..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..
An August Enterprise
Another sadly brief update, but on the plus side, a ‘live’ one- I’m currently sitting outside the cafe at Steamworks on a reasonably busy Sunday opening day. Yes, you heard aright- a Sunday opening day. After the success of our
Did July-ke that?
If you’ve got any taste at all, probably not. What our regular followers might like rather more, however, is this; Yes, the rumours you’ve heard are true. Although they might equally be false, as I’ve got no idea what rumours
June is bustin’ out all over..
..Although on balance, we’d rather she didn’t. The old jokes are so rarely the best.. It’s been quite busy down at Steamworks over the last few weeks, perhaps encouraged by the far more clement weather we’d been having, although that
Making Tracks
Good grief, it’s May. I’ve become convinced that someone somewhere, for nefarious reasons best known to themselves, is stealing weeks’ worth of time from us, although general opinion seems to disagree with me. It’s been quite a busy time for
Never trust domeless engines..
Well, we were thick with snow last time I updated this blog, and now it’s looking quite a bit like spring- I don’t know where the time goes. Of course, there’s not been much going on down at Blyth Road,
If you catch my drift..
I doubt anyone could have failed to notice that it snowed last week. And proper snow too, not just the flimsy stuff that melts after a day or so, but a good thick carpet that hangs around for ages. Steamworks,
Model behaviour
It’s February already, and as far as Steamworks is concerned, there’s not a great deal going on, apart from quite a lot of cold, wet weather, which is at least doing a lot of good as far as the pond
Another new year begins..
Well, it’s 2021 and the start of another year, although it would be a bit of a challenge to tell the difference between this year and the previous one. Nonetheless, allow me to wish the readers of the blog a
Stanchions and bufferbeams
Well, the volunteers have returned to a fairly damp and occasionally frosty Steamworks- 4mm of ice on the ponds earlier this week- and work has resumed on track laying, guttering and tree planting, of which more anon. Our own progress