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After a few years away we welcomed the Sutton Collection of locomotives plus the Coal Truck back to Tyseley to take up residence in our \"new\" Loco Shed. This picture shows the appropriately names Sutton Flyer in mid-air ...

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In preparation for receiving the fleet of SMR locomotives back at Tyseley we've increased our secure storage capacity with the addition of a \"new\" 40ft container.

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We are gradually icreasing our tooling capacity with the acquisition of an air compressor and needle gun. Here we see Jake diligently needle-gunning the metal underframe of our coach to remove previous layers of paint an...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/new-tools","title":"New Tools","summary":"We are gradually icreasing our tooling capacity with the acquisition of an air compressor and needle gun. Here we see Jake diligently needle-gunning the metal underframe of our coach to remove previous layers of paint an...","date_modified":"2026-04-06T09:23:30Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/p-way-progress","html_content":"

Following acquisition of some ballast we have now started the task of applying it around the yard, beginning with the access sidings to our container. As we are limited to hand-tools and a wheelbarrow it will take some t...

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As 2026 starts we press on with work on restoring our covered carriage in the brightly lit container whilst the dark, wet, cold nights continue outside!

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/new-year-new-focus","title":"New Year, New Focus - Carriage Refurbishment","summary":"As 2026 starts we press on with work on restoring our covered carriage in the brightly lit container whilst the dark, wet, cold nights continue outside!","date_modified":"2026-01-16T15:07:53Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/new-home-project-phase-1-now-complete","html_content":"

After months of waiting, we have finally welcomed our long-lost container/engine shed into the compound. We can now start working again on our carriage rennovation project, as well as getting our petrol railcar, \"Dudley\"...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/new-home-project-phase-1-now-complete","title":"New Home Project (Phase 1) now complete!","summary":"After months of waiting, we have finally welcomed our long-lost container/engine shed into the compound. We can now start working again on our carriage rennovation project, as well as getting our petrol railcar, \"Dudley\"...","date_modified":"2025-07-03T15:18:48Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/the-day-closes-on-more-hard-work","html_content":"

Yesterday evening marked the end of a 10-month project to sort by hand a pile of 1km worth of track from the ex-Rhiw Valley Railway. As can be seen it is all now neatly stacked in rows for easy identifiction and retrieva...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/the-day-closes-on-more-hard-work","title":"The day closes on more hard work....","summary":"Yesterday evening marked the end of a 10-month project to sort by hand a pile of 1km worth of track from the ex-Rhiw Valley Railway. As can be seen it is all now neatly stacked in rows for easy identifiction and retrieva...","date_modified":"2025-05-23T15:38:41Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/whats-the-point","html_content":"

We have started work on rennovating points which haven't worked for nearly two years and also need to be able to match up with our existing permanent way scheme. Currently the set of points featured do not - they are fit...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/whats-the-point","title":"What's The Point?","summary":"We have started work on rennovating points which haven't worked for nearly two years and also need to be able to match up with our existing permanent way scheme. Currently the set of points featured do not - they are fit...","date_modified":"2025-05-12T15:36:28Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/can-you-help-us","html_content":"

We’re looking for a volunteer to help raise much-needed funds which will go to finance the renovation of the historical Sutton Collection and construction of our brand-new miniature railway at Tyseley.

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/can-you-help-us","title":"Can you help us?","summary":"We’re looking for a volunteer to help raise much-needed funds which will go to finance the renovation of the historical Sutton Collection and construction of our brand-new miniature railway at Tyseley.","date_modified":"2025-03-21T15:13:14Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/making-new-friends-learning-new-skills","html_content":"

Last Saturday (8th March) a group of us visited Perrygrove Railway in Gloucestershire to help them with some track re-laying. Not only was it an opportunity for us to learn new techniques on permanent way-work from a ver...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/making-new-friends-learning-new-skills","title":"Making New Friends & Learning New Skills","summary":"Last Saturday (8th March) a group of us visited Perrygrove Railway in Gloucestershire to help them with some track re-laying. Not only was it an opportunity for us to learn new techniques on permanent way-work from a ver...","date_modified":"2025-03-10T09:09:30Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/sutton-belle-appeal","html_content":"

