Work in Progress: 15th August

It was very busy at Woody Bay Station today. Lots and lots of visitors about enjoying their train ride, sampling the tea rooms and learning more about the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.

1. AXE waits to depart with a morning service to Killington Lane.

2. The down starter signal helps to frame this view of AXE arriving back at Woody Bay.

3. The platform barrow (recently restored and repainted by Jim Pounds) poses on the down platform.

4. Nigel Spencer begins cleaning up the next section of railings fence prior to the repainting programme here.



5. The weather today was showery, so an excuse for most of the Thursday gang volunteers to remain in the shed on a variety of cleaning up, painting, and assembling some of the stored signalling items.

6. Martyn Budd (centre) marks out the lever frame base sections.

7. On holiday from the Midlands, but volunteering today with all his family, Nigel Down cleans up some signal fittings with the wire brush angle grinder.

8. Jim Price, was also dodging the rain by staying in the shed, and today took on a carpentry project involving fitting a boxed in section for inside the cab of Hunslet Diesel D6652.

9. The lever frame takes shape as Dick Gunn and Dave Bloomfield assemble the levers into their bases. This frame will be used in the future as the railway extends.

10. Some of the signal components are "seized" and require heat treatment to free them up. Graham Varney applies the blow torch to this signal post bracket.

11. It's not all work all of the time and as it was no longer raining the volunteers remained outside to enjoy the usual tea and cakes at the 3 pm break.

Words and pictures by Nigel Thompson