM Westbury-Plymouth
40145 Top n Tail D1015
Plymouth-Penzance (Break) Penzance-Truro-Falmouth-Truro-Penzance
40145 Leading into Penzance
16th
40145 Top n Tail D1015
Penzance-St Ives-Penzance (Break) Penzance-Par-Newquay-Plymouth
40145 on rear out of Penzance so that it leads into Falmouth and Newquay
D1015 + 40145 in TANDEM Plymouth-either Bristol, Westbury or Oxford for 40145 solo forward.
This tour is being promoted by the CFPS with the DTG’s support. This is an extremely ambitious but very interesting tour and we need to know what the level of interest is for this to run as we do not want to proceed only to find that we have to cancel because of lack of interest and incur the cost of cancellation. The DTG will also be emailing out this request so please only reply to one, preferably the group through which you would intend to book.
This will be a two day tour so you have to start looking in the region of £120 in standard as the cost of the tour.
We are seeking expressions of interest at booking on the Tour to try to establish if it is viable
If you are intending to book via The DTG Please reply to m.j.streetATbtinternet.com (replace AT with @)
If you intend to book via The CFPS please reply to chairmanATcfps.co.uk (replace AT with @)
The aim is to arrive in Penzance on Saturday afternoon and allow a reasonable break before the trip out to Falmouth.
Those not wanting to do Falmouth on the Saturday night and St Ives on the Sunday morning can then have extended time in Penzance.
Many thanks
John
A REMINDER that there are still some of you who haven’t yet booked on the December 19th Tour who are entitled to a £10.00 reduction off the advertised fare.
The £10.00 reduction is in ADDITION to the £5.00 reduction off the fare if you are joining the train at Crewe (see below)
The £10.00 reduction has been offered by Pathfinder Tours as a goodwill gesture to those people who booked on the October 3rd Donnington Tour which was later cancelled.
It is only applicable to those people who booked on the October 3rd tour and can ONLY be used on the December 19th Tour.
It is NOT Transferable to another train OR another person !!
If you are one of those people who haven’t yet booked, please bear in mind that the “use it or lose it” principle will apply !
We have only recently been advised of the £5 reduction for those passengers boarding at Crewe. Therefore if you have booked on this tour and you are boarding at Crewe then you will receive a £5 refund on the day. This will save Gordon and Jackie asking people to resend cheques etc.
Hope to see you all on the Tour when the next issue off The Whistler is planned to be ready and any remaining 2010 CFPS Calendars will be sold.
Regards
John
Just a reminder that replica Class 40 Nameplate orders are still being processed.
The latest one,LANCASTRIA,was delivered on Monday and its journey from the Leicester based Manufacturer was
via Doncaster to The Customer in Wigan, indicating that we can deliver anywhere !
The Delivery involved 6 handovers with Steve Willis, Bernie Mcdonough and myself being 3 of the six.
The nameplate is pictured at Manchester Piccadilly being held by Bernard Mcdonough who brought it from Doncaster and a lady named Shelly who was taking it on to Wigan for delivery to CFPS Member, Eric Davies.
The Nameplate looks very impressive and attracted a lot of interest at the Station in the evening rush hour, though the bag being used to transport it might have had something to do with it !
If any member wishes to purchase a replica nameplate, they are the original size and can be supplied for £275.
Delivery time from ordering is around 6 to 8 weeks.
Proceeds from the sale of any replica nameplate will go towards financing the cost of D335s repairs.
Sales activity is being stepped up in an effort to obtain funds for the repairs and the two Headboards from this years CFPS tours are also going to be put up for sale.
The plates being, The East Lancs Ambassador and The East Lancs Crusader.
Offers are being invited first from CFPS members and if none are forthcoming the plates will then be put on ebay.
cheers
John.
100 copies of The NEW CFPS CALENDAR are now being printed.
The 13 colour images are as follows.
COVER 40092. Castleton. 1981.
JAN 40163. Mobberley. 1979
FEB 40031. Royton. 1979
March D393. Darlington 1967
April 40120. Disley 1981
MAY 40145. Timperley 1982
JUNE 40004. Grange 1977
( 40051 also in pic)
JULY 40145. Penzance 2009
AUG 40170. Blackpool 1982
SEP 40099. Colwyn Bay 1981
OCT 40194 Ellesmere Port 1984
NOV 40015 Salop 1982
DEC 40198 Diggle 1981
Prices are £12 each + £2 postage.
NOTE that for now ONLY 100 copies have been produced.
Members have first option to purchase them now but if sales are slow, they will be promoted on ebay and hopefully also reviewed in the railway press.
