Work in Progress - Thursday 21st May

A new party-tent marquee was delivered this week and the Thursday gang were tasked with the job of constructing and erecting the new marquee. This marquee is positioned on the former lower lawn (now a levelled stone area) and during the periods throughout the season that it is erected, provides cover for the visitors using outside tea rooms.

^{Photos: Nigel Thompson}

1. Richard struggles to secure the canopy roof to the marquee

2. Richard (left) checks the instructions to see if we've done it right so far

(The final erection to full height was carried out later in the week after delivery of a missing part)
 
The train crew today was.........

3. Eddie Mills was rostered as the driver for AXE

4. Dave Tooke enjoyed another stint as the fireman

5. Guard Dave Blencowe returns the tail lamp onto the rear of the train

6. Jill, Kim and Irene pose outside the kitchen door

Progress also continues on the garden railway

7. Tracklaying parallel to the A39 

8. clearing and levelling the trackbed

 
With the lighter early summer evenings, more photo opportunities are possible as the sun moves around slightly to the north of west.

9. The box vans in the loading dock.

10. The new toilet block (left) and mess room (right).