Aln Valley Railway

Longhoughton Goods Yard - BS, DMS, IC, KSW, TS, Continue siding layout, Baz and Dave made a start on tidying up the “”clean”" end of the staff coach. Ian arrived and he and Dave popped to station cottages to collect the scaffolding tower and some loco spare parts. On return the scaffolding was errected to enable Dave to clean out the gutters on the staff coach, while Ian and Baz set about installing fishplates on siding 3 to enable it to be slewed slightly. Baz also graded some land to enable better road access by low loaders. The crane has been moved back to the middle of the yard to give access to the South end of sidings 1 & 2 which are to be slewed in the near future to try and prevent fouling with siding 3. Tom was continuing the overhaul of the dumper and Kay was contiuing beutification of the 165DE.