The boiler is lowered onto the ambulance bogies.

The bogies on the flatbed lorry

The front tank had already been removed by the time I arrived.

101 waiting to go to Dinas

The rear unit

The front unit

Boiler is safley down.

Moelwyn then moves the boiler out of the way

No.87

Fred Howes directing the boiler

The rear tank now comes off.

Front and rear tanks airbourne

The rear bogie is lifted off.

The front bogie on the flatbed

Rear bogie on the rails

The tank is then placed back in position

Boiler details

The front bogie goes airbourne

Paul Lewin and Wol look on

Front bogie touches down

Easy does it..

The front tank is then replaced.

The two power bogies where then moved down a little to allow the crane to leave

Viewed from the road

The crane having now left, the bogies are towed out of the yard to Mineral siding.

The boiler also had to be moved further up by the weighbrigde.

Moelwyn brings the bogies up.

The boiler then started on its jounery to Boston Lodge - first it had to pushed up to Minffordd Station

Entering Minffordd

The first NGG16 boiler to pass through Minffordd Station

Number 87 at Minffordd

Passing Cemetery.

Under Rhiw Plas...

... and out the otherside

Jounerys End: Parked outside the old loco shed at Boston Lodge