As another week passes by, here’s a roundup of what’s been
happening.
Thursday saw the arrival of the much anticipated delivery of
sleepers which will allow for sleeper changing operations to take place of the
time between now and Easter – which isn’t very long now, only another two
weeks! Permanent Way also fitted a point lever to the mainline set of points,
allowing for easier access and point locking to this set. In other news,
Manrider 104 had its problematic axle seen to, which resolved to a welding job
taking place on the end axle box hanger box.
Today’s working plan was to get Manrider 104 back on all
fours and get proving runs in to officially pass the vehicle off as fit for
traffic this season. As with all jobs, it wasn’t finishing without a good
fight, several stages of ups and downs on the jacks before the axle was
positioned exactly in the right place in relation to the body, and up it glided
into the chassis slides. Next, the plan was after passing the No. 2 end off as
fit, No. 1 end had to be jacked up to fix a slide slop in the axle hanger box,
this in turn causing the wheel to rumble, having found a solution to this
problem, the only other job was to replace the end nuts and split pins, which
as on every 50 year old vehicle wasn’t as easy as it sounds, taking the job
into the lunch break. Having passed both ends as fit, the vehicle was coupled
with ZM32 and proving runs undertaken, all proved satisfactory, a resounding
success for the team after the work undertaken in getting Manrider 104
serviceable.
In other news, Permanent Way were seeing to the point levers
going to be used for the passing loop above Recreation Ground, which, at first
had to fished out the bushes of Dark Lane, before being brought to Steeplehouse
for maintenance and renovation.
A great week for the team of volunteers at the SGLR, now, here’s
to another!
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| Carrying out work on No. 1 End |
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| Manrider 104 on the traverser at Steeplehouse |
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| Late Afternoon proving run to Sandy Lane |
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| ZM32 and Hibberd 4008 return to Steeplehouse |
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| The new point lever fitted at Steeplehouse (Photo : Robin Jeffcoat) |
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