Great Western Railway 4-6-0 No. 5029 'Nunney Castle'
Crewe, Cheshire, UK 		Location: LNWR Heritage
Status: Operational
Posted: Apr 17, 2025 @ 12:04:05 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle", has worked her first mainline charter for the first time since 2015, working a private special for her owner and the head of Locomotive Services Ltd from Bristol to Kingswear and back.
Posted: Apr 11, 2025 @ 05:04:58 by Russell Newman
Instead of going to the Severn Valley Railway for testing and running-in trials, mainline testing on ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle", is now underway as the locomotive is being bedded in and tested on a series of mainline test runs between Crewe and Chester in the coming weeks.
Posted: Apr 7, 2025 @ 12:04:18 by Russell Newman
The overhaul and rebuild on ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle", has now been completed as the locomotive is now operational again as No. 5029 has been unveiled fully complete and painted in 1940s Great Western Railway Brunswick Green livery with G W on her newly built new flat sided Hawksworth style tender. No. 5029 will now start being tested and have running-in trials first before taking to the mainline and heritage railway circuit from this year.
Posted: Feb 11, 2025 @ 06:02:03 by Russell Newman
A milestone was reached in the overhaul and rebuild on ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle", as the newly rebuilt boiler was reunited and placed back onto the frames of the locomotive. No. 5029 is now in its final stages of its overhaul and rebuild and is set to return to the mainline and heritage railway circuit during 2025.
Posted: Apr 26, 2024 @ 06:04:19 by Russell Newman
With the overhaul and rebuild on ex LNER A2 Pacific No. 60532 "Blue Peter", now completed, work on the overhaul and rebuild on ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle", has now picked up at LNWR Heritage at Crewe as the locomotive has been moved over to the spot in the workshop relinquished by No. 60532 for work to continue.
Posted: Sep 17, 2023 @ 05:09:22 by Russell Newman
With the overhaul and rebuild on ex LNER A2 Pacific No. 60532 "Blue Peter" now in its final stages, work is now picking up on the overhaul and rebuild on ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle" at LNWR Heritage at Crewe. As work continues on the boiler with the new improved later pattern tree-row superheater is being fitted, and the new set of middle cylinders soon to be fitted, and the mainline safty systerms have been up graded. No. 5029 will soon be lifted off her wheels to have all of her axle boxes checked. Locomotive Services Ltd. hopes to have "Nunney Castle" back out on the mainline and heritage railway circuit again by the end of summer 2024.
Posted: Sep 12, 2022 @ 13:09:03 by Russell Newman
The overhaul and rebuild on ex GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 No. 5029 "Nunney Castle" back to mainline standards is progressing at LNWR Heritage at Crewe as the brand new set of middle cylinders have been cast and are yet to be machined and a brand new flat sided Hawksworth tender tank has been built to replace the Collett style tender as it was badly corroded. But the new tender tank is an accurate reflection of the BR era.
Posted: Jun 16, 2021 @ 09:06:06 by Russell Newman
No. 5029’s overhaul and rebuild is underway and is a big job but will pick up when the overhaul’s on both No. 70000 "Britannia" and No. 60532 "Blue Pter" are completed. No. 5029’s middile cylinder block needs replacing so a new one will be casted along with work on the mainframes of the locomotive. A new firbox crown has been made and the boiler is in the boiler shop at Crewe awaiting work. 5029’s tender has been moved to Tyseley locomotive works having a brand new tender tank made and fitted and having work on its bottom end referbished. It will be a few years until we see 5029 back in steam again.
Posted: Jun 3, 2020 @ 06:06:01 by Russell Newman
No. 5029 is having some modification work being done to her boiler during her overhaul. As a new improved later pattern tree-row superheater is being fitted to her boiler which will help with the locomotive’s steaming and performance on the mainline more when she returns from her current overhaul.
Posted: Jun 10, 2019 @ 05:06:16 by Russell Newman
Work on No. 5029 is progressing slowly as her boiler is in the main boiler shop at Crewe being worked on. But work on the locomotive is on hold but I was told it will pickup when work on 60532 nears completion.
Posted: Feb 27, 2016 @ 17:02:00 by Russell Newman
From whats been said in Steam Railway Magazine 5029 will need a lot more work done on her then first thought so it take a few years for her to steam again.
Posted: Oct 28, 2015 @ 07:10:30 by Russell Newman
Work on 5029 is now under way and the locomotive should be back running in 2016.
Posted: Feb 21, 2015 @ 17:02:44 by Russell Newman
5029 has been moved to Crewe where it has been put in to storage to wait to have repairs done.