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Rheilffordd Corris Railway

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2017 Photograph Archive

Photographs taken between 11th & 18th July 2017

Tuesday, 11.7.2017 The workshop is busy, Chris machining parts for a Facing Point Lock while Bob continues turning parts for screw couplings ...
… while in the Carriage Shed, Phil is painting the new sign for the Signal Box …
… and Bill gives carriage No. 23 the John Cleese treatment …

… having just cut out the slots for vents in the end panels.
Over the past weekend, the first of the semi-completed bogies for the carriages has been wheeled down to the Carriage Shed …
… the fence leading up to the North platform has been completed ...

… and a good start has been made on re-painting the Signal Box …
… ready to take the new sign completed during the day.
Thursday, 13.7.2017. Adrian drills holes for holding down the body to the frames of carriage No. 24 amongst other fabrication tasks.

Friday, 14.7.2017. Jack tears up rags as Richard and Nick supervise him as part of his boiler management assessment …
… which he passes without problem!
Later on, it is “Race the Train” with Corris School …

… which brings a good crowd of pupils, ex-pupils and parents for the evening. The train only beat one child (who was suffering from stitch) …
… while Alison was making an excellent job of painting faces!
Saturday, 15.7.2017. No fireman today, so Trefor tops up the diesel in No. 11 to run a diesel service, supervised by Ifor …

… and Billy!
Mick was delighted with his birthday headboard!
Sunday, 16.7.2017. Tony returns from an early inspection of the line, after trees fell across the road south of Corris overnight – all was well.

Three Greens on display to signal off the train!
After a dull start, by late afternoon the sun was out …
… and later, a streaky No. 6 was ready to take the carriages down to the Carriage Shed.

Tuesday, 18.7.2017. Bob resumes turning parts for screw couplings …
… as Chris prepares other components …
… Graham has sorted the Signal Box door so that it does not cause the guttering over it to dis-joint (discharging water down the neck!) …

… and Adrian has set up and fabricated initial components for the North saloon bodywork of carriage No. 24.
… while Stevie has been drilling holes and fitted the stretcher bar for the facing point lock on one of the loop cross-over turnouts.
Dave has just completed re-painting a panel in carriage No. 20 …

By the very hot mid-afternoon, there was much crashing outside as a machine started to create an inter-field track behind the sheds and North platform …
… necessitating three holes to be rapidly dug to move our fence back to our boundary!

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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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