The dust has settled after last week's emergency rail defect removal at Preston Under Scar. Saturday morning saw the last 4x 30ft rails, ex- Argill Farm track renewal, loaded up and trollied from Wensley to Redmire to fill the hole in the run-round loop. The first train was top and tailed, but the loop was up and running for the following services.
A quick lunch, then back down the dale in the trusty Transit to Leeming Bar to move the new yard points another step forward. These points are now in use, albeit in the "through" direction only (the back siding), and a few moves have taken place back and forth across them, including dispatch of steam loco Jennifer and delivery of a rail blue Class 33 diesel. The next task is to connect up the diverging track into the second road of the shed.
By the end of the day we'd got the right hand switch cut- in, the associated connecting rail to the crossing nose joined up and screwed down and an acceptable alignment achieved by applying appropriate pressure this way and that with a couple of track jacks. We're very nearly on the last lap with this job now, and it'll be nice to see it finished and be able to move onto fresh adventures!
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| One half of the switches connected up |
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New point and new visitor!
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