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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Live Steam Locomotives => Topic started by: Jon Cameron on March 04, 2019, 05:08:22 am
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Fantastic. Must be a load off knowing that chore is over until next season.
Wish I could join you all. Have a blast!
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Just a reminder that the pumping station and railway will be open and in full steam tomorrow and Monday. Unfortunately SWMBO has over ruled me, and said something about family time 😀so I won't be running the trains, but I will be popping in with the family over the two days for my kids to have a ride and see the beam engine in steam 😉😀
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Update from the weekend.
Just one more work day until were running trains.
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Joe is that a sweet pea, or Sweet William??
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I hope to get my own one soon on the renovated track too
It is understandable when a new engine roll out is planned
cheers Joe
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You had nice weather and it looked like everyone was having a lot of fun.
A good start for a great steaming season.
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2019 AGM done, a great turnout and some extremely positive discussions had.
Ken Lummas remains Chairman, Lee Bailey Secretary & Derek Forster Treasurer.
Both Derek & Lee are also now club boiler inspectors.
The AGM was closely followed by a great afternoon of test and play, it's safe to say we are in good standing for the new season!
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Looks great!
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A bit more track tinkering tonight.
Work on the turntable completed, it received a coat of red primer
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Ballast going down to dress the track, the track in these areas are quite stable so a top dressing and shoulder is all that's required.
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A bit more involved work on the up line to the boiler house wall, the track required bending as it was more like the big dipper on this stretch. Also sleepers added and ballasted and tamped down
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Our Secratary @LeeBailey doing his late night track shuffle
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This shows the track layout better. The tracks merge at the boiler house wall and both share the innermost rail as their outside rail. Turntable and sidings at both ends. And then a shed road to the club house where a couple of coaches are stored.
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Jon what a great place place for a railway. In the photos there are
two sets of tracks are they both in use?
Yes one is the up line, the other is the down line. There is a turntable at each end of the track, for turning the locos and carriages
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Jon what a great place place for a railway. In the photos there are
two sets of tracks are they both in use?
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I couldn't attend the workday on Saturday, but here are the photos and video of the days working.
https://youtu.be/N9KzXGj2XHQ
It's all about trackwork, there will not be much more trackwork this winter, as we are due to open for public running on the 21st April 😊
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Joe that's a railway to keep an eye on, some beautiful locos and great progress on the track.
Thanks for your Kind worrds. Most People who like to be pulled arround by our beloved Little Trains donīt even know that thereīs a lot of MOW to do . RC modellers with cars planes and boats havenīt to build a new infrastructure like the Railway enthusiasts have to do but I suppose it is worth the effort because if there are no rails , journeys are impossible.
cheers Joe
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Nice to see another pumping station railway!!
I hope to have a ride on it when i eventually get up that way and visit.
Yould be more than welcome, I'll be posting the running dates for this year. So far there has been three additional working dates added to the calendar, one of these been this coming Thursday, to try and get the work done to get it running for public.
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Joe that's a railway to keep an eye on, some beautiful locos and great progress on the track.
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Itīs us too to build a nearly complete new track : after a felling Action of three ill trees on the property of our MES we had to renew a lot of track and landscape . Nowadays after six working Weekends we have some new track layed out to get the ball running at Summer , but it is still a lot to do Please feel free to see the enormous effort invested untill today at https://www.minibahn-emden.de/ to see the tremendous effort done in the last two months From Bomb crater back to landscape with rails Needs a bit new green but otherwise it really made a lot of progress.
cheers Joe
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Nice to see another pumping station railway!!
I hope to have a ride on it when i eventually get up that way and visit.
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A Stirling effort today by Tees Cottage Pumping Station Dave Smart & his Northumbrian Water volunteer team, opening up possibilities for new steaming bays and storage expansion - thanks guys!
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The turntable now ready to run. Just a rub down and paint and will be looking smart 😊
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The shed road received a little ballast to fill in the gaps and to make a firm base for the freshly painted carriages to come out and play.
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Another workday at Tees Cottage Railway. More work on the turntable by Lee Bailey and Derek Forster, to strengthen and add support for when the bar is used to push it around. Also completed one of the lift up ends to stop the turntable dragging, with the prep work completed for the other end.
