Corris Railway - Photograph collection.

Welcome to the Photograph collection of the The Corris Railway.

Many photographs are taken of the Railway both whilst work is going on and when passenger services are running. The menu to the left has been split into "year" sections partly to enable visitors to see the progress of the Railway over a period of time.

Below you will see the most recent photographs that have been put onto the web site. Click on the year number in the left menu to see all photographs for a particular year.

If you have any photographs of the Corris that you would like to donate to the Railway for publication on the web site then please send them to the Webmaster with a covering note, or e-mail if they are digital, stating that you are donating them and have no objections to them being published by The Corris Railway Society on the web site or in other associated publications. Thank you.

Photographs taken between 6th & 11th May 2008
Taken by David Coleman
Uploaded on 12/05/2008

Tuesday, 6.5.08. Lez has bedded more blocks to protect the Carriage Shed waterproofing.	Wednesday, 7.5.08. A mini digger has arrived to excavate footings for a retaining wall at the rear of the Maespoeth platform extension.	Shuttering is in place for the first section of floor screed in the Carriage Shed...
...after the track panels have been fixed in place...	...together with the receptors for the north doors drop bolts.	In the engine shed, Trefor secures scotches under No. 7 as he addresses brake binding problems.
Thursday, 8.5.08. The shuttering by the rear doors of the Carriage Shed has been adjusted.	Sunday, 11.5.08. Yesterday, pit rail support beams have been turned over and some cleaned and painted...	...by Michael Huber, who is relaxing on the job!
A bright morning with No. 7 being prepared outside and the carriages already standing in the platform, as Steve Harris walks up to Corris.	With steam up, No. 7 moved into the shed and willing hands propel the brake van onto the rear of the train.	The foundation trench at the back of the platform extension is effectively finished - now for the concrete!
Holes were drilled for the re-gauged turnout - until the drill stopped working!	Advertising boards for some of our sponsors...	...have been erected on the platform fence.
Ali fixes a new ceiling in the S & T Shed.	Andrew tried to fix the telephone exchange, suffering from a suspected lightning strike.	The end of the day, and Trefor propels the brake van back into its siding.

Photographs taken between 23rd March & 5th May 2008
Taken by Richard Greenhough
Uploaded on 15/05/2008

Easter was early this year, and a snowy Cadair Idris looms over Corris as No.7 prepares to leave the station with a down train on Easter Sunday, March 23rd.	Tuesday 25th March, and Mike moves his trolley loaded with mobile mud pies...	...to help Steve lay the base for the new northwards platform extension at Maespoeth.
By Monday May 5th the chill has gone from the air, and No.7 waits at Corris to take the first passenger train of the day to Maespoeth.	Carriage 21 looks splendid in the sunshine, as Rosie leaves off chatting to Trefor to greet Olive as she comes out of her bungalow above the station.	No.7 is impatient to be away !
The train threads its way down the wooded Dulas valley.	An Up train approaching Triangle Crossing.

Photographs taken between 29th April & 5th May 2008
Taken by David Coleman
Uploaded on 06/05/2008

Tuesday, 29.4.08. The sewer vent pipe from the septic tank...	...has been modified to vent away from the public...	...and the end of the Carriage Shed floor waterproofing has been largely completed.
Wednesday, 30.4.08. The track panels have been positioned on the floor ready for levelling, reinforcement and concrete screed.	Stock has been moved around Maespoeth yard...	...and more materials...
...have been delivered for the Carriage Shed.	With space becoming a premium, these items might not last to 5th November!	Friday, 2.5.08. Richard Rugog has supplied a machine...
...to off-load another consignment of rail from Trecwn...	...which has been delivered to us by Jonathon, here enjoying a cuppa...	...while his lorry is unloaded.
The consignment mainly consists of turnouts...	...and fittings, here contained in a timber box.	Jonathon helps out, loading the machine bucket with point levers...
...and throwing down loose sleepers.	During the day, coal was delivered for No. 7.	Plenty of track about - of all sorts of gauges!
A 1 in 8 turnout is already loaded on trolleys for movement to the north platform extension for laying out and regauging.	There are plenty more awaiting attention afterwards!	To fill the trailer, more plain track has been acquired with the turnouts...
...and with the machine on site, opportunity was taken to dig fill...	...to fill up the north platform extension.	Saturday, 3.5.08. Lez has been along to complete another bay of block work.
Somebody has worked up a good shine on the brass work!	Andy, Adrian, Paul and Richard scratch heads over how to...	...re-gauge a turnout.
Bryn and Richard replace sleepers in a turnout...	...which was not proving easy!	Sunday, 4.5.08. Y Mochyn has turned football supporter (obviously not Corris U.F.C.)!
Trefor checks the air pump on No. 7 and the sleepers in the turnout have been changed successfully.	Trainee Guard John Wormington checks his train...	...and the platform extension filling has been roughly levelled.
John Trott supervises Dave Price driving No. 7 up to its train, while Lez continues block laying.	Trefor and Richard tamp the replacement sleepers.	Andrew stops work on re-gauging the turnout as No. 7 eases its train into Maespoeth while the fill is being levelled and checked for fall.
Steve Harris supervises Andrew and Richard, changing sleepers under the turnout to be regauged.	The dumper is being used to move blocks for Lez...	...and Richard uses the bucket of his machine to slew it onto his trailer...
...which is narrower than the machine tracks!	A mixture of names between lorry and machine!	Not bad for a weekend's work - one regauged turnout awaiting drilling and spiking...
....as Paul Bailey drives No. 7 on the last working of the day.	The platform levelling is advancing...	...ready to receive more turnouts for re-gauging.
Lez has set the edge blocks prior to the last of the waterproofing going on the west outside wall...	...and lots of blocks have been moved to keep Lez going!	One of the track panels has been levelled and packed prior to floor screeding.
Monday, 5.5.08. John Trott gives his shed talk to a small group of passengers as the train crew relax...	...and John Wormington, freshly passed out as Guard, eats his lunch!	The stock rail supports have been re-welded for the change in gauge.
Lez has laid another bay of concrete blocks...	...and the mixing point has been moved for the last three bays.