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GWR Large Prairie 4150

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The boiler: move to Bridgnorth
By January 2018 the boiler and firebox cladding had been completed and then dismantled. The boiler had passed an ultrasonic test on the thickness of the plates and passed a non-destructive test for cracks. Work had commenced on drilling out firebox steel stays and grinding off rivet heads holding the foundation ring before the boiler headed north.<ref>Howard A, 4150 Fund Facebook, 20 January 2018</ref><ref>[http://www.4150.org.uk/news/4150_jan18.html The 4150 Fund - Restoration update January 2018]</ref>
The boiler was moved from Bewdley to Bridgnorth on 18 June 2018. {{As of|2018|0407}} it is stabled in the Fund has agreed with the SVR that the boiler will go yard awaiting a move into the boiler shop in late May 2018. Once there, volunteers will continue to work on it under when the supervision boiler of paid staff[[75069]] is completed. It is anticipated that The rest of the locomotive frames will stay at Bewdley until February 2019the boiler overhaul is approaching completion, while remaining work on the bunker, cab fittings, cab floor, and then move to Bridgnorth in time to be made ready to for the boilervalve and cylinder cladding is completed.<ref>Shareholder update email, 11 April 28 July 2018</ref>
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