News
4DD Group joins the Heritage Railway Association as a Corporate Member
The 4DD Group’s application to join the Heritage Railway Association as a Corporate Member has been approved. See more about the association at Heritage Railway Association (hra.uk.com) More news on the application to follow.
News
Plans advance to move the 13004 driving cab from Northampton to Sellindge
Plans are moving forward to transport 13004 to Sellindge. There is quite a bit of shunting around of other stock at Hope Farm to be done before the move but the group hope to move 13004 before Christmas and reunite the units.
Conservation And Restoration
26th September 2021
Front frame for the 3 seat left hand side of compartment this also strengthens the super structure . Stephen Dyer and myself spent a while grinding down nut that were welded to the door frame this held the bracket that held the front 3 seat frame in place. My son Ben Read more…
13003 Driving Cab from 4002 (4902) -The other end from 13004
4002 driving cabs to be reunited.
The other surviving 4DD driving cab (13004) of unit 4002 at the Northampton Ironstone Trust is to join our driving cab (13003) at Sellindge. Regrettably all the trailer cars from the two original 4DD units and the two driving cabs from unit 4001 have been scrapped. This is the announcement Read more…
Models
Modern Traction Kits By David Deadman
David Deadman retired Driver has started to build his Modern Traction Kits 4-DD brass and white metal kit (MTK) the following pictures and text are by David. Here are some photos and captions of my Modern Traction Kits 4-DD brass and white metal kit. Having gone onto the RM web, Read more…