SRPS C&W Department


SRPS C&W Department
The Scottish Railway Preservation Society activities at Bo'ness, in particular, the Carriage and Wagon department are featured on this site. There is a lot of information on the 24v battery system as fitted to Mk1 coaches built in the late 50's and early 60's to operate the carriage lighting system. Use the Menu at the left to navigate the site, or use the search facility. Help wanted!
left: J36 no.65243 "Maude" between Bo'ness and Kinneil

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This site is run by Don Clarke, a volunteer at the SRPS. On this site there is a lot of information about the electrical aspects of coaching stock, the Carriage and Wagon Department restoration and renovation activities, a picture gallery including ALL the LNER pacifics and a section on BVE, the Japanese authored train simulator for the PC for which Don has written some routes - Edinburgh to Aberdeen and the Bo'ness and Kinneil branch.
Don runs his own little business from home called GoToPCs. The enterprise was originally set up as a software consultancy, but the activities have expanded into electronics repair and design, home remodelling, white goods repair, web site design, plumbing, etc, etc. The day job involves working as a drilling fluids engineer offshore in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea.
If you have any comments on the site or an interest in any of the subjects covered, please contact Don via email on [anti-spam - remove the X's, translate the "dot" and the "(at)"] don(at)XgotopcsXdotXnet - he'd be delighted to hear from you.

What's new (or recent anyway)?

BVE - J36 Steam + updated Aberdeen routes

Mud Engineering (the day job) description added.

Stone's Regulator (updated Feb 2009). Also Wolverton Lighting System (in non-patentese language). Excellent paper on Rotax system from 1949 (Jan 2009)

55189 at Bo'ness (Feb 2009)

Restoration of 644 chapter 23 (April 2009).

Renovation of NB saloon no 461 chapter 6 (April 2009).

Tornado 60163 in Edinburgh revised (Feb 2009).
Special offer at Yarn Market Hotel in Dunster for Tornado's visit to the WSR from 25th May until 14th June 2009.

This site is updated whenever a relevant amount of new or changed information is available. There may be gaps of several months - the restoration business is not fast moving - it would go faster if there were more hands to help - please click on the "Help wanted" link above to see how could help this very worthy cause.