..You need holes in the sleepers, holes in the rails and in the point components! More of this later, but this story starts earlier this year … A group of the Wednesday volunteers have, over recent months, been working on
Track work is boring..
Guest Blog – Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – 18th July 2015 – and Garden Railway Event
A quiet day at the workshop with only three of us in attendance (tho’, to be fair, Latitude was on – ed.). Progressing the toilet building for Wenhaston was the order of the day, James and Bob concentrated on the
Guest Blog – Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – Mid May 2015
Having taken home the pre-bent (by James with a big hammer!) angle iron for the battery tray with me at the end of the last workshop session I spent an interesting evening at home getting back to grips with my
Guest Blog: Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – 18th April 2015
Having missed the first workshop session of the month due to being on a family holiday over Easter I was keen to get going this time to get my homework completed! The linkage between the control unit and the torque
Guest Blog – Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – March 2015
My Journey to Southwold this time was slightly delayed by some domestic challenges so I missed the introductory hot drink. Folk had settled down to various tasks – John sorting the switch panel, and Ken working on the diesel engine
Guest Blog – Mr Awkward’s Workshop Report
A cold, grey, drizzly day (one a Scot would probably describe as dreich) had me heading across to the workshop with more hope than anything else that the control unit I’d left swimming in penetrating oil may be free. The
Guest Blog: Mr Awkward’s Workshop Diary – 24th January 2015
My second visit to the workshop this month, the team are trying a schedule of two Saturdays a month at the moment. Just a handful of the regulars were in attendance but we made some good progress – Toby completed