We are ready!

Hi there, well after having to cancel our May Open day, unfortunately, due to the waterlogged state of the car parking areas, all is well now and we are ready for our Open Day this Sunday June 3rd. We will have the usual array of locos and stock out and about and our Friends are bringing Romulus and Little Olive to help out, thanks guys , we know you like it here  !!!!!

Our posh new Tool Van is complete now and should be on display with our other 'work' vehicles forming an impressive (for us) train, which soon, we hope will have its very own loco to haul it round the track.....more on that one soon.

The new Tool Van ready to go

We had a good Fun Day on 19th May when Remus and Little Olive joined in and a good day was enjoyed by all

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...and earlier this week we had a visit from some of the folks from Echills Wood who are down here for Parklands week, and they had an enjoyable time with us. We hope to welcome them with an engine or two in the future !

The 'special' arriving back at the station with Kevin, Vera, Peter and our good friend Brian B.

...and finally a few of us popped across to Hemsby to experience their Parklands week activities again and enjoyed seeing some interesting locos and meeting up with friends old and new (enjoyed the bacon butties, thanks Vera!). Well done to all the Parkland Boys and Girls, excellent once again!

TTFN

Happiness is.....a Fun Day on the ALR !

All's well Here

Hi There

Well all is dried out again now, shame we had to cancel our first 2018 Open day, disappointing, but there we go, can't afford to churn up the car park area, which was still to wet on Saturday! We have had so much rain that the ground was saturated and was just not draining away, hey ho.

So, (have you noticed this is the standard response these days when someone is asked a question, they reply...so,........etc etc etc !)...we have been busy as always finishing off some jobs that weren't...and doing others as necessary....the loco shed canopy is now finished and providing good shelter and shade for crews lighting up locos, 

The two Johns finishing off the loco shed canopy

                                                                                                                                                                

....and the track is suffering some serious expansion joint tweaking, 

Randy busy tweaking track on the back straight

....and the signals and track detection circuits are being serviced and improved as necessary, the platform is deweeded and ready for re sanding, 'Hotspur' has its side tanks back on,

Johnny B working on Hotspur

...and the grass is cut with our latest 'toy' which is a really good piece of kit,

Peter on grass cutting duties

...and the platform water tank is complete and we have to say looks very good! (but we are a bit biased!), 

Voila !! C'est  termine

...and we are just about to start the repainting/staining of the platform fencing,(oh yes we are are Boys !). The stock is all ok, so we are good to go, we have a Fun/Visiting Locos Day  on Saturday next, so we will give some the trains a run round to test everything out and give a few more members a chance to train up (oops, sorry!) on some task on their 'bucket' list ????.....

TTFN

and Sue's corporate tea cosies, lovely, thank you Sue.
All photos Brian M

May Open Day Cancelled

Hi

Please note that our May 6th Open Day this coming Sunday is cancelled due to the extremely waterlogged ground.....

TTFN