Below: This morning a Brimec type lorry arrived to move the Waggonway train from Pockerley to the Colliery, partly to free up space for the Christmas activities and partly to allow for some much needed maintenance on the train. The first two vehicles are seen here being winched aboard.

Below: Coffee Pot was steamed to carry out the Colliery shunting, the first job being to move the repainted van from the shed to the south siding adjacent to the ice rink.

Below: Using the barrier waggon Coffee Pot and I then sorted the train out and placed three of the vehicles into the engine shed.

Below: A close up of the open coach.

Below: The closed coach and guard’s chaldron are seen here.

Below: The fourth vehicle, another chaldron was then attached to the rake to make quite an impressive scene in the exchange sidings to the rear of Francis Street. As ever Coffee Pot was a delight to use for this work – on Welsh steam coal it ran on barely five shovel fulls of coal after the initial lighting up fire!

Below: Tram depot Road 4 creeps onwards – in the morning the floor cutter will arrive to prepare the depot floor for laying of rails – the first step being to slit the concrete to allow later removal of the material.