Class 507 preservation society.

[Chris 1980]

The fundraiser is cooking with gas now, a quarter of the target having been raised at £2,500. Most encouraging for a fortnight's work, with 44 days still remaining for the rest.

We are just over the £3,000 mark now!

If the tour is also supposedly now postponed until September, they might well extend the crowdfunder to run even longer so that more can be raised.

 

[37114]

We are just over the £3,000 mark now!

If the tour is also supposedly now postponed until September, they might well extend the crowdfunder to run even longer so that more can be raised.

Glad for you that the donations are creeping up, keeping the crowdfunder open for longer is definitely worthwhile as the transport is the easy bit!

 

[gazthomas]

Has 507001 been subject to an operational incident recently

 

[Lucy1501]

Has 507001 been subject to an operational incident recently

A friend sent me this image. Appears to have happened at West Kirby. Fingers crossed it isn't too damaged!

 

[Forty29]

Didn't l read somewhere this unit has been brought for £1 from Angel trains to prevent it going to the scrapyard. A home for it has been found apparently. Apologies if l have it confused with another unit.

 

[SuperLuke2334]

Didn't l read somewhere this unit has been brought for £1 from Angel trains to prevent it going to the scrapyard. A home for it has been found apparently. Apologies if l have it confused with another unit.

Yes correct. Providing the money is raised for the road transport it's going to the Tanat Valley Light Railway in Shropshire.

 

[43096]

Didn't l read somewhere this unit has been brought for £1 from Angel trains to prevent it going to the scrapyard. A home for it has been found apparently. Apologies if l have it confused with another unit.

Which to my mind means that Angel have donated the unit, with the £1 just a symbolic value to effect the ownership transfer. It’s a pity the 507 Preservation Society hasn’t recognised this generosity from Angel - their press releases do not mention it. The ROSCOs are under no obligation to support preservation efforts, yet they have done so for many years - the least those organisations benefiting from it can do is to at recognise that support.

 

[prod_pep]

Fantastic to see the 507001 crowdfunder has raised over three-quarters of the target now with over a month still to run. A little publicity has gone a long way it seems and it looks more and more likely this fine unit will be spared the cutter's torch.

 

[birchesgreen]

Its got some good publicity, even appeared in my local (Birmingham) newspaper's facebook news feed!

 

[prod_pep]

It's there! Over £10,000 has been raised in less than a month to secure 507001's road move into preservation. What a superb result.

Remind me, how much did you think they'd raise again, Bertie?

 

[birchesgreen]

Fantastic achievement, i think it was about 2K when i donated so i wasn't sure if it would make it...

Lets hope its just the start of a bright future for the unit.

 

[12LDA28C]

It's there! Over £10,000 has been raised in less than a month to secure 507001's road move into preservation. What a superb result.

Remind me, how much did you think they'd raise again, Bertie?

Just heard a news item on Radio 2 confirming this. Some great publicity there.

 

[theblackwatch]

Just heard a news item on Radio 2 confirming this. Some great publicity there.

Also on BBC1 news at 1pm. So who has bought the unit, the Class 507 Preservation Society, or an individual?

 

[Magdalia]

Also on BBC1 news at 1pm.

The story is on the BBC News website here:

Liverpool: Man buys 1970s train for £1 to save it from scrap

Robert Hampton now hopes to raise the £10,000 needed to move it to a railway museum in Shropshire.

www.bbc.co.uk

A rail enthusiast has bought a 1970s train for £1 in a bid to save it from the scrapheap.

Robert Hampton, 41, now hopes to raise £10,000 to move the Merseyrail Class 507 train to a museum.

Earlier it was in the top 10 most read stories.

 

[Neil Polo]

Excellent news.

 

[Chris 1980]

It's there! Over £10,000 has been raised in less than a month to secure 507001's road move into preservation. What a superb result.

Remind me, how much did you think they'd raise again, Bertie?

Amazing achievement!!

Let's hope it has a very bright and long future in preservation for many decades to come!

Brilliant news!

 

[Mollington St]

Not jumping the gun here - But the 507 Preservation Group have just accepted the offer of a space at the forthcoming North West Railway and Transport Collectors Fair ( Please see the attached flyer with all details ) to present them selves and be there in person to discuss the short and long term plans for 507 001 .
A great opportunity to find out first hand what is happening now fellow enthusiasts and the public have helped them reach the initial total required to have the Unit moved .

 

[357]

Not going to lie, I am impressed by these guys.

They certainly seem to have more of an idea what they are doing than some other groups such as the 315 group.

Very impressed. Hopefully they can keep up the momentum they have built.

 

[31160]

Yeah, I have to say well done them, it may not be most interesting train in the world but if all we preserved was the glamour we would have twenty A4s preserved and we don't and to me that's a good thing. Did it receive any major damage from its clang the other day or was it superficial

 

[Cowley]

Thread reopened for @MR-507508 to provide an update

 

[MR-507508]

Paths are now in on RTT for the move of 507001 (& 507029 for scrap) next Monday 6th January 2025.
507001 will be collected and transported to Derby via road.

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[StephenHunter]

It's staying in Derby until "The Greatest Gathering" in August, am I right? Heritage Railways said it was being displayed there.

 

[M28361M]

There is a landslip at Gobowen disrupting the line between Wrexham and Shrewsbury, so I suspect tomorrow’s move may be postponed again.

 

[WirralLine]

There is a landslip at Gobowen disrupting the line between Wrexham and Shrewsbury, so I suspect tomorrow’s move may be postponed again.

According to TFW, expected to be closed Shrewsbury bound until end of Monday

 

[zain_031]

There is a landslip at Gobowen disrupting the line between Wrexham and Shrewsbury, so I suspect tomorrow’s move may be postponed again.

Todays 37 movement to Birkenhead for the drag has been cancelled

 

[The_Train]

Yet another failed move! Imagine if someone, just for a moment, showed a bit of common sense and said "you know what, this contractual agreement to drag a unit destined for Derby all the way from Liverpool to South Wales first is a bit silly so lets just forget about it and move it straight to Derby"

 

[StephenHunter]

Yet another failed move! Imagine if someone, just for a moment, showed a bit of common sense and said "you know what, this contractual agreement to drag a unit destined for Derby all the way from Liverpool to South Wales first is a bit silly so lets just forget about it and move it straight to Derby"

Is there space for it at Derby right now?

 

[The_Train]

Is there space for it at Derby right now?

That doesn't particularly justify taking it on a tour of the UK

 

[43096]

Yet another failed move! Imagine if someone, just for a moment, showed a bit of common sense and said "you know what, this contractual agreement to drag a unit destined for Derby all the way from Liverpool to South Wales first is a bit silly so lets just forget about it and move it straight to Derby"

Is there not still a need to shift one other unit to Newport for an appointment with the shredder, though? So might as well send two sets as send one.

 

[simonmpoulton]

The issues I see it for moving it directly to Derby are two mainly:

First - a contract has been signed between Merseytravel to ROG to remove the total number of units to Newport - they'd breach the contract if they do not take the right number of units down there.

Second - there is no direct road access to get a unit out of Birkenhead North depot for the haulage company to collect it and take it to Derby. I believe there are gauging issues preventing it being taken by rail.

If we were still with a nationalised railway system then there wouldn't be the issues of contracts and such - it'd just get done i'm sure but i'm afraid with the fragmented part public part privatised system we have at present common sense cannot be applied!