Windsor Carrier restoration Overloon

[Alex van de Wetering]

Recently Liberty Park, the former War and Resistance museum in Overloon the Netherlands, decided to give their group of volunteers permission to restore the Windsor Carrier, which has been on outside display for ages.

Somewhere in the 70’s the open top of the Windsor had been welded shut to avoid further deterioration of the interior. Some weeks ago this temporarily roof has been removed and fortunately the interior condition was pretty good. When finished the Windsor will get a new place indoors and in the near future it will feature in a “liberation-diorama” along with a 6pdr. Due to costs the Windsor will be restored as a static display and not to running condition; the engine seems to have been disappeared a long time ago and the tracks have also suffered from the outside display.

This first picture shows the Windsor earlier this year, still on outside display with its roof on. The other pictures have been taken recently during the restoration process.

Next project will be the restoration of the “Conger carrier”, for which I will join the team of volunteers.

Alex