The overhaul of the world's only Douglas Clayton Atlantic, \"Sutton Belle\" has progressed up to a point, but we have now reached the stage where we need to raise the final £25,000 in order to complete the restoration. Thi...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/sutton-belle-appeal","title":"The Unique \"Sutton Belle\" Appeal","summary":"The overhaul of the world's only Douglas Clayton Atlantic, \"Sutton Belle\" has progressed up to a point, but we have now reached the stage where we need to raise the final £25,000 in order to complete the restoration. Thi...","date_modified":"2025-03-04T09:36:42Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/building-a-railway---project-1-completed","html_content":"

Last night (20th Feb) we completed the construction of our first length of working line which provides us the ability to move rails and sleepers from where they were originally put to a more orderly and structured storag...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/building-a-railway---project-1-completed","title":"Building A Railway - Project 1 Completed","summary":"Last night (20th Feb) we completed the construction of our first length of working line which provides us the ability to move rails and sleepers from where they were originally put to a more orderly and structured storag...","date_modified":"2025-02-21T09:43:18Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/building-a-railway---progress-update","html_content":"

As the dark nights continue we have now laid two lengths of ex-Rhiw Valley track and have completed the conversion of two \"toast-rack\" coaches into flat wagons, and have re-railed the first one for rail & sleeper movemen...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/building-a-railway---progress-update","title":"\"Building a Railway\" - Progress update","summary":"As the dark nights continue we have now laid two lengths of ex-Rhiw Valley track and have completed the conversion of two \"toast-rack\" coaches into flat wagons, and have re-railed the first one for rail & sleeper movemen...","date_modified":"2025-01-24T10:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/building-a-railway-has-begun","html_content":"

On the first, dark but dry working Thursday evening of 2025 we finally managed to start laying our first lengths of track which are to be used to help move all our remaining lengths of track rail from their current posit...

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Following a period of heavy rain the team soldiered on sorting the track lengths out so we can easily find what we want when we come to start laying the permenant way. We will also need to sort out drainage on the site s...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/soggy-track-sort","title":"Soggy Track Sort","summary":"Following a period of heavy rain the team soldiered on sorting the track lengths out so we can easily find what we want when we come to start laying the permenant way. We will also need to sort out drainage on the site s...","date_modified":"2024-08-16T15:05:06Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/stock-move-complete","html_content":"

We've now finally completed the move of all the rolling stock into our new yard. All that is left now is to get our 40-ft workshop container installed so that we can re-start our rennovation program on the carriages. as ...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/stock-move-complete","title":"Stock move complete!","summary":"We've now finally completed the move of all the rolling stock into our new yard. All that is left now is to get our 40-ft workshop container installed so that we can re-start our rennovation program on the carriages. as ...","date_modified":"2024-07-26T13:37:06Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/rolling-stock-moving-into-its-new-home","html_content":"

We have now progressed onto the transfer of the rolling stock from the confines of the car park into our new compound. This will now give us the opportunity to re-commence our renovation work on them as well as providing...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/rolling-stock-moving-into-its-new-home","title":"Rolling Stock Moving Into its New Home","summary":"We have now progressed onto the transfer of the rolling stock from the confines of the car park into our new compound. This will now give us the opportunity to re-commence our renovation work on them as well as providing...","date_modified":"2024-07-12T13:30:44Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/another-step-towards-moving-into-our-new-home","html_content":"

Thanks to great team work Thursday night we managed to extract Petrol Railcar No.4 out of the container and onto a trailer for its journey to Denver Light Railway Ltd's works for final repairs to its fuel system. Two car...

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/another-step-towards-moving-into-our-new-home","title":"Another step towards moving into our new home","summary":"Thanks to great team work Thursday night we managed to extract Petrol Railcar No.4 out of the container and onto a trailer for its journey to Denver Light Railway Ltd's works for final repairs to its fuel system. Two car...","date_modified":"2024-06-21T09:43:01Z"},{"id":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/getting-ready-to-move-into-our-new-home","html_content":"

Excitement is mounting as we prepare to complete the move into our new home within Tyseley Locomotive Works Depot.

","url":"https://tmrp.uk/tmr-blog/f/getting-ready-to-move-into-our-new-home","title":"Getting Ready to move into our New Home","summary":"Excitement is mounting as we prepare to complete the move into our new home within Tyseley Locomotive Works Depot.","date_modified":"2024-06-18T08:03:45Z"}]}