Trains were busy over the easter holiday break running for two and a half weeks and were busy after the ...   more »

The local community payback team have been helping at the railway and car park for some weeks. They are doing a good job and have cleared lots of scrub from around the car park and along the path to the lake.
They have moved on to concrete the path from the platform to the level crossing which will make it easier for those in wheel chairs and biggies. There is lots on work still to do on the old platform before this season really gets underway.

We been busy at home this week with yet more work on the website. Building links is tedious but necessary to get good rankings. Writing more structured web pages is also taking far longer than I had planned. Sent off lots of request for listings for half term next week when the trains will run daily.

The better weather has meant I went outside to tidy up. The pile of sand left from our store shed has gone after over a year. The trailer ahs been filled and so its off to the tip next. The workshop is slowly clearing so that at last the next carriage can be started. This will be another brake coach similar to the LTM coaches with lots of room for the guard to spread out.

Work at Rudyard has seen the new colour light signals fixed in place and working on the starter signal. However in due course its back to semaphores now that Ian has won some electric actuators on ebay. The signals moving does add more atmosphere than simply lights changing. The key thing is to make them sturdy enough to remain in place all the time.

 

The steam engines have all passed their boiler examinations for this year and should be ready for action soon.

Waverley and Excalibur had their turn on Wednesday with Adam and Mark keeping an eye on proceedings.

 

Having got the new website set up I am battling to get it recognised by the search engines and to correct the errors. Any suggestions or problem you spot please let me know.

Been playing trains with George H on his o gauge model railway this afternoon. The trains performed better than the operators!!

This is to welcome you to my blog and hope you find it helpful and interesting. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Mike