Connecting Tanfield

Digging in, aligning & interleaving ......

..... CS1 sleepers at East Tanfield south point

Bait time for John, Dave, Bill, Geoff, Dan, Bob & Nigel

Nigel cutting rail .....

..... & the team inserting it

Cutting another rail to length

Dave & Geoff drilling a rail end

Geoff & Dan fishplating

Nigel & Bill drilling ......

..... then fishplating, with Dave & Dan helping

Geoff fishplating with Bill helping - connecting
East Tanfield with Causey & beyond
NB there's ballasting & a lot more to do

Vic ready for a day's work

Brian has cut the main steam pipe hole
in Horden's front tubeplate .....

..... and with another job in the lathe