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2020 Photograph Archive

Photographs taken between 23rd & 28th June 2020

Tuesday, 23.6.2020. Lez has been back, and finished the block wall supports for the grating around the water column – it was very warm!

While Lez was working, Tony replaced a rotten plank in the drop-side door of the infrastructure waggon.

Wednesday, 24.6.2020. With blue skies and high temperatures, Richard has returned to try and undertake more work on the Pont y Goedwig Deviation …

… but finds the soil too wet, so starts to negotiate his way out …

… with a push!

Despite the heat, puddles are not evaporating …

… so instead, he places stone in the bottom layer of the new embankment …

… until the stock-pile on site is largely exhausted.

Thursday, 25.6.2020. Adrian switches on the magnet of the (heavy!) magdrill, to complete the drilling and fixing of items under the frames of carriage No. 23 …

… until, with a re-arrangement of packing, one bogie can be run underneath to its approximate final position.

In the meantime, Tony has cleaned up and re-primed the grating to fit around the water column …

… followed by painting the new block work with black bitumen.

After lunch, it is a spot of weedkilling for Tony …

… followed by painting the edge of the grating white.

Meanwhile, Adrian has been really struggling in the heat and humidity, to drill for and fix remaining items under carriage No. 23’s frames …

… but by evening, the second bogie has been run under, and the body lowered – but not yet on to the bogies.

Throughout the day, 2m Social Distance markers have been measured out and painted on the floors of the Carriage and Engine Sheds, in accordance with the Risk Assessment prepared for re-opening the sheds to volunteers from further afield – in due course!

Sunday, 28.6.2020. Patrick and Trefor have arrived to fill No. 7’s boiler and tanks in anticipation of its steam test next week.

A walk up the line reveals piles of cut vegetation …

… but in Corris, the scene is more reminiscent of 1949 (after the railway had closed)!

At the station site, Jack and Tony are cutting back more aggressive growth …

… before returning to Maespoeth to empty the waggons …

… and swopping locos …

… plus adding ballast and other waggons …

… while locos 9 & 5 (plus waggons) wait patiently at Maespoeth for their return.

Work included ballasting around the accommodation crossing treated last weekend …

… removing cut vegetation from earlier works in Corris, and extra ballasting after the earlier P. Way works pre-Lock Down.

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