Work in Progress: 31st January
posted by Nigel Thompson
on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 18:26
Last week's heavy snow on Exmoor prevented most people travelling to Woody Bay for the work parties. Just a few days later the weather has turned milder and occasionally wetter!
The snow has now gone but today was dry and windy. A full turnout of 15 volunteers were on site site today carrying out several contrasting projects.
Here is a selection of views of just some of the work carried out for the railway today.
Outdoors
The snow has now gone but today was dry and windy. A full turnout of 15 volunteers were on site site today carrying out several contrasting projects.
Here is a selection of views of just some of the work carried out for the railway today.
Outdoors
1. John Villers from Dorset works on splitting up and removing more of the point rodding roller brackets.
2. Graham Varney removes signal rollers and brackets from redundant and broken concrete pedestals.
3. Nigel Thompson drove a works train down (up) the line to the sleeper storage area near Bridge 67. Andy Foster (left) and John Heys remove surplus baseplates from several old short length sleepers prior to eventual disposal.
4. These stacks of sleepers by the lineside have now all been removed -the rotten sleepers for disposal, and the sound ones for storage and future re-use. Some plywood panels were also removed for storage elsewhere. This work is all part of the project to tidy the lineside and consolidate the stored track materials for future use.
5. Julian Palmer from Plymouth paints the door frame red.....
6. ....whilst wife, Lindsay paints the inside of the single door of the booking office.
7. The wooden patterns for the L&BR loco chopper couplings were recently delivered to Woody Bay. Created from original drawings - they are noticeably different from those fitted to the carriages.
8. Just after these photos were taken, the patterns were dispatched to the local foundry where the couplings are to soon be cast. These are of course essential for the locomotives to be able to couple up to the heritage carriages when they arrive in only a matter of months time!
Words and pictures by Graham Bendell (1, 2) and Nigel Thompson (3-8)
2. Graham Varney removes signal rollers and brackets from redundant and broken concrete pedestals.
3. Nigel Thompson drove a works train down (up) the line to the sleeper storage area near Bridge 67. Andy Foster (left) and John Heys remove surplus baseplates from several old short length sleepers prior to eventual disposal.
4. These stacks of sleepers by the lineside have now all been removed -the rotten sleepers for disposal, and the sound ones for storage and future re-use. Some plywood panels were also removed for storage elsewhere. This work is all part of the project to tidy the lineside and consolidate the stored track materials for future use.
Meanwhile inside the station building, the booking office/shop area is being redecorated ready for the 2013 season.
5. Julian Palmer from Plymouth paints the door frame red.....
6. ....whilst wife, Lindsay paints the inside of the single door of the booking office.
Loco Chopper Coupling Patterns arrive at Woody Bay
7. The wooden patterns for the L&BR loco chopper couplings were recently delivered to Woody Bay. Created from original drawings - they are noticeably different from those fitted to the carriages.
8. Just after these photos were taken, the patterns were dispatched to the local foundry where the couplings are to soon be cast. These are of course essential for the locomotives to be able to couple up to the heritage carriages when they arrive in only a matter of months time!
Words and pictures by Graham Bendell (1, 2) and Nigel Thompson (3-8)
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