As we progress into Autumn and the days start to get shorter, there are still plenty of jobs to do on the railway. Hotspur's blower was not working last week when we had a running session, so our engineering boys (Ray, Barry & Geoff), are fabricating some replacement pipework as the existing run was found to be blocked. The pruning of our bushes and trees continues and the grass is still growing ! Geoff is spending time working on his loco, Titan, which we hope will be running soon, and we are making some fencing panels to tidy up the area around the signal box where we plan to install a paving slab footpath so that we don't keep walking across the ballast here, and, as it was a bit wet this morning, we were tidying up our workshop storage cupboard so all our manuals and catalogues can be stored tidily.....
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
End of the line (s) !
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Track rearrangements
This week saw the completion of the improvements to our loco shed access trackwork. The work entailed the installation of two new points and alteration of the trackwork at the shed end of the platform, enabling much quicker loco changes to be made. We can now access shed roads 2 & 3 straight from the platfom, and shed track 1 from the middle road in the (Ashmanhaugh) station. This will help to keep loco changover delays to a minimum on Open Days.
We tested this new arrangement during our running day today when several of our members got more experience in driving , guarding and signalling.
Monday, 8 September 2008
7th September Open Day cancelled
The wet weather once again forced us to cancel Sunday's Open Day, unfortunately, but the ground was just too waterlogged to cope with the car traffic on our parking area.
Sorry if you made a fruitless journey, let's hope we can run the last Open Day this year, scheduled for 5th October!
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