Locos being prepared with much ‘mardling’ !

 

Hi

On Saturday 14th October we enjoyed a very good running day, although there was a very cool wind , we put on our warmer clothes and had a good day with ‘Prospero’, ‘Isabel’, ‘Chieftain’ and  the ‘Shay’, all performing well, with drivers Peter, John, Kevin,Thomas, Keith, Richard and Brian all taking a spell on the locos.

                                    JP working on ‘Isabel’

 

 

Keith with ‘Prospero’

 

Peter and ‘Prospero’ coming wrong road round new loop extension

 

Thomas brings ‘Prospero’ out of the station

 

We continue progressing with the signals installations with more cabling installed along side the old headshunt, so we are getting there bit by bit. Kevin helped by coming up with some 12 v LED s which are much brighter in the signal heads so they are what we will use for all the signals now.,

cable run and junction to signal post at anti clockwise exit from headshunt loop

 

‘Isabel’ with John in charge coming along the old station stretch

 

‘Horticultural ‘ work continues with good use being made of John’s new ‘mini mulcher’  which is doing a great job of reducing the tree and bush cuttings. We hope to have a running session after our AGM, , and then we will be thinking of taking in the platform fencing and seats etc to their winter storage, and maybe thinking of draining down the steamers ready to bring up to the top workshop for their winter storage…..then there are some  Clubhouse maintenance items to attend to like redecs and replacing a MDF widow cill that has swollen. It would also be good to get a coat of stain on the external woodwork before Winter sets in, so always plenty of jobs to do !!!!