The above picture shows what will be happening 

 Frank (on the left) and Barry are busy cutting out the marker pegs. 

 

Barry busy doing some marking out. 

 

Plenty of activity on Sunday 30th February as the first of the concrete sleepers is put into place.

 

 Ashley, Master digger driver, manoeuvres another sleeper into position.  

Concrete bases disappear into the distance. Gary on the left with his measuring gear while Frank and Steve, stoke the fire. 

The line starts to snake off round the site. Looking good boys!. 

As you can see we made quite a lot progress. Further reports as and when. Keep watching these pages 

Trevor and Barry laying concrete for one of the track support bases.

Gary with his measuring equipment checls his calculations. 

Steve, Barry and Trevor level off another cement track base. About seven at a time are laid.

Ashley and Steve pour another mix. The track bed can be seen snaking off on the left of the picture. 

Graham Jones cleans off excess cement from some of our world war 2 M.O.D light weight sleepers with some assistance from Oliver!.

Track bed supports all in place ready for the sleepers. 

Further sleepers being put into place. 

Jim Lovell has made a rather excellent rail bender which he is demonstrating to Gary, Owen and Graham.

Here you can see the track laying gang in action. The small person in green is track inspector Oliver!. 

The old line has been disconnected and the extension is curving off on its new formation.

Concrete bases in position ready to receive further concrete sleepers.

The new line moves ever close to the existing track.

The limit of track as of 27th February 2011.

Further pictures taken on the 20th March 2011. We were stuck for some more concrete sleepers but thanks to Andrew Harvey this have now arrived and fairly soon the new track bed will all be in place.

What a fine body of men!. L to R, Steve, Frank, Trevor and Barry. All have worked extremely hard on this project.

...... we must not forget of course, Ashley who has also worked very hard and put in a lot of time. Here you can see him cutting up some breeze blocks.

 

 April 3rd 2011.

Trevor and Frank have been busy laying slabs in front of our station. The concrete track base is now complete and tracklaying will commence shortly.

 

 Well here we are on a lovely sunny day ( Sunday 10th April) and with the track work now complete its time for some testing. Peter goes for a spin with Gary. 

Jim Lovell tries out his prairie tank. First impression were that considering that the track is not fully fixed down or fettled yet, the running was extremely good.  

 Trevor and Frank putting the finishing touches to the station. 

What a fine body of men. From left to right. Frank, Barry,Trevor, Jim, Peter,Gary and Graham  .

The first train around the circuit was "Denise" the diesel driven by Frank with Oliver as passenger. It was Oliver's fourth birthday so "Happy Birthday" to Oliver.

 Jim's Express Parcels railcar gets a spin on the 3.5 i