Work in Progress: 16th May

posted by Martyn de Young on Fri, 17/05/2013 - 00:25

Thanks to all the staff and volunteers for such an amazing, successful Gala last weekend. Everyone worked well as a team providing everything for all the visitors from the car parking, marquee attractions, the catering and of course all the railway operations over the weekend.

This week the railway begins to return to 'normal'. Jobs for the Thursday gang this morning included putting all the signs and notice boards back into storage, retrieving and stacking all the barriers, and taking down and storing the smaller tent used for the Barbeque. The wooden tables were returned to their usual positions, the barbeques cleaned and stored away, and all the rubbish and recycling items collected.

Visitors to the railway at Woody Bay today were treated to the bonus sight of LYD operating the passenger train with Coach 7 & Coach 17. The weather was changeable, but your reporter was able to obtain some better photos of the spectacle making up for the poorer conditions he experienced frustratedly over the weekend.

1. LYD departs from Woody Bay with the first train of the day.

2. A chance to photograph LYD at Woody Bay from a deserted down platform.

3. LYD approaching Woody Bay as seen from the car park field. Another view not possible last weekend.

4. Not in use today GP39 (Bronllwyd) resides outside the shed in sunshine.

After all the tidying up from the Gala, the volunteers carry out a few tasks around the site today.

5. The ash pile was shovelled into wheelbarrows and taken away from the shed area...

6. ...to spread over the new staff path leading from the car park down to the mess room.

7. Tony Nicholson was on hand to take this shot of your reporter (Nigel Thompson) in action as he photographs Jim Price and Dave Evans working on a clean up and repaint of this poster board on the station building by the up platform.