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fishplate oiling and changing underway, finally the Santa season is upon us,so most of the volunteers work is on getting the place ready for this..... on signalling and telecommunications, david and jim have been working away in Rowsley exchange, repairing various telecomunications items . finally move the batteries out the old cupboard at darley so that the location can be removed for bens footbridge. The group were working upon the National Railway museum coach,the side skins are on and the work looks realy really great,cant wait to see that finished. the railway and the adjacent roofing buisness who share the access road to rowsley have complained to the council (theyre road) about the state of the surface again,awaiting action.
the other train ready to start button was fitted to the platform fencing at darley dale,this makes one in the middle and one at the end of the platform depending on the consist/rake set up. ive undertaken to do more clearing out from under darley ex bamford signalbox,its now empty ready for lifting,which will be next year now. You can choose your delivery options in your Giftware Wales shopping basket and apply the qualifying code. the gate wheel is now complete and it is planned to mount this upstairs in church lane box over the end of christmas week.fit a wooden location over the electric supply board under darley dale box so that it can then stand alone when the box comes down. Hopefully soon some more news on the footbridge as Bens down over Christmas and he has a recovery on the way over january to do with this, he may also be working on the station lamps at Darley Dale over Christmas.
hoping for a january/february date for possible inspection of token works if the inspector is free,still working on final paperwork upon this to various departments happiness levels. some gates still to fit to the down platform fence at darley as well as cut the metal tubular gate posts down to size.The morning was spent taking the kids on the Santa Special, they seemed to have enjoyed themselves with the clowns,magic artists,Santa,presents,sweets and all provided and the trains all day were full,i believe that the bookings are well full this year which is probably the same around the country with the reccession and all Work continues on electrics for the inside ,the machine tools are all laid out ready for wiring in. on the narrow gauge the volunteers have gained some waggon chassis complete from a quarry in derbyshire (cannot say where at present,an article on this should appear in the PEAK EXPRESS sometime. work on getting the box moved to rowsley isnt standing still,early days yet but there may be more news on this in the new year,things are at present being planned out so to speak.