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Wrong Type Of Wheels...

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Coxster

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... for the Watercress Line's Class 205 ;)

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Bob, and Pete on his first day as a shed volunteer, offer up the new buffer-beam for the tender of #45379 prior to bolting it in place. This will stiffen the structure ready for rivetting stretchers and inner frames in position.

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Two steam cranes in the yard to replace some wheels on the DEMU 'Hampshire Unit' 205025 - 45-ton to hold up the heavy generator end, and the 10-ton to lift the bogie from its wheels.

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All very interesting to watch, but frustratingly "They're the wrong axles; the bearings are a different size, and the wheels are the wrong diameter" - Jim Lawrence tells Colin Chambers (MHRplc Chairman and MD) who was driving the smaller crane.

"We'll have to put the old ones back in" (Movie 2.1MB 11 Jan 06).

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