Work in Progress: 24th April

  Easter has come and gone ...

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1. ISAAC arrives at Woody Bay with the first train of the day.

2. Freight on the L&B, as a poster board frame for Killington Lane is loaded into the luggage compartment of coach № 17.

3. Official contacts with Network Rail at Exeter have recently resulted in the purchase of a large amount of surplus signalling equipment, such as complete lever frames. These were collected in the trailer this week. Roger Bye begins to detach a small control box from a lever frame.

4. Roger and Don Newnham remove a lever frame locking bar mechanism.

5. With signalling expert Dick Gunn absent this week, it's up to Don to fathom out, photograph and record how the locking bars work before this mechanism is stored pending future use.

6. The next project today was installing new galvanised steel posts into the ground by the main entrance. The augur was used to drill the hole and the posts planted.

7. General Manager Martyn Budd (right) is out of the excavator cab for a moment to help back-fill the post holes with dry cement mix.

8. Checking the upright and levels as the second post is installed.

9. Another small project this afternoon was cementing an inlet to a small trackside drain by the transhipment siding car park gate. Richard Willey (left), visiting from South Cambridgeshire, was volunteering again today and gives his advice during this job.

10. Roger 'haunches' the cement around the drainage pipe inlet.

11. Not forgetting all the guys busy in the shed, Jim Pounds sands down some filler onto Baguley Diesel PILTON's front end.

12. A fine view as ISAAC arrives at Woody Bay this afternoon. Over the Easter holidays there have been plenty of visitors about, enjoying their rides on the heritage carriages.

Words and pictures by Nigel Thompson