The Big "Large Prairie" Appeal!

Returning 5164 to service.

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Keeping our locomotives in fine fettle requires lots of things: people, money, goods, equipment and so on. Why not see if there's something you can do to help? You'll be surprised how diverse our needs are!

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Charitable Status & Gift Aid

The EMF now has Charitable status and can also accept Gift Aid!

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Who are we?

There are many volunteers who give up their time freely to ensure our two locomotives continue to run who come from all walks of life.

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Erlestoke Manor Fund

Welcome to our website. Here you can find out all about our two locomotives Erlestoke Manor and Bradley Manor, who both reside at the Severn Valley Railway.

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Upcoming Events

2024 Running

7812 Erlestoke Manor will be resident and running on the Severn Valley Railway until the end of April, before visiting the Bluebell Railway’s Gala from 10^th to 12^th May. Following this 7812 will visit the West Somerset Railway on hire until the end of October. We will aim to publishing planned running dates on our Facebook and Twitter pages

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July 2024

Summer 2024 News Update

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January 2024

New Year 2024 News Update

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The Big "Large Prairie" Appeal - Returning 5164 to service

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Welcome to the Erlestoke Manor Fund

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Formed in 1973 EMF was successful in the rescue through fund raising and purchase of firstly Erlestoke Manor and later Bradley Manor from Woodham’s scrap yard in Barry, South Wales. Having been cast aside by British Railways as surplus and outmoded at the end of 1965, 7812 was rescued in 1974 and 7802 in 1979.

Once saved the fund’s attention focussed on returning 7812 to working order an aim which was achieved in 1979. Initially purchased solely for spare parts the fund was encouraged to restore 7802 to working order a practical and financial feat which was achieved in 1993. Since then both locomotives have proved their usefulness in regular heritage railway service.

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Continued good progress on a number of fronts this week: The cab roof for 5164 was delivered back from blast cleaning and spray priming to Tyseley today, along with a number of components for the tank for new build tender T2329, most notably the long side sheets. The presence of a crane also allowed us to turn the tender well tank back over following drilling of the required holes in its base, so it is now back the right way up ready for the frames to receive it when ready.Meanwhile at Bewdley, the fine weather was taken advantage of to allow the repainting of GUV 86105 (aka The Sales Coach!) to further progress.Finally, our friends in the 4253 Locomotive Company down in Kent have continued to make good progress with the new build bunker for 5164 ... See MoreSee Less

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Tuesdays continue to be primarily new build tender days for the EMF volunteer gang at Tyseley. Ahead of the chassis moving into the main workshops, a raft of enabling activities were taking place today.We'll be having the day off on Saturday as it's the SVR Autumn Steam Gala, for which our Sales Coach at Bewdley will be open every day, so please do call by if you are visiting Bewdley Station! ... See MoreSee Less

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While the EMF Sales Coach is getting spruced up outside, we have some interesting items for sale inside for the SVR Autumn Steam Gala. From recent donations, we have a small stock of locos and railway lamps. We also have a replica Dinmore Manor cab number. Sadly, the numbers aren’t interchangeable or we would have sold it as02! It will go on sale in the shop on Friday. However, we are happy to receive offers via FB Messenger if you can’t get to Bewdley if you are keen to buy it. Our thanks to Mike Solloway to whom this was offered for agreeing that we sell this for EMF funds. ... See MoreSee Less

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Having watched our friends at TLW carry out all day mega shunts over the years, we thought about joining in on the action. With multiple projects running in tandem, the need to speed up component cleaning and preparation for rectification was growing. To try and combat this, we've teamed up with a shot blasting company to process the items. Unfortunately we can't do this on site so we have to send them away for shot blasting and priming. A full day was had shunting items around the various turntable roads and loading the lorry in a giant game of tetris.Sent away items include: - 5164 cab roof and various components from the compensation braking system. - two new built tender sides, all 21ft of them. Associated steel angle iron & various fabricated steel panels. - Cab roof from 2885. Whilst we had access to the crane, the tender sump was rotated over so that further work can be carried out on the underside. Followed by moving the 4000 gallon tender into the tent for dry storage, pending further assessment. Today's working party attendees certainly earned their ☕📸 C.Field ... See MoreSee Less

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