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Photographs taken between 25th & 31st August 2020

7th September 20207th September 2020 David Coleman 0 Comment Photographs
Tuesday, 25.8.2020. Our fire extinguisher inspector demonstrates how to drop an extinguisher …
… which has his audience enthralled!
Meanwhile at Maespoeth, Tony has painted one of the tip-up seats for the Guard’s compartment of carriage No. 24 in black …

… while Bob works on some more track jacks under the watchful eye of Hugh.
Dick lends his weight to waggon frame manufacture in the Carriage Shed …
… while Pete sands the floor in carriage No. 23 …

… preparatory to varnishing.
Thursday, 27.8.2020. Adrian cleans up more parts on the drop-side Heritage waggon body …
… before welding more bits back on!

Saturday, 29.8.2020. Richard and John take a break from working on the Waggon Shelter …
… ready for more spectacular progress!
Sunday, 30.8.2020. Trusses are starting to be formed …

… while Jack experiments with adapting a quad bike sprayer to railway use …
… and Tony starts to dispose of our accumulated cut vegetation.
Storm Francis has brought a large branch down across the line – until cleared by Jack.

No. 6 sets off to retrieve waggons being used by the rest of the Sunday Gang as they pack sleepers …
… before returning to Maespoeth, re-arranging the train and viewing Waggon Shelter progress from the Signal Box.
Trefor arrives with weedkiller to load the waggon experiment …

… so that the ensemble can reach Corris and start spraying …
… leaving behind a wet track!
Monday, 31.8.2020. John appears to have difficulty hearing – or was he giving the photographer instructions?

The Sunday Gang (on a Monday) arrive in Corris …
… to recover S&T equipment for re-use …
… leaving the site clear of such items.

Southern Extension. Pont y Goedwig Deviation Project. Tuesday, 25.8.2020. Father & Son Machines have been moved in anticipation of Storm Francis …
… but more stone has been delivered!
Saturday, 29.8.2020. Material is tipped in a temporary store (for later use) …

… while the next stone layer has been placed at the southern end of the job …
… but Dai has to clear over-spill by hand …
… to ensure there is an overlap with the next layer of geotextile.

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A view of the North platform in the evening light, Christmas now less than a handful of days away, with a new Welsh lockdown due at Midnight tonight this would be the last working day on the railway for a while. The rail bolster wagon sat in the South Platform road, with a bit of work this will be a good addition to the fleet. The first few wagons have reached the North platform, to be propelled back into the South platform to enable space to extract the other few rakes. The fairly poor condition of the CAT carriage here is very noticeable – the chassis seems to look OK. Saturday, 19.12.2020. Time for a grand shunt of the head-shunt at Maespoeth. With the ultimate aim of extracting the “CAT Carriage” for restoration to begin in 2021. Friday 25th December… NadoligLlawen-Happy Christmas, at Corris Station. Chris couples up the CAT wagon (which we had left outside the new wagon shelter mid shunt) in order to propel it towards the new shelter in the hope it would fit. “Doh!” – not quite. With the light failing, loco 6 sits at the head of the ‘serviceable’ works wagons ready to return them to their resting place in the siding. To enable the carriage to thoroughly dry out prior to sorting its contents and begin stripping work, it was dragged into the loco shed behind No.6 and fitted in with a couple of inches to spare. The wagon which until recently was used to store loco 10’s new boiler is next to be dragged out the undergrowth, along with four ex RNAD Trecwn wagons. The view up the siding from the cab of loco 6, the railhead by this point had become extremely greasy and sand needed to be found to gain adhesion.

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