Wensleydale Railway - Photo Archive
June 2018
Photographs
This month we have:-
1. The 'bubblecar' 121032 has now been repainted in dark green.
2. Various diesel locomotives on the line.
3. The Leeming Bar Community Coach in its new paintwork.
4. The new General Manager helping out.
5. Final trackwork to allow the new Leeming Bar shed to be fully used.
6. A ground survey was carried out at Leeming Bar as part of the process for the application of a Heritage Lottery Grant.
7. Vegetation removal.
8. Work by the Direct Works Team - mainly work on the ex Wickham trolley shed being rebuilt at Scruton.
9. An article from the 1931 Meccano Magazine about Wickham trolleys both on our line and the old Nidd Valley line.
10. Work by the Infrastructure Team
Ref - 3579
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Newly repainted 'bubble' 121032 arrives at Leyburn on its first day back in service on the 0945 Leeming Bar-Redmire. (23/06/2018)
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Ref - 3579
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Newly repainted 'bubble' 121032 arrives at Leyburn on its first day back in service on the 0945 Leeming Bar-Redmire. (23/06/2018)
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Ref - 3580
Photo - Andy Glendinning
121032 stands at Redmire on its first day in service after repainting. (23/06/2018)
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Ref - 3581
Photo - Andy Chapman
The 'bubblecar' 121032 has now been repainted in dark green. Seen here on a service train (26/06/2018)
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Ref - 3582
Photo - Andy Glendinning
20166 slows to pick up at Finghall Lane on the 1215 Leeming Bar-Redmire. (05/06/2018)
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Ref - 3583
Photo - Andy Glendinning
20166 ready to depart Remire with the 1705 to Leeming Bar. (06/06/2018)
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Ref - 3584
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Recently delivered 33065 in the yard at Leeming Bar. (06/06/2018)
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Ref - 3585
Photo - Andy Glendinning
D9523 at Leyburn on the 1100 Redmire-Leeming Bar. (16/06/2018)
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Ref - 3586
Photo - Andy Glendinning
47715 passes Finghall Lane with the 1540 Leeming-Redmire. (26/06/2018)
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Ref - 3587
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Last day in service on the WR? 47715 stands at Redmire after working the 1540 from Leeming Bar (30/06/2018)
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Ref - 3588
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Last working? 47715 at the head of the 1705 Redmire-Leeming Bar. (30/06/2018)
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Ref - 3589
Photo - Andy Glendinning
47715 in the yard at Leeming Bar. (02/07/2018)
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Ref - 3590
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Leeming Bar Community Hub coach looking smart with new paintwork. (19/06/2018)
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Ref - 3591
Photo - Bob Coombs
Our new General Manager (Richard Brown) helping out with carriage cleaning (30/06/2018)
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Ref - 3592
Photo - Alastair Connell
The Infrastructure Team working on the last section of the point at Leeming Bar yard for the second track into the new shed (16/06/2018)
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Ref - 3593
Photo - Alastair Connell
The Infrastructure Team working on the last section of the point at Leeming Bar yard for the second track into the new shed (16/06/2018)
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Ref - 3594
Photo - Andy Chapman
The finished point in Leeming Bar yard leading to the second road into the new shed. The shed and associated work has now been completed and the shed can now be used fully for its maintenance and other purposes (26/06/2018)
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Ref - 3595
Photo - Ian Yale
Both roads in the new Leeming Bar shed are now in use (26/06/2018)
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Ref - 3596
Photo - Ian Yale
Both roads in the new Leeming Bar shed are now in use (26/06/2018)
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Ref - 3597
Photo - David Walker
LEEMING BAR STATION GROUND SURVEY - Contractors spent the day sending probes and cctv cameras down the drains to identify where they run and any problems with them. Phil Harrison of the HLF Leeming Bar Project Design Team keeps an eye on the progress of the ground survey (18/06/2018)
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Ref - 3598
Photo - David Walker
LEEMING BAR STATION GROUND SURVEY - Contractors spent the day sending probes and cctv cameras down the drains to identify where they run and any problems with them. (18/06/2018)
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Ref - 3599
Photo - David Walker
LEEMING BAR STATION GROUND SURVEY - Contractors spent the day sending probes and cctv cameras down the drains to identify where they run and any problems with them. Markings on the ground showed what they found (18/06/2018)
