The momentous news this week is the wheeling of the locomotive on Monday 8th April at Llangollen.

The following pictures show how this was done.

On 13th April a video of the wheeling can now be watched on U Tube. Pleas click the following link

Firstly the frames were bolted onto dummy wheelsets for rolling outside

Here Mike Pierce is overseeing the fitting of an axlebox to a wheel bearing

Next the frames were lifted above the wheel sets

The wheeled chassis is run back into the shed. The first movements of Betton Grange as a rolling chassis

Finally the locomotive sits back in the shed ready for the spings to be added in the coming days