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After a couple months of sleeper replacement, it was a change for me to do a spot of digging. The section laid next to the telegraph poles has been dug out to the level of the sleepers, this means that there is no risk of carriages/riding trucks fouling the soil.
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Many hands helping means you will get it in great shape for the future...huge project, but worthy of the time, effort and cost.
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Looks good Jon, I must pay a visit over the summer hols.
Please do, it would be nice to meet you in person after knowing you from the Mamod forums for a few years. I will publish the running dates in a post on this thread. 😊
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Looks good Jon, I must pay a visit over the summer hols.
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Just a couple more photos of the turntable ends.
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Kevin it needed to be done, a trip to Tees Cottage Pumping Station wouldn't be complete without seeing the railway running, and it had gotten into a poor state, which since December we have worked to pull around and make a comfortable ride, and also improve some wobbly bits.
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Thanks Dave only got home half hour ago, but since the weather was dubious tonight, we decided on doing some other work instead, inside the shed, well actually the carriages were painted outside on the bike lift table bench. Eventually this will be used as a transfer ramp to get locos onto the track from the car without lifting. One of the to do jobs during this year hopefully. Swinging a 7.1/4" sweet william on a sheet of metal on a stack of pallets is certainly something none of us are happy about!!!!!!
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Jon its Nice to see a dedicated bunch beavering away in the workshop.
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Really nice work!
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Also the rolling stock received a fresh coat of paint in Apple green three coaches, and a riding truck, the underframe and bogies will also receive a coat of black gloss to make them look all lovely. And the buffers will be painted....well....buffer red of course
We are also discussing recovering the seats in black leather.
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Tonight further work on the turntable, Lee is seen making adjustments to the two peices of track that were cut off the turntable. These will be turned into two lift up sections that is hoped to be operated by a lever eventually. They will locate with the downward tabs which are bent out at about 10° so will be self aligning when dropped onto the track.
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Enjoyed catching up with this Jon.
Thanks Jim glad your enjoying 😀
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Thanks for keeping up with the updates Jon - you and the other members are doing a great service for not only yourselves but the public in general in keeping the railway alive and running.
The railway and club was on its last legs, hopefully the railway will now be good for another 60years with routine maintenance. There is expansion planned, and hopefully I'll be making a start on my own little petrol electric loco soon. Just been drawing it out last night.
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Enjoyed catching up with this Jon.
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Thanks for keeping up with the updates Jon - you and the other members are doing a great service for not only yourselves but the public in general in keeping the railway alive and running.
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You've all done a great job Jon very well done. What great pics of that fine family of yours, I'm jealous...
Why thank you they are a lovely bunch (at times😂), as for the railway we ain't finished yet and still have a few more work days before our first public running. More sleepers will be replaced and we'll try get as far as we can with straightening out the track. The next section is quite a rollercoaster, and the worst of the line.
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You've all done a great job Jon very well done. What great pics of that fine family of yours, I'm jealous...
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Glad you're here Jon. I love Tees updates!
Thank you Dave, I will be posting more updates as and when but for now these are the milestones that we have achieved since starting in December. 😊
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Great pic's Jon. I'm looking forward to the opening day this year.
It will be great to see you, your more than welcome along😊
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Great video Jon of a lovely miniature railway. Loads of work keeping on top of maintaining a miniature railway but worth it.
Unforunately there's been a major lack of maintenance in recent years, the track has been in place for 30years, over that time it's had a lot of use, where sleepers need replacing these are been done, and new ballasted added to stabilise the track. A lot of work indeed, but it's actually great fun.
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This is the work that's been carried out at Tees Cottage so far. More work will continue through the year making more improvements, our first public running day is bank holiday Easter weekend where Tees Cottage Pumping Station will be open and with the beam and gas engine all running, as are we. 😀 feel free to come along and enjoy a ride.
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03/02/19
Today was another workday at tees cottage. 80 more 3x2" sleepers cut to size and creosoted. A few of the freshly done sleepers were put straight into action and replaced rotten, or missing sleepers along the track. This was a bumpy section of track so it was raised up and sleepers packed, seems to be a lot better now. Only around 10meters of track done today, but educating one of our new members on how to do it right.
