A Quiet Day

Richard working on Horden's smokebox

General Work

Ian profiling the other tyre on the carriage wheelset

TripAdvisor

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Wednesday Work

Ian profiling a carriage tyre .....

Pipe, Bridge, Wheelset & other work

Ian & Brian discussing adjustments
to HL No.2's main steam pipes

Bank Holiday Monday Mix

Steve filling Twizell's mechanical oiler .....
(photo courtesy of Malcolm Parker)

Sunday Mix

Angela on AW No.2 shunting timbers
for Houghwell Burn bridge
(photo courtesy of Malcolm Parker)

Odd Jobs

One man meant to mow
- Malcolm at Andrews House

Trains on Bank Holiday Weekend

Twizell will haul trains from Andrews House for Sunniside and Causey at 11 am, 12.15, 1.45, 3 and 4.15 pm on Sunday and Monday.

In addition to our tea room at Andrews House, refreshments will be available from a carriage at Causey station.

There will be no passenger trains beyond Causey due to track relaying on East Tanfield bank.

At 9.30 AW No.2 will take a works train from Andrews House to Causey, and place a refreshment carriage in the bay platform there.  AW No.2 will then take up duty as Causey pilot and works train loco.   The works train will return after the last passenger service.

AW No.2 & Twizell at Causey on 5 May
(photo courtesy of Matthew Pickering)

Coming soon - the Festival of the North East

Houghwell Burn Bridge Reinstatement

The photos below, taken on Tuesday at Houghwell Burn, are all courtesy of Ian Cowan

Nigel, Bob, Angela and Ian removed the old bridge beams, and replaced them with the new ones:

Odd Jobs

Ronnie & Brian .....

Getting Ready

Getting ready for the Festival of the North East including the end of the line animation at Tanfield

The photographs below are all courtesy of Nigel Wheeler

For Festival of the NE, Ken & Geoff  ...

Two shots of today

 Nigel,Bob,Angela and myself replacing the main bridge girders at Houghwell Burn Bridge

Derek will post more over the next day

Camera Club Visits to Tanfield Railway

Many local camera clubs include a visit to Tanfield Railway on their syllabi.   Below are links to some web sites:

Alnwick and District Camera Club

Durham Photographic Society

Map My Photo

Pentax User

Washington Camera Club

Westmoor Camera Club

In addition, several photographers often visit the railway.   I am grateful for the assistance of those who provide photos which feature in our blog posts (eg see yesterday) - more would always be useful!

Forthcoming: 9 June a group of artists will visit; and on weekends this June there will be an animated family adventure as part of the Festival of the North East

Finally, some photographers have their own web sites - there is a link to a list of some of these under the blog title photo - please click the camera icon  at the top of the page.

Yesterday Continued

Marley Hill from a remote control helicopter
(photo courtesy of John Tassell)

Sunday Mix

Cochrane's happy crew draw out the empty stock

Tomorrow's Trains

Sir Cecil A Cochrane will haul trains from Andrews House for Sunniside and Causey at 11 am, 12.15, 1.45, 3 and 4.15 pm.

There will be no passenger trains beyond Causey due to track relaying on East Tanfield bank.   AW No.2 will be Causey pilot loco.

Cochrane at Terrace Junction in February 2013
(photo courtesy of Ken Snowdon)

Rewheeling etc

The reprofiled wheelset being replaced under Ex-MS&L carriage No.8:

Ian removing the wheelset from the lathe ....

Thursday at Tanfield Railway

Happy birthday Vic!
(He had the day off - here on his Fergie last August)

A Wet Wednesday

Richard continuing work on a ground frame

Work Continues

Ian welding gussets to bridge girders .....

Monday Mixture at Marley Hill

Fire extinguishers getting their scheduled check

Sunday around the Railway

John & Neil fixing an airline in the shotblast ..... 

Tomorrow's Trains

HL No.2 will haul trains from Andrews House for Sunniside and Causey at 11 am, 12.15, 1.45, 3 and 4.15 pm.

There will be no passenger trains beyond Causey due to track relaying on East Tanfield bank.   AW No.2 will be Causey pilot loco.

HL No.2 passing Terrace Junction on 24/03/2013
(photo courtesy of Ken Snowdon)

Usual Work

Peter & Ian checking valves on Twizell

North Shields Pier

North Shields pier at the mouth of the Tyne was breached by the great storm of 1897.   The following photos show the usual attire of workers on its rebuilding.

Thursday at Tanfield

Inside, Ronnie drilling a ground frame bracket,

while outside Malcolm's back on the grass

Wednesday Work

Benji, Margaret & Susan planting bluebells at AH

Tuesday Mainly in the Workshop

Dave & Peter discuss Horden's slide bars
and crosshead slippers

May Day

All photographs today are courtesy of Malcolm Parker

This morning, the crew prepare Twizell outside Marley Hill shed:

Angela with the blow down key, checking
Twizell's boiler water level 

Sunday Variety

  

Kyle, Danny and James working on Cochrane 

(photos courtesy of Matthew Pickering)

Trains on Bank Holiday Weekend

Twizell will haul trains from Andrews House for Sunniside and Causey at 11 am, 12.15, 1.45, 3 and 4.15 pm on Sunday and Monday.

There will be no passenger trains beyond Causey due to track relaying on East Tanfield bank.   AW No.2 will be Causey pilot loco.

Twizell being cleaned in Marley Hill shed

Museum Visits

Most of these shots were taken at Summerlee, a 'mini Beamish' on an excavated 1840s ironworks site in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.

An interesting crane with individual drive from three
pairs of cylinders, although the boiler has gone

Quiet Thursday at Marley Hill

Peter working on Horden's horn guides
(photo courtesy of Dave Dixon)

Wednesday Work

Work today mainly continued on the replacement girders for the bridge to span Houghwell Burn

Richard welding gussets