Sunday 28 March 2010

28.3.10

A brief update this week, as I wasn't at the railway and don't know exactly what happened.

The Little Ruston handled the train, and it being a nice sunny afternoon took a fair amount of passengers.

Some more scrap has been gathered together to be weighed in and sold to raise funds for current and future projects. Also, the Gogo tractor has been fixed, and has been running in the yard sucessfully today.

a proper report with photos next again next week!

Wednesday 24 March 2010

21.3.10

Back to business as (almost) usual this week after the diesel gala sucess.

Atlas worked the passenger train, and ran well all day and hauled quite a few full trains thanks to the glorious weather. The curves on the railway have also been measured to calculate their radius. The tightest corner is a 35' radius, which really is quite extreme. The Gogo tractor was also dragged outside to have some fettling done on it after it's failure to run properly last weekend. The neatly painted skip wagon has now returned to the rails, and is living with the rest of the V skips out in the compound (but showing their tatty paintwork up a bit)


A private party had organised a hog roast at the railway which took place in our yard, as well as the hog roast tent, there was a beautiful scratch-built model steam crane, which was working on compressed air.






Sunday 14 March 2010

Spring Diesel Gala

Todays locomotives, in this order, were: Loweco, Druid, Odin, Atlas, Little Ruston, Vulcan, Druid + Baguley, Odin + Atlas, Baguley + Loweco, Little Ruston, Atlas, Loweco + Odin, Atlas, and then Atlas again as we put things away.

Much fun was had, despite the fact the Gogo tractor wouldn't work so couldn't haul a train as hoped.

The skip display wagon seemed to go down well at Narrow Gauge North, and made a fine sight with it's accompanying display boards.

All my pictures are on the 2010 spring diesel gala page on the website: http://abbeylightrailway.webs.com/dieselgala2010.htm

Thanks to all those that attended, especially the couple that drove all the way from Carlisle especially!

Sunday 7 March 2010

7.3.10

Today's locomotive was Atlas, and the train ran busy all day. We didn't have a single empty train until the very last trip returning to the shed.


The V skip has been loaded into the trailer and is almost ready for display, just the displays to go inside the skip body required now to complete. It looked very good this afternoon outside in the sunshine.



The muir hill has had the bits of its chassis painted with red oxide where it was missing, and the unpainted wheelset has been brought to the front of the shed for cleaning and painting, and a start has been made on this as well. Also the Gogo tractor's carburetter has been cleaned out, in readiness for it to be in action next weekend.

NEXT WEEKEND

Narrow Gauge North railway exhibition, and our own Diesel Gala, where all locos will be out and sharing the passenger train in various combinations.

Friday 5 March 2010

last weekend, 28.2.10

I wasn't at the railway last weekend, being at Model Rail Scotland in Glasgow instead, but I am told that Atlas worked the passenger train, and painting on the V skip wagon is complete.

On Tuesday I did some further touching up of the skip wagon, and applied an ALR crest sticker to each end. It is looking very nice now, and will be loaded next week in readiness for the exhibition.

Also, at last night's narrow gauge railway scoiety meeting there was mention of a possible visit to the railway by 0-4-0st quarry Hunslet 'Edward Sholto' for later on in the year.

next week's report should be on time and with pictures again, as I'm definately there (and driving!)