Thursday 16/4

A hired digger being used as a weight .....

Thursday 15/1

Geoff priming mouldings for 456

Thursday 18/12

John making brackets for the replica wooden waggon

Wednesday 17/12

Treey painting the beams supporting the workshop overhead crane

Wednesday 12/11

Alex preparing boards on which to store forge tools

Wednesday

Julian & Roger continuing construction .....

Tuesday

NG rail loaded for reuse at Ayle Colliery 

Ayle is a hamlet in the SW corner of Northumberland, 6 miles north of Alston in the NE corner of Cumbria.   Ayle has a drift mine producing anthracite, so is the last working colliery in northern England.

Tuesday

Colin cutting a tenon on an oak rib for the chaldron waggon
(photo courtesy of Dave Dixon)

Thursday

Barry repairing fencing in Marley Hill car park .....
(photo courtesy of Geoff Lowe)

Thursday

Jim sawing bar for bolts

Wednesday

Richard & Ian moving another track panel away from the site of the new shed

Tuesday

Colin checking how the bearing, axles & wheels will fit the chaldron frame