Churnet Valley Railway General Discussion

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Winter Steam by 87004 posted Jan 18, 2015 at 6:05 PM

Nice afternoon at the railway today. Lovely warm steam heated compartment. Even had a little snow. Quite atmospheric.

 

Website undergone bit of a winter overhaul. Dining, Education & Wedding pages updated, and "Locomotives" been updated slightly too though I'm waiting for the TKh lads to get back as I don't know their full history.

 

Another lineside clearance day ahead of the main running season. Picture 1 is from November, Picture 2 is last night.

 

Looks like you have had a bonfire. Good work for a cold day.

 

I think we set a record for what we burnt on Sunday. Still plenty for you to play with on 11th though

 

Wintry showers in the moorlands today. Mostly spend around the yard at Chedd replacing crossing timbers. We were missing the chisels for cutting out slots for the chairs so had to make do with an axe.

 

Love the double rainbow pic, where was it taken?

 

Close to the line of the former Ashbourne to Rocester line, by the bridge over the Dove at Ellastone.

 

Dodging some of the showers today on the pway I popped in the carriage shed to see the progress on M35473. The carriage sides had been replated where required and now the carriage ends were been stripped back.

 

One working, seven watching and one taking piccies!
https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/churnet-valley-railway.177295/page-28#post-1061661

 

Standard Railway practice

 

Many years ago, at Swanage Railway, we managed to 'set-up' someone with 18 looking on but, unfortunately, none of the 18 had a camera.
I hope you can imagine the scene - but not the resultant language !

 

To be fair to the gang - this is a case of every picture does not tell a story. We were working in two gangs but the four on the crossing timbers furthest away from the camera had to stop work while some shunting took place. Naturally they came across to see how the job should be done.

 

Standard practice in British Industry for many a year.

I assume there were a few more off somewhere making the Tea and a couple more down the Pub or at the Bookies?

 

Lets get this straight, having already changed our first crossing timber we were making sure that they were up to our standard, but as you see they failed.
Only 1 man missing and he was sorting out the timber spikes, 10 turned out not bad considering the weather.

 

I was only joshing fella, if I'd been down there I'd have been in the Boat at Chedd!

 

Modesty doesn't prevent me from admitting that I was the one doing the work! .... and contrary to Jeff's claim, our timber was a far superior fit

 

Been a busy month considering it's the quiet season!

CVR January 2015 Activities

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Bright and sunny for a change and the day spent replacing a chair at the points at Froghall. The first challenge was to find one of the right sort and this gave us a hunt in the brambles where we thought there might be one. While we were doing this two carriages were being loaded for their journey to North Norfolk railway. Having found the right chair and removed it from the rails in the brambles all we had to do was fit it where it belonged. Again we end up with a few watchers and fewer workers in the photograph.