Marley Hill Work

Jim trying a reamer in a hole in HC 38's frames .....

..... & preparing to bore a bracket for the valve
motion weighshaft to be mounted there

Mick & Peter test fitting Horden's new dome cover .....

..... before soft hammering to adjust it

Mick, Peter & Jim discussing work on Horden

Dennis, Ian & Cameron starting to clean half of one of the pits in Marley Hill shed

I'm trying to clean the pit wall
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

Dennis pre-soaking the wall
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

Ian unfastening a bearing holding the line shaft .....
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

..... alongside Cameron, in MH shed
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

Geoff holding one of their ladders

Ian lifting the lineshaft & pulleys with the digger

Geoff helping Cameron on another section of
lineshaft, all of which we installed in the 1970s