Aln Valley Railway

Longhoughton Goods Yard - DS, BS, TS, DT and SY, continuation of general tasks as required, A reasonable day mainly sunny. All attention focused on the new arrival; the Operations Department’s tractor – trying to get her started was a bit of a pain until it was realised the pull stop works in reverse on these engines (i.e. pull to start)! Once we had the engine going it took a bit more head scratching to work out the hydraulics, but once we had had everything working Baz was happily moving the soil fill around…