The turntable has been receiving some heavy engineering works, having new angle sections welded in. As unfortunately a lot of the subframe after 30years use had succumbed to the rust mites. All welded up the base was blasted over with a wire brush in the angle grinder and received a treatment of red oxide paint and the pivot loaded up with molyslip grease, and remounted onto the pivot. The coaches and turntable will receive a coat of Apple green paint, as I found out today that's the club's colour. The coaches most likely been done next Thursday night.
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18/02/19
A veritable treat for you this week guys, our first club running day, along with visiting engines from Sunderland Model Engineers.
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Quick update
We have lifted and relaid 80 foot of track so far. There is another 90 foot that has been lifted (despite the snow) and the 3.1/2" rail and old screws cut out of it, new sleepers screwed on and awaiting the ground to thaw out to dig and ballast ready for the panels.
The pumping station looks quite nice with a sprinkling of snow
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Also the river Skerne froze over it was that cold
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19/01/19 Well another day on site at Tees Cottage, last working day, there was a derailment of the works train along the boiler house wall. This was caused by more rotten sleepers, with the ground dug out under the track, the rusted screw heads cut off. More sleepers were cut to length and treated to a dose of creosote. The untreaded sleepers are solid oak, these will last some time without any need for treatment. Also as an extra safety precaution. Metal sleeper ties have been welded in place. This will hold the gauge across the two track sections and prevent them from ever spreading again. This unfortunately has taken most of the day to complete this small section of track.
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[attachimg=1][attachimg=2][attachimg=3][attachimg=4]13/01/19 An impromptu working day today, track panels going down. Onto the next 80ft of track
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Glad you're here Jon. I love Tees updates!
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10/01/18 Our first evening working at Tees Cottage, and a lot achieved.
Three outdoor security lights wired in, and one PIR sensor fitted to the front security light. x87 sleepers cut to length and creosoted, half of the track panels lifted last weekend, redrilled to accept the sleepers, and the 3.1/2" gauge trackpeice has been removed, the Tees cottage railway will become solely 5" & 7.1/4" gauge running lines with a short section of 3.5" for displaying visiting 3.1/2" gauge locos. Lots done tonight.
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06/1/19 More track work today,
We attempted to pack the sleepers up to level the track, however all we found was rotten wood, this has called for drastic measures. Over the 15mtr section that was lifted we only recovered one peice of wood that could have been called a sleeper, the rest was soft rotted remains of timbers.
The track has been lifted in 2.5mtr sections, the old screws that were rusted or broken will be punched out or ground out. And new 3x2" sleepers will be attached next week.
The ground under the track was dug out and a fresh layer of ballast was laid to form the bed for the sleepers to lay on, levelled and tamped down firm.
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Great pic's Jon. I'm looking forward to the opening day this year.
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Today at Tees Cottage we decided to have a private play day instead of just working, our way to see 2018 out, and welcome in the changes of 2019 [emoji unicode-emoji="1f60a"]1f60a[/emoji] A great fun day, and even the kids got to have a drive, under supervision of course.
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Great video Jon of a lovely miniature railway. Loads of work keeping on top of maintaining a miniature railway but worth it.
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16/12/18 Gauge testing of the big engine, and I also got a little drive of it. Which was great fun.
More pics to follow.
https://youtu.be/yMiFfB-5mnw
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08/12/18 Today, work began on improvements and modifications to the Tees Cottage Model Railway, ran and maintained by the Cleveland Association of Model Engineers. With our new secretary Lee Bailey, officially named last night. Work has begun, to bring the running standards upto scratch for next year's season.
The first order of the day, is track maintenance, there is a lot of ballast to renew, as well as rotten sleepers. The 3.1/2" track it has been decided will be cut out, leaving just the 5" and 7.1/4" gauge lines. The 3.1/2" track is segmented, and does not consist of a full run only a few meters.
The line is 1/4mile total length, with double end to end run of track, running from the entrance of the pumping station. It has two turntables which will require work in the future both for safety and to ease the work on the guys turning it. The largest has been down for 30years and is in need of work to bring it up to scratch, new decking boards been a minimum, as the ones in place are past their best after 30years use.
A small beginning, relaying fresh ballast ready to replace sleepers as required. Then we will focus on levelling the track and sorting the super elevation out on the corners.
I will keep this thread updated with progress and pictures as work is carried out.
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