Wensleydale Railway - Photo Archive


Drainage work at Redmire
by the Infrastructure Group
Over the weekend of the 23-26 January 2015 at lot of work was carried out in the Redmire area to improve the drainage along the track. This work had been commenced last year but had not been completed. A digger was hired in in order to complete the job faster. Below you can see a photographic record of the work.

Ref - 1299
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Roger digging the trench with the digger (23/01/2015)
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Ref - 1299
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Roger digging the trench with the digger (23/01/2015)
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Ref - 1300
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - More digging of the ditch on the second day (24/01/2015)
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Ref - 1301
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Photo showing a completed section of the ditch (24/01/2015)
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Ref - 1302
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - A footpath crosses the line at this point (24/01/2015)
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Ref - 1303
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Some fencing was installed adjacent to the footpath in order to direct walkers to cross the track at right angles (24/01/2015)
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Ref - 1304
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Jim digging the trench with the digger (24/01/2015)
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Ref - 1305
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - The end of the ditch (25/01/2015)
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Ref - 1306
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Removing soil in the Redmire railhead from up to and above rail height which had been washed from the road above (25/01/2015)
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Ref - 1307
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - The digger travelling from one job to the next (25/01/2015)
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Ref - 1308
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Digging a trench on the embankment to take a 28.5m length of 300mm dia pipe to prevent flooding in a field with a footpath in it (25/01/2015)
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Ref - 1309
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Digging a trench on the embankment to take a 28.5m length of 300mm dia pipe to prevent flooding in a field with a footpath in it (25/01/2015)
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Ref - 1310
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Installing the new drainage pipe into the trench (25/01/2015)
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Ref - 1311
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - The restored embankment after the drainage pipe has been installed (26/01/2015)
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Ref - 1312
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - The outlet of the drainage pipe beside a small culvert (26/01/2015)
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Ref - 1313
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Cleaning out of a U tube drainage system behind Reedmire House (26/01/2015)
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Ref - 1314
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
The U tube drainage system has been cleaned out and the embankment graded (26/01/2015)
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Ref - 1315
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Ditching on the station road - a bonus job as there was a bit of spare time (26/01/2015)
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Ref - 1316
Photo - Michael Metcalfe
Redmire Drainage work - Pose of the workers (26/01/2015)
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