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Thursday, 19 September 2013

Thursday at Tanfield Railway

Jan Roos from the Netherlands visited TR because we use AD track fastenings .....
(Jan is pleased with AD fittings which I gave him; AD = Arthur Dean, NER engineer)
..... Jan also enthused over our use of Mills clips, and has
written a book about rail to sleeper fastenings 

(See also Rail fastening systems on Wikipedia)
(Arthur Dean from The Railway - British Track Since 1804 by Andrew Dow, 2014)
Ian parking the muscleman in Causey bay
(no sleeper changing today)
Dave & Ian dropping sleepers in Causey woods
ready for work this weekend
Richard now has the curved bunker plate with
which to start rebuilding Horden's cab
Dan repacking a gauge glass on HL No.2 .....
..... and Tom has fitted new blank plugs to the same