Below: This view shows Pockerley loop sans siding, with the newly reinstated plain running lines now in use. This has enabled the focus of works to move to the depot…

Below: Davy Sheen tests one of the new winter season lamps for ‘restability’! Davy and Hugh are currently installing an incredibly long string of these lamps around the site, vitally important now that we are open so much more than in previous years and with numerous nightime events.

Below: Jim and Hugh at work threading the cabling through the more prickly undergrowth at the entrance.

Below: Meanwhile, Darren, Mark and their new apprentice, Owen, have taken possession of the green outside the tram depot and are laying out the track in readiness for its installation. The idea is to have a dry run, bend everything into shape and make sure it all fits so as to minimise the interruption to normal service when the pointwork is installed later this autumn.