Boat of Garten North worksite concludes - 20th - 27th August 2022

Gang met up again at Morley's on the last formal P'Way weekend of the Month 20th August

Re-sleepering continued and has now concluded for the time being, above shows a bonded joint to assist with the continuity of S&T track circuits (not many were harmed!).

Another task is to re-ferule the worst of the old wooden ferules, the hardest job is trying to remove them, the best tool we have found is the handle of the sleeper nips as shown by Mike above but still at times a very frustrating job.

Then David inserts the new yellow ferrules and importantly are hammered down by Peter who joins us from the Leeds area.

Then where the screws are worn, new ones are used. 

Above spot the difference ? - on the right is a normal run of the mill chair screw and the one on the left has no taper on the thread and is used to give better grip in old sleepers/holes. 

To aid identification M is for Maintenance, AS above (& S) possibly refer to the type of chair they can be used on?

Squad were glad that 46512 was on the service train as at least it's whistle can be heard.

Thanks to Georgie, Mike, Andrew, Peter and David.

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Station Master or Royal Scotsman or Ballast Guard - R Walters report and photos 24th August "As soon as the last service of the day, hauled by the Class 2 Ivatt, has entered the single line to Aviemore, a ballast train sneaks out of the Up Loop, hauled by the Class 27 Diesel, whilst Royal Scotsman, complete with its own liveried Class 66 locomotive trailing behind our Class 31 awaits its guests before setting off for Dundee.

The ballast train loaded with spoil from the new Running Shed excavations proceeding past Royal Scotsman towards Broomhill, with newly renovated LMS Brake Van at the rear."

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Yesterday saw an extra P'Way day squeezed in, Mike and Georgie were very glad to see Bruce who is up from Wiltshire (below foreground)

appear just as the heat of the day was yet again taking its toll, re-feruling was finally completed and then a bit of track sluing and Measured Shovel Packing (MSP) and no doubt a bit of tidying ballast, all to Georgie's satisfaction.

Thanks to all, especially Bruce, thus enabling squad to move onto another worksite next time.