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Ref - 3600
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Emergency vegetation clearance after winds had brought down some branches. (16/06/2018)
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Ref - 3601
Photo - Andy Glendinning
Tree feller(s), but there were only two of us. Vegetation clearance in the Crakehall area to get rid of tree branches which had been brushing the sides of the trains. (02/07/2018)
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Ref - 3602
Photo - John Tong
The Scruton Log Store filled (13/06/2018)
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Ref - 3603
Photo - John Tong
The Wickham Trolley shed roof A frames painted by the Direct Works Team (13/06/2018)
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Ref - 3604
Photo - John Tong
More Wickham Trolley shed metal posts have been rust proof painted by the Direct Works Team (13/06/2018)
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Ref - 3605
Photo - John Tong
The Direct Works Team dismantling an old Garden Shed which has been donated to the railway to recover its corrugated metal sections for use at Scruton (13/06/2018)
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Ref - 3606
Photo - John Tong
The Wickham Trolley shed metal frame being laid out at Scruton by the Direct Works Team (20/06/2018)
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Ref - 3607
Photo - John Tong
The Wickham Trolley shed frame sections being bolted together at Scruton by the Direct Works Team (20/06/2018)
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Ref - 3608
Photo - John Tong
The Wickham Trolley shed Rear Window frame being painted by the Direct Works Team (20/06/2018)
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Ref - 3609
Photo - John Tong
State of corrugated metal panels recovered from the old Wickham Trolley shed (20/06/2018)
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Ref - 3610
Photo - John Tong
The Direct Works Team dismantling an old Garden Shed which has been donated to the railway to recover its corrugated metal sections for use at Scruton (20/06/2018)
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Ref - 3611
Photo - John Tong
Work begins on the Wickham Trolley shed base at Scruton by the Direct Works Team (27/06/2018)
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Ref - 3612
Photo - John Tong
The Wickham Trolley shed Base is layed at Scruton by the Direct Works Team (27/06/2018)
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Ref - 3613
Photo - Timothy Edwards
An article in the July 1931 Meccano Magazine concerning the use of Wickam Trolleys on our line. If you wish to read more Meccano Magazines online see https://meccanoindex.co.uk/ (--/07/1931)
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Ref - 3614
Photo - Timothy Edwards
An article in the July 1931 Meccano Magazine concerning the use of Wickham Trolleys on our line. If you wish to read more Meccano Magazines online see https://meccanoindex.co.uk/ (--/07/1931)
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Ref - 3615
Photo - Alastair Connell
Due to an emergency rail defect at Preston under Scar, some rails were 'borrowed from the Redmire loop to allow this defect to be repaired - until this was done no trains could run past Leyburn. This picture shows the rails on a trolley at Redmire ready to be pushed to the site of the defect. (08/06/2018)
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Ref - 3616
Photo - Alastair Connell
Due to an emergency rail defect at Preston under Scar, some rails were 'borrowed from the Redmire loop to allow this defect to be repaired - until this was done no trains could run past Leyburn. This picture shows the rails removed from the sleepers at Redmire ready to be transported to the work site (08/06/2018)
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Ref - 3617
Photo - Ian Yale
The infrastructure team loading some 30ft lengths of rails onto trolleys ready to be taken up to Redmire (09/06/2018)
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Ref - 3618
Photo - Ian Yale
The infrastructure team have taken some 30ft lengths of rails onto trolleys to Redmire to fit back in the passing loop. The rails had been previously 'borrowed' from here for an urgent rail replacement at Preston under Scar. (09/06/2018)
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Ref - 3619
Photo - Ian Yale
The rails have now been put into the Redmire passing loop to replace rails taken to elsewhere for an urgent rail replacement job (09/06/2018)
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Ref - 3620
Photo - Andy Chapman
What must surely be one of the oldest chairs on the line - a North Eastern Railway chair dated 1889 (09/06/2018)
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Ref - 3621
Photo - Andy Chapman
Before - The infrastructure have marked up a number of sleepers to be replaced (26/06/2018)
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Ref - 3622
Photo - Andy Chapman
After - The infrastructure team have now replaced the bad sleepers (26/06/2018)
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