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Rheilffordd Corris Railway

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2020 Photograph Archive

Photographs taken between 24th September & 15th October 2020

Thursday, 24.9.2020. Before finishing last weekend, John completed repairs to the platform fencing at the far end of the North Platform, Maespoeth.
In the Carriage Shed, Adrian is welding up and dressing off holes in the one side of the Drop Side waggon body …
… before drilling holes elsewhere – when the cutter allows!

Tony has completed repairs to the body end of the Infrastructure waggon.
By the end of the day, work on two sides of the Heritage Drop Side waggon are largely complete, once the mis-shaped side is brought back into line.
Saturday, 26.9.2020. It is the annual “Railways on the Air” weekend, with a camper van set up on the car park at Maespoeth …

… and a fine aerial array erected to receive and send messages. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, only one operator was on duty all weekend.
Sunday, 27.9.2020. At the end of the day, it was all hands to dismantle the arrangements.
Thursday, 1.10.2020. Adrian has fabricated two brake lever hangers for use on the frames of Heritage Waggon No. 5 – with the pattern alongside.

He then makes adjustments to the second tip-up seat fabrication in the Guard’s compartment of carriage No. 24 ...
… so that the new steel can be finish painted.
Meanwhile, Tony has added a section of fence to abut the waggon shelter roof to guard against the drop below.

Tuesday, 6.10.2020. Bob and Chris have continued to manufacture track jacks, the basics of 6 new ones being added to the 4 existing ones to help align track in the future.
Meanwhile, in the Carriage Shed, Tony assists Charles drilling out the mortises on the new frames to go under the body of Heritage Waggon No. 5.
Thursday, 8.10.2020. Adrian continues to struggle to drill out holes for rivets on the Drop Side waggon body (the cutters don’t like the heritage steel!) …

… but is more successful fitting a new hinge (fabricated earlier by the Tuesday Gang).
Thursday, 15.10.2020. Adrian resorts to brute force to straighten the top of the waggon end …
… and the long side, before getting the end square – with a few tricks!

By the end of the day, the drop side can be (temporarily) clamped in position to try it for size.
Meanwhile, holes have been drilled in the brake hanger brackets …
… the Sundae Gang arrive to work up the line …

… and the stop blocks are all white.

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  • For The First Time Since 1930 Corris Railway Number 4 Will Take Passengers For A Journey From Corris Station
  • Photographs taken on 19th & 25th December 2020
  • Photographs taken between 12th & 18th December 2020
  • Photographs taken between 25th November & 14th December 2020

Latest Photographs

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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