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Thanks to an enthusiast from Germany, Hubert Wetekamp (www.wetekamp.de/), we have received some very interesting information which has made us change the way in which we think. It relates to our Feldbahn locomotive, which in fact is not a Feldbahn as such but was originally a locomotive known as a Brigade locomotive. Whereas we have been keen to add an
appropriate tender to this locomotive which was appropriate in a Feldbahn or farming application, we have learnt through the excellent support of fellow enthusiasts in Germany that our particular locomotive, which is being restored as a First World War locomotive, was in fact used without a tender. We will not turn down an offer of a tender if we find one but in the meantime we can press on and complete our restoration in accordance with the information we have received, i.e. a Brigade locomotive is a tank engine which operated without a tender in the trenches during the First World War. Henceforth we will now refer to our locomotive as a Brigade locomotive. At such time as we acquire a tender we might allow it to go through a conversion to an agricultural locomotive, which is consistent with what would have happened to most of the locos after the First World War. |
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OUT OF THE SHED AND IN TO THE SUNLIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 35
YEARS....FIRST STEAM TRIALS.BLOEMFONTEIN WORKSHOP |
 RN 193 -Lest we forget, this is what the Feldbahn looked like when it arrived from the UK RN 192 - Feldbahn locos working in Eastern Europe RN 176 - Bloemfontein. Brigade (Feldbahn) Locomotive RN 163 - Our Brigade (Feldbahn) restoration proceeds apace. RN 148 - The Brigade Loco (Feldbahn) makes more steady progress RN 132 - The Feldbahn being restored by Sandstone Bloemfontein workshops is proceeding steadily |