CVR Wagon Group
Welcome to the Colne Valley Railway WAGON Group.
The Colne Valley Railway Group, founded in 2024, aims to preserve and restore heritage wagons. We do that from our base at the Colne Valley Railway in Essex.
Use the menus to navigate through some of our projects as well as the stock currently on site at the CVR. Use the ‘contact us’ tab if you wish to find out more about us or are looking to get involved, we’d love to hear from you!
Below you will see some of our updates. Click the Facebook logo to be redirected to our CVR Wagon Group Facebook page!
Latest updates
- Welding holes continuesThe tank had 5 holes. It will never contain liquids again, but we have to repair these holes. Over the past couple of weeks, I have worked to repair these holes. So far, three of five have been repaired. Here is an update on the latest one. In the following image, you can see the… Read more: Welding holes continues
- Wagon preservation challenges in heritage railways
Every heritage organisation involved in preserving history has the same core issues: money, labour, time, and desire. If you don’t have a group of people with the desire and time to preserve something – and in this context, we are talking about wagons, nothing will be preserved. You could argue to a point that, with… Read more: Wagon preservation challenges in heritage railways - Welding. Cutting.1855 has not been a sealed tank for a long time. It has had a few corrosion issues. It has four holes in it. Over Christmas, I set to preparing to repair one of the holes. Its taken nearly 3 months to get this far due to lack of proper tools (a suitable welder) and… Read more: Welding. Cutting.
- Needling at 90%!Whilst Adam continued work on our new workbench, I used the railway being closed to make plenty of noise with the needle gun. Unfortunately there’s a lot of tasks now involving the needle gun and wire wheel which is very very time consuming. So if you’re reading this and want to lend us a hand… Read more: Needling at 90%!
- Templates ticked off!This weekend we ticked off a ‘must do’ job, which was to remake the template for the saddles that sit under the tank. Adam did some clever calculations that allowed us to get an accurate curve marked out onto a large sheet of plywood and then I jigsaw’ed out the shape. We test fit it… Read more: Templates ticked off!