Aln Valley Railway

Longhoughton Goods Yard - BS, DMS, IC, TS, KSW, MH, laying out sidings; cleaning the Mk 1 roof; rubbing down Mk 1 sides; rewiring 48DS; continue overhaul of dumper; check over rail crane; tidy access road and yard; check over Mk 2 coaches, Baz, Dave and Ian modified the tempory hi-viz mesh fence at the top on the Network Rail road. Tom tweaked the dumper and tidied up rubbish, etc. from round site. Kay applied a temporay coat of paint to the Mark 2 TO to cover the graffitti. A start was made on moving newly aquired rail (cheers NwR!) to the stock pile. Mark arrived and he and Dave popped over to Boulmer to collect some more spare wood, returning at Lunch time. After lunch we continued moving track materials to the correct stockpiles. Tom and Baz then had an operations meeting to decide how to go about installing a modified gate to accept large low loaders, and then then set about tidying the Northern end of the site. Dave & Ian helped Kay sweep about half of the TO clean of shards of glass (from the windows).

Longhoughton Goods Yard - CDO, JRS, BS, KM, KSW, DT, TS, the delivery and unloading of the Mk 2 coaches, assited Allelys with the unloading at Longhoughton

Longhoughton Goods Yard - CDO, JRS, DMS, BS, KM, KSW, DT, TS, the delivery and unloading of the Mk 2 coaches, After Craig, Julie and Dave had helped Allelys load at Silverlink we joined the others at to assit with loading at the unloading at

Longhoughton Goods Yard - KM, BS, DMS, TS, KSW, DT, IC, MH, laying out sidings; cleaning the Mk 1 roof; rubbing down Mk 1 sides; rewiring 48DS; check over rail crane; moving materials; tidying access road and yard, Two of the Permaquip B trolleys were unloaded and lifted over onto road 2. The crane was used to lift the van body and the trolleys were put underneath and then they were pushed up to south end of the siding. the crane was then pushed up seperatley. With a bit of lifting and slewing the van was positioned as close as possible to the designated site, and then pushed over with pinch bars.

Longhoughton Goods Yard - TS, DMS, MH, the movement of a van body, Tom assisted the hi-ab driver with the move from Colliery Farm to Longhoughton. Dave arrived after it had been unloaded and so instead tidied up items round the yard. Mark popped in during his dinner break and lent a hand.

Longhoughton Goods Yard - BS, DMS, IC, TS, laying out sidings; cleaning the Mk 1 roof; rubbing down Mk 1 sides; rewiring 48DS; refit hose to tractor; continue overhaul of dumper; check over rail crane; tidy access road and yard, Baz worked on completing the partition in the staff mark 1 and also continued tidying up. Dave and Ian continued with the restoration of Scarth, the dumper (in working order), which included cleaning and greasing, changing the gear and diff oil, adjusting the fuel pump and govenor, and preparing for the refitting of the air cooling system. The tractor was also returned to use with the fitting of the replacement hydrauluc hose on the front loader. Tom made a start on sorting out items at the north end of the site, moving the smaller items (such as chairs and bolts) to store, and we will move some of the larger items (sleepers & rail) next weekend. The area for the Van Body was also cleaned up a bit with the vegitation cut back. Some sleepers were laid out at the north end of siding 3 and two lenghts of rail moved up from the stockpile, turned in, clipped and one cut down to length (also removing a poor weld) to bring this up to the required size for the two mark 2s. A second hand small gas cooker has been provided by Ian, and this has been cleaned up and once tested will be installed in the staff coach to replace the current camp stove. A NENTA charter passed both ways (1Z20 & 1Z22) formed of 47853 + 9494, 5959, 5954, 6110, 6720, 3318, 3388, 1680, 3400, 3414 + 47805, with the driver giving a nice hello blast!

Longhoughton Goods Yard - BS, DMS, TS, PD, continuation of laying out sidings; cleaning the Mk 1 roof; rubbing down Mk 1 sides; rewiring 48DS, The Dumper is now working but is on restricted use until the cooling system is refitted. 37995 is out of action until a hydraulic hose is renewed.