Work in Progress: 17 March

posted by Nigel Thompson on Fri, 18/03/2011 - 22:36

A variety of various jobs today including further tidying of the lineside prior to the main operating season.

1. First job today was to sort out several crossing timbers (long sleepers used on turnouts) which had been stored in the overflow car park field.

2. The digger moves the long sleepers across the field to load onto the bogie flat wagon.

3. The works train down the line with the digger able to lift and recover the remaining long rails stored near Bridge 67.

4. At Killington Lane Bogie flat No. 28321 loaded with the crossing timbers collected from storage.

5. The stack of old short rails recovered after the winters rail renewals will soon be going for scrap with the money collected helping towards the various projects underway at Woody Bay.

6. Richard and Dave work on a replacement fishplate at a rail joint on the loop at Killington Lane.

7. A final view of the ex GWR type 2-lever frame at Killington Lane due to be replaced this weekend with a more appropiate ex Southern Railway one.

8. The digger operating off the well wagon was also used to remove several half-buried rolls of fencing wire by the lineside.

9. All the scrap wire was removed from this location thus permitting a safer walking route for the permanent way staff along the lineside.

10. Another rolling stock project now underway at Woody Bay is the regauging of another ex MOD 4 wheel flat wagon formerly from the RN Arnaments Museum at Gosport. The wagon has been upturned onto MOD flat No.52 to enable work on the regauged wheelsets and brake gear adjustments. Martyn Budd and Jim McFarlane discuss this work.

11. The upturned flat wagon on top of ex MOD flat No 52 also attracts discussion from volunteers Dave Blencowe, Julian Sinclair and Dave Tooke whilst diesel HEDDON HALL awaits to go on shed.