Small but capable squad met at Boat of Garten on Saturday and Georgie said the dreaded words - "a bit of ballast tidying boys"
All headed out to Kinchurdy Straight and proceeded to tidy ballast and create decent cesses possibly the last, for the time being.
Thanks to Georgie, Andrew, Fergus and Mike for photo/info
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The following Saturday saw the start of a new project - the replacement of the run-round switch at the North end of Broomhill Loop and replace four panels of track beyond.
Commencing at Boat of Garten.
Big enough squad to get split up - myself and Michael above tasked with getting all the small stuff ready to be taken to site but after carrying sixty skirted fishplates through the obstacle course at Morleys - our conclusion is nothing is light on a railway!
John and Martin above selected appropriate rails for Georgie to load onto PWay train and they also dismantled the extremely out of guage components off the switch. Mike did battle with plumbing jobs am and assisted pm and took the photos.
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By the following Tuesday the still out of guage P'Way train was assembled
and Dave Green took this photo prior to its slow propelling movement all the way to Broomhill under the watchful eye of Georgie and Nathan from the brakevan.
Past Tullochgorum overbridge, disturbing the cattle!
Broomhill Bridge necessitated stopping first and checking!
Re-marshalling and shunting required to unload using, our 12 Tonne Rail Crane recently re-livered.
Switch panels now ready for further transfer at appropriate time.
Thanks to Dave, Roddy, Ryan for all the photos
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