Apologies for the long gap since our last update, but your blogger's been on holiday and generally busy elsewhere. That's not to say things haven't been happening on the railway, far from it!
Recent work has however been rather mundane, compared with say, tamping the new loop at Leyburn. Spot replacement of defective rails and sleepers has been the order of the day, with work concentrated on Redmire (5mph TSR removed), Spruce Gill UWC (another 5mph TSR removed) and between Wensley and Westfield Farm. The Saturday gang also managed to fit a hand-lever to the new points in Leeming Bar yard, saving our Ops colleagues the time and effort in having to scotch and clip them every time.
We've hopefully got a works train out and about on the 19th, sorting out the logistics for a number of forthcoming jobs including the installation of Leyburn West points (which just about fills up our diary for November all by itself).
If any of our readers are involved with heritage railways elsewhere, we're on the scrounge for the concrete "stools" which support mechanical point rodding, say 20-25 of these beasts. They can be with or without the metal frames and wheels which fit on top: we've got plenty of those! Drop us a note if you can point us in the direction of any. We need to install them soon, before we top up the shoulder ballast on the loop following the tamper's visit!
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| A couple of freshly installed bullhead rails at Spruce Gill UWC, replacing old 90lb rails with head cracking |
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| A couple of newly changed sleepers at Spruce Gill |
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| Michael M boxing- in behind his Leyburn colleagues up near Wensley |
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| Safe to say this sleeper has been long deceased.... |
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| Off home, with a cheeky pile of firewood loaded to the trolley!! |
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