ASTT has released its latest update on the Bury Conference to be held over the weekend of 30th Sept – 1st Oct. The conference will include nine presentations covering on a wide range of subjects relating to steam locomotive engineering. It will also include visits to the East Lancs Railway workshops and Ian Riley’s workshops, […]
ASTT is pleased to report that David Wardale’s book “The Red Devil and Other Tales from the Age of Steam” is now on sale through this website. This is the fifth edition of a book that continues in such high demand that second-hand copies had once again been selling for eye-watering three figure sums. This […]
John Hind has prepared a report on the ASTT seminar/workshop “Network Steam – Securing Steam’s Future on Network Rail” held at Birmingham University on 10th May 2017. A copy of the report can be downloaded from the Newsletter page of this website (available to members only).
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A new “Newsletter” webpage has been created to allow ASTT members to access past Newsletters and future Bulletins. It includes links to Newsletters Nos 1 and 2 which have long-since been published in the News section of the site. A link to Newsletter No 3 (issued December 2016) has now been added. Access to the […]
Planning is underway for ASTT’s autumn conference which will be held at the Bury Transport Museum in Bury, Greater Manchester from Saturday 30th Sept to Sunday 1st October. The theme of the conference will be “Building a future for the Steam Locomotive” and its focus will be on new-build steam and technological developments relating to […]
ASTT will be hosting a workshop/seminar on the topic “Securing Steam’s Future on Network Rail” at the University of Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, starting at 9:30am on Wednesday 10th May 2017. Attendance will be limited to ASTT members and invited guests. Invitations were sent out on 9th April, so any member who […]
The five presentations given at AST’s General Meeting at Bury on 4th March are now available on the Bury Presentations page of this website. Members who couldn’t attend the meeting now have a chance to see and hear the excellent presentations given by our five speakers. The page is password protected, the password being available […]
Cedric Lodge, James Evans and Chris Newman were in attendance to represent the AST Trust at the memorial ceremony for Phil Girdlestone held at Boston Lodge on Saturday 18th May 2017. The event was attended by around 40 people amongst whom were Phil’s elder brother Roland, FR General Manager Paul Lewin, and steam engineers Shaun […]
ASTT held its AGM at the Bury Transport Museum on 4th March 2017. A committee meeting preceeded the AGM which was followed by an afternoon general meeting at which five presentations were made. The 20 ASTT members attending included: John Hind (chairman); Cedric Lodge (secretary); Mike Horne (retiring secretary); Paul Hibberd (treasurer); John Duncan (Committee […]
On Saturday 4/2/17, Jamie Keyte, Mike Horne and John Hind went to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway to log the smokebox vacuum on S160 5820, a 2-8-0 built by Lima in 1945 for the United States Army Transportation Corps. A Lempor exhaust for 5820 was designed by the Advanced Steam Traction Trust and fitted […]
Phil Girdlestone, who died in South Africa in April 2016, was one of a small band of latter-day engineers who travel the world implementing improvements to steam locomotives based on the preachings of Livio Dante Porta. One of Phil’s last wishes was to have his ashes laid to rest at the Ffestiniog Railway in North […]