Those not sold prior to the Tour will be on sale on the December 19th Tour.
If they all get sold quickly, we will consider a reprint, if the interest justifies it.
Please bear in mind we are looking to earn funds to help finance the repairs of D335.
cheers
John
A few items are now for sale on the CFPS Ebay website.
Have a look here
or go to Ebay and search for ‘class40preservationsociety’
The following Whistler mag back issues are in stock, ALL A5 size.
7, 8,
10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,
40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49,
50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59,
ALL of THE ABOVE issues up to and including number 59 are £1.00 each.
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60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69,
70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76,
88, 89,
90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99,
ALL of issue numbers 60 to 99 are £ 2.00 each.
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101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110.
ALL of ISSUE numbers 101 to 110 are £ 3.00 each
EXCEPT issue number 100 which is a SPECIAL CENTENARY EDITION.
It was produced in A4 size and contained a photograph of each one of the 200 class members.
That book is priced at £12.50 but we sell that at events at £10.00 special offer and will do so now if anyone wants to purchase a copy.
Thats all of the old stuff, except for having a few of the old small cardboard rail tour tickets.
Hope some or all of that lot is of some interest to someone
cheers
John Stephens
Later than intended but a few months back, I visited “Butterworth Towers” and collected 8 cartons of old CFPS publications.
I have now been through the cartons and sorted them all out into seperate items.
There are small amounts of each item and they are in good condition.
The list of the items are as follows :-
A5 size, 4 page cover with 16 inner pages titled “FORTIES in 1981″
( A guide to passenger trains booked for a class 40 in 1981 )
A5 size, 4 page cover with 16 inner pages titled “WHISTLERS over AIS GILL”
( a listing of class 40s numbers that worked passenger trains on the S and C in the period late 78 to Sep 79.
A4 size 14 pages stapled together titled “MIDLAND FORTIES”
( a listing of class 40s sighted mainly in the Midlands and some details of headcodes of parcels traffic workings. )
Also included are the following RAILTOUR ITINERYS and TIMING Sheets. ALL these are A4 size stapled at the head, not booklet form
17/04/82. The Fenman. 16 pages.
04/09/82. The North Countryman. 16 pages.
18/09/82. The Christmas Cracker. 14 pages.
05/03/83. The Silver Jubilee. 18 pages.
24/07/83. The Broadsman. 20 pages.
10/09/83. The Ayrshire Ranger 22 pages.
17/12/83. The Christmas Cracker 2. 22 pages.
10/03/84. The North Briton. 20 pages.
22/07/84. The Cambrian Coast Express 26 pages.
22/09/84. The Conwy-Forth Express 18 pages.
15/12/84. The Christmas Cracker 3. 22 pages.
All are in very good condition .
If anyone wishes to obtain copies of any of the above, the cost will be £1 for each title. Please add an extra quid to cover cost of packing and for postage.
Needless to say, the proceeds received will go towards the costs of repairing 335. Plans for the repair of the loco are now being prepared.
Also in the cartons were back issues of the early Whistler Magazines.
Im close to sorting all of these out and a complete list of whats available in back issues of the Whistler Magazines will be issued in the next couple of days.
cheers for now.
John
During the weekend of October 17th and 18th, The ELR held their Autumn Diesel Gala.
On the Sunday of the same weekend, The Draw for the CFPS Annual Raffle took place on Bury Bolton Street Station in front of 40145 when it paused for a station stop.
Several tickets needed folding prior to the draw taking place and help with this thankless task was provided by:-
Karl Crowther, Bernie McDonough, Nigel Bryers, David Flood,
Andy Sparks, Eric Davies, Rob Peters and new CFPS life member David Loughhead.
Thank you to each of you chaps for your most welcome assistance with this finger numbing task.
The CFPS had a Sales Stand on the platform at Bury for both days of the Diesel Gala.
On the Saturday,
Mark Hornby and Dave Wood put in a full days stint helping me out.
Steve Jones and Rob Peters also helped out for a fair chunk of the day.
On Sunday,
Rob Peters, Karl Crowther, Eric Davies and Steve Jones returned to assist again and brave the cold.
Grant Marks and David Loughhead gave up there Sunday afternoon to give their assistance,which was particularly welcome when it came to packing up, as the temperature was dropping quickly at that point.
Needless to say Andy Walton was beavering away as ever over the weekend. He shared his time between Secondman duties for the ELR, helping us with Sales and also storming down the trains selling raffle tickets.
A super effort as always from Andy but THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED DURING THE COURSE OF THE WEEKEND.
It is appreciated and it is needed as we try hard to obtain funds for the Society and awareness of our objectives.
Regards
John Stephens
