Work in Progress - Thursday 7th May

Spring Gala preparations

As well as helping erect the marquees at Woody Bay and Moorlands for the Gala, this week the volunteers also completed a full tidy of the site at Woody Bay, including removal of the remaining unsightly building materials from the public areas.

AXE was in steam with a busy day of visitors and several L&B Trust members turning up early for the Gala and AGM weekend. Despite no visiting steam locomotive being available for the weekend, the diesels (TITCH & HEDDON HALL) were engaged in a mammoth shunt of several wagons around for photographic displays of works trains.

Photos: Nigel Thompson

1. Hunslet diesel HEDDON HALL and Simplex diesel TITCH in the dock siding by the new toilet block.

2. During the shunt TITCH and HEDDON HALL with several works wagons.

3. HEDDON HALL with a freight train of bogie opens, box vans and the brake van in the headshunt.

4. All three current working L & B locomotives side by side with TITCH on the Transhipment siding, HEDDON HALL on the headshunt as AXE passes with a passenger train.

5. TITCH with the bogie opens on photographic display for the Gala weekend.

6. The other freight train formed up behind HEDDON HALL on the headshunt as AXE passes with the passenger train.