A momentous event in history occurred on 4th May 2008 at approximately 21.00 when 56040’s engine was started for the first time. There had been a workparty on this particular weekend however most people had gone home by 21.00 and there were only a few people remaining to observe the spectacle. The engine was idling for a few minutes and a couple of minor problems were encountered. These have now been resolved. A message of thanks from the Class 56 Group Committee and Directors of Class 56 Locomotives Limited follows:
Congratulations are due to EVERYONE who has ever worked with or for the Class 56 Group or on “Oystermouth” . This really is a team effort that goes back over the last sixteen years, right to the very early days of the Class 56 Group. While the people working on “Oystermouth” today are of course due special thanks for their hard and often dirty work, let us not forget the other hard work carried out by a vast multitude of other people over these sixteen years, even if these people aren’t here today. Every single bit of work, carried out by every single one of these people, has bought us to this momentous moment of not only purchasing a Class 56, but getting it running again. Everyone has done, or still does whatever they can do to help out, and just because someone is or isn’t at Dereham every weekend, this doesn’t diminish in anyway any of this hard work. Even the ordinary Group member paying their annual subscriptions has done his or her small part
Remember . . . .with even the smallest cog missing, the biggest machine won’t work. No one is better than the next person in this team ! !
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN “TEAM CLASS 56 GROUP” OVER THE LAST SIXTEEN YEARS . . . . enough said.
Alan Hawkins
