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Rheilffordd Corris Railway

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2017 Photograph Archive

Photographs taken between 22nd & 25th July 2017

Saturday, 22.7.2017. As it should be – Tony cleans windows in the carriages before the day’s operations …
… while Ioan, Mike and Jack prepare No. 7 …
… in a part of the shed where they can reach the top of the saddle tank!

Once outside and coupled to the train, Ioan and Jack water No. 7.
The late running 16.45 train makes a fine sight as it departs from Maespoeth.
The roof line of the carriages emphasises the change in gradient from Maespoeth Bank to the Carriage Shed access!

Sunday, 23.7.2017. Dave waters No. 7 at the “old” water point before the first train of the day.
Andy calls by with a box of “goodies” for carriage No. 24 …
… before cleaning up side frames for the next carriage bogie …

… and stacking the parts together ready for his next visit to Maespoeth.
Monday, 24.7.2017. Will Trefor be going hungry this week?
Tuesday, 25.7.2017. Bob is back on the lathe, turning up spacers for carriage No. 24 as a brief interlude from screw couplings …

… while Stevie drills the remaining coupling pins …
… and Bill and Charles have changed the First Aid box holder on loco No. 6.
In the Carriage Shed, after much setting up and adjusting, the two passenger saloons on carriage No. 24 have been aligned so Adrian can start cutting metal again for the North saloon …

… while adjacent, Neil marks out the corners of carriage No. 23 to chamfer them …
… as Graham trims back mouldings (yes, it was warm today!) …
… and Bill is following up by plane sailing!

After more careful measuring and comparison, the first roof board on carriage No. 23 is aligned …
… and drilled, tapped and screwed into position with many hands steadying the ship!
By now, Adrian is well into his stride, adding fresh metal to the body frames of carriage No. 24, and nearly all steel has now been cut – plenty of welding work for next week!

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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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