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45118 The Royal Artilleryman

 

  

Updated 2/4/11

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman was moved up into the paint shop at RVEL in Derby during February. The repaired generator has seen further attention at Derby by representatives from the company who did the repairs and it is planned for the generator to be refitted into 45118 at the beginning of April. Once the main generator has been refitted, replacement cables between the main generator and the control cubicle that were cut through by metal thieves will be fitted.

 

 

Updated 3/3/11

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has had little work completed on it recently and resides in the middle of the yard at RVEL Derby. The loco is worked only been worked on in fits and starts, around other work that RVEL have been contracted to do. The overhauled generator is awaiting a visit from the company who made the repair as further work is required.

 

 

Updated 7/10/10

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has had little work completed on it recently but has been moved up from the middle of the yard to the main RVEL shed at Derby. The locos generator has been returned from repair in Liverpool but not all of the required work on it has been completed. 

 

 

Updated 8/8/10

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has had little work completed recently and resides in the middle of the yard at RVEL in Derby. The locos generator is still away in Liverpool under repair. Some repairs have been made inside the loco to damage caused by the theft of copper cable. Some bodywork repairs have been completed on the corroded bodywork with more work required.

 

 

Updated 3/6/10

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has had little work completed recently and rests in the yard at RVEL Derby. The locos generator is still in Liverpool under repair and repairs to some of the damage caused by the theft of copper cable have been completed inside the loco. Some work has been completed on the corroded bodywork with more work required.

 

 

Updated 7/4/10

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has work undertaken on it as time allows at RVEL in Derby. The locos generator is at a contractor in Liverpool under repair and some of the repairs to damage caused by the theft of copper cable having been completed in the loco. Work has started on the corroded bodywork with areas cut out and new patches waiting to be welded back into the loco.

 

 

Updated 6/2/10

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has had some work undertaken on it at RVEL in Derby in recent weeks to repair damage caused by the theft of copper cable it suffered over a year ago. The generator is under repair off site but most of the copper cables that were cut off have been replaced. Several patches of corroded bodywork have been cut out and new patches wait being welded back to the loco. Work to repair the fire damaged traction motor that was the cause of the locos withdrawal on 9th May 1987 is also to be undertaken. When 45118 was preserved it was found that during the locos final bogie swap at Derby someone did not tighten up the bolts on the traction motor cable properly. As a consequence the connections to the traction motor overheated and the cables burnt back into the conduit although the traction motor itself is serviceable. As a consequence, 45118 operated on 5 traction motors during its time hauling services at the Northampton and Lamport Railway.

 

 

Updated 5/12/09

 

Work has begun to repair damage caused by the theft of copper cable suffered over a year and covered by insurance. The loco has had the roof above the exhaust silencer removed and the silencer found to be badly corroded, although this repair work is outside of that of the insurance claim

 

 

Updated 5/10/09

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman moved to the RVEL workshops in Derby (part of the old Technical Centre) on Monday 3rd August. 45118 was loaded on to the lorry at the Northampton and Lamport Railway at lunchtime and following arrival at Derby was positioned just outside of the shed and visible from passing trains heading to/from Long Eaton. The date of the locos movement to Derby was exactly a year to the day following the damage caused by cable theft. An ex-loco condition nameplate (minus the crest) from the loco was auctioned at the Sheffield Railwayana Auctions, held in Derby on 12th September and was sold for £4100.

 

 

Updated 3/8/09

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has moved from the Northampton and Lamport Railway to RVEL in Derby for insurance repairs to damage caused by cable theft last year on Monday 3rd August.

 

 

Updated 6/6/09

 

The insurance claim over the copper cable theft to 45118 The Royal Artilleryman at the Northampton and Lamport Railway is still on going.

 

Updated 4/4/09

 

The insurance claim over the copper cable theft to 45118 The Royal Artilleryman at the Northampton and Lamport Railway is still on-going.

 

Updated 1/2/09

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman remains securely locked up in the sidings at Northampton whilst an insurance claim is investigated. Since the loco was broken into and many of the copper cables were removed by a metal thief, the culprit has been caught. The individual was arrested removing cable on the West Coast mainline and using DNA evidence was found to be responsible for the cable theft on locos at Northampton. It is understood that a quote for the work to repair the loco is been put together by RVEL.

 

Updated 5/12/08

 

45118 The Royal Artilleryman has not been revisited by metal thieves since scrap metal prices dropped significantly with the loco remaining securely locked up in the sidings at Northampton whilst an insurance claim is investigated.

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