News 2026

January to March

Thomas gets 'Lit-up'
Thomas started the New Year with a working lamp fitted on his buffer-beam. It is likely we'll similarly equip both James and Percy during this year.

The wet weather for the first two months of the year has somewhat put off work on a large scale and the sheltered work area (see 2025's newspage) has been put to good use in preparing various items.

Work has concentrated on designing and building a: New Ground Frame to work the Great Northern (Ireland) signal erected last year. At the start of March installation got under way as the weather gave us some dry days.

      
General view on the left - the work going on at the post foot is to install the chain pulley (centre). The signal was also recently given an electrically-powered lamp; part of the conduit run bringing the power is visible on the right of the photo.

The ground frame seen in close-up (right) has two levers - one for the GN(I) signal, the other will be used eventually for our upper-quadrant distant signal to be resited later this year to make room for the next restored signal.

Spring Flowers

A tribute to our volunteer gardeners - more pictures to follow.