General News Roundup – A very busy day!
Below: A few notes from the Friends activities: Here is an invalid carriage undergoing full restoration. More of this to appear on here in due course.
Below: The Hodbarrow tipper chassis – this evening this was re-wheeled and turned right-way-up. The detail work can now be completed and I understand the body should be at Beamish sometime next week.
Below: The Adams car elevator is also making great progress as this view shows.
Below: Likewise the water cart, now in undercoat with topcoated wheels.
Below: 200 narrow gauge sleepers have been supplied via the Bowes Railway, work on our own narrow gauge line being due to start next week… watch this space!!!
Below: Of course, the arrival of 233 caused quite a stir today.
Below: Philip Higgs attends to 233 (or 605 as presently known) with jetwash and brush to remove years of Blackpool grime.
Below: As 233 looks on, surrounded by new friends, Les Brunton from the BTG strips the trolley tower. This will be shotblasted, rot made good and the reassembled and repainted with new timberwork and an overhauled trolleybase and connections.
Also today, Dave Young painted Lewin’s boiler, another David, one of the painters here, was priming the open coach for the Waggonway train and numerous holes, drains and similar were being dug, filled in or looked into! Sunny weather seems to encourage hardworking.
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