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Wensleydale Railway - Photo Archive

April 2021 - Part 1

Photographs

During April a large amount of work has been carried out on the railway, much of it in preparation of service trains starting to run towards the end of May. The amount of photos has necessitated them being split over two photo gallery pages.

This month we have (on this page):-
1. Our class 121 Bubblecar is now back with us after repair.
2. Pacers and a class 60 loco at Leeming Bar.
3. The Bedale Station Cafe is doing good business once it was allowed to reopen for outside sitting.
4. Pacer Units at Bedale.
5. Work is progressing well with the overhaul of two Mk2 coaches in the maintenance shed at Leeming Bar.
6. Thanks to an amazing offer from Diamond Rail, our staff and volunteers have been removing the old Moquette from seat cushions so that they can be recovered.
7. Work is progressing on a new toilet block at Leeming Bar.
8. Our new EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) system which is being installed on the railway.
9. New period style light fitted to the outside of Leeming Bar Station House.
10. The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale Station back in good condition for when train services restart.

On the other photo gallery page for this month you will find:-
1. The completion of works on Ham Hall Automatic crossing to allow us to run service trains over it again.
2. We are starting to put pedestrian gates at places where footpaths cross our line - first one near Bedale station
3. The Direct Works Team working at Scruton and Leeming Bar.
4. The Vegetation Team working in the Aiskew area.
5. The Infrastructure Team working in the Aiskew area

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Photo - Unknown Photographer
Our class 121 Bubblecar is now back with us looking good after body repairs at Nemesis Rail in Burton-on-Trent.
We are looking forward to having the bubble car back in traffic! (21/04/2021)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
Our class 121 Bubblecar is now back with us looking good after body repairs at Nemesis Rail in Burton-on-Trent.
We are looking forward to having the bubble car back in traffic! (21/04/2021)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
Our class 121 Bubblecar is now back with us looking good after body repairs at Nemesis Rail in Burton-on-Trent.
We are looking forward to having the bubble car back in traffic! (21/04/2021)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
Our class 121 Bubblecar is now back with us looking good after body repairs at Nemesis Rail in Burton-on-Trent.
We are looking forward to having the bubble car back in traffic! (21/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A view of Leeming Bar platform with several Pacers in the platform and the new shed nicely displaying its NER colour scheme (09/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A view of Leeming Bar platform with the new shed nicely displaying its NER colour scheme (17/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Three of the 6 or more pacer units at Leeming Bar on 5 April. (05/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Three of the 6 or more pacer units at Leeming Bar on 5 April. (05/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Three of the 6 or more pacer units at Leeming Bar on 5 April. (05/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Three of the 6 or more pacer units at Leeming Bar on 5 April. (05/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
EWS locomotive 60050 in the sidings at Leeming Bar (17/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
60050 at the road-rail interface at Leeming Bar on 5 April (05/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
60050 at the road-rail interface at Leeming Bar on 5 April (05/04/2021)
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Photo - David Nunns
Since it has been able to reopen following the Covid lockdown, the Bedale Station cafe has been doing good business (24/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale Station with 144020 parked in the platform. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale Station with 144020 parked in the platform. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - A. Tarran
The Mk2F now sports blue and grey livery on the North side and is not far away from completion. (03/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Mk2F now has lining applied to complete its blue and grey livery. This coach is now nearly complete (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Mk2F now has lining applied to complete its blue and grey livery. This coach is now nearly complete (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Work on this Mk2 coach is progressing well. (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Another view of the Mk2 coach. (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The little office in the maintenance shed is progressing (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
Thanks to an amazing offer of support from Diamond Rail Services, one of the big players in the upholstery industry, we can now proceed with refurbishing two more Mk2 coaches.
To minimise cost several staff and volunteers have been removing the old moquette before they are sent away.
The cost to us is a fraction of the usual price and this has been helped by donations to our shopping list appeal of over £1000 for seating. We still need your support as we have a further £4k to find. (04/04/2021)
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A pile of Mk2 seat cushions that have had their moquette removed. They will be sent to Diamond Rail Services who have given us an amazing offer to recover them at a very low cost. (04/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
Some volunteers busy removing the moquette from Mk2 seat cushions. They will be sent to Diamond Rail Services who have given us an amazing offer to recover them at a very low cost. (09/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A pile of Mk2 seat cushions that have had their moquette removed. They will be sent to Diamond Rail Services who have given us an amazing offer to recover them at a very low cost. (09/04/2021)
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Photo - Unknown Photographer
Thanks to an amazing offer of support from Diamond Rail Services, one of the big players in the upholstery industry, we can now proceed with refurbishing two more Mk2 coaches.
To minimise cost several staff and volunteers have been removing the old moquette before they are sent away. Here is the pile just before they were despatched to be reupholstered
The cost to us is a fraction of the usual price and this has been helped by donations to our shopping list appeal of over £1000 for seating. However we still need your support as we have a further £4k to find. (23/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The building of the new toilet block at Leeming Bar continues apace. The intentions is to have two toilet cubicles ready for when we start running trains towards the end of May (09/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The building of the new toilet block at Leeming Bar continues apace. The intentions is to have two toilet cubicles ready for when we start running trains towards the end of May (09/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The building of the new toilet block at Leeming Bar continues apace. The intentions is to have two toilet cubicles ready for when we start running trains towards the end of May (09/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A week later the building of the new toilet block at Leeming Bar is still going well. (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A week later the building of the new toilet block at Leeming Bar is still going well. (17/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A week later the building of the new toilet block at Leeming Bar is still going well. (17/04/2021)
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Photo - John Tong
The Direct Works Team starting to build a brick facing to the new toilet block at Leeming Bar (21/04/2021)
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Photo - Neil Guest
A new station light attached to Leeming Bar Station House. (28/04/2021)
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Photo - John Tong
The new external light at over the platform at Leeming Bar Station House (28/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (13/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (13/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (13/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (13/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (20/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (20/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (20/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (20/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
A Pacer has been brought to Bedale so that it can be seen what sort of access steps we need as this platform is lower than modern standards. (20/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again.
Here Paul - our gardener is giving the tree that was donated to us by the Bedale Litter Busters some attention (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again.
The shop has been cleared out ready to receive new flooring. Note the new Covid screen around the pay desk. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again.
The shop has been cleared out ready to receive new flooring. Note the new Covid screen around the pay desk. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - Timothy Edwards
The Bedale Station Group have been busy getting Bedale station tidied up, painted and cleaned etc. ready for when trains will be running again. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale Station - discussing the provision of steps for boarding the pacer units. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale Station with 144020 parked in the platform. (27/04/2021)
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Photo - John Slaughter
Bedale Station - preparing for the new operating season by cleaning up the station signage (27/04/2021)
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