Coach Update and Ballasting The Siding

Preparatory work continues and thanks to CHR Facebook we can take a look at the heritage coaches. The two coaches were restored by the C&W team and are a delight to see.

Here you can see the high standard of restoration of the interior.

Here the coaches are at the station platform in Oswestry receiving a thorough clean and inspection.

Down at Weston with the tracklaying complete it was time to drop ballast on the siding. This was done using reclaimed ballast that has been processed by the screener.

Andy G was on hand as the process was carried out the took the following pictures.

The works train starts dropping ballast pat the point for the siding. 

The doors are regulated to allow the correct quantity of ballast to be dropped either side of the rails.

Slowly but surely the hopper wagon is moved forwards and begins to ballast the siding.

Here we see the train reach the end of the siding.

Here is the empty hopper at the end of the refuge siding.

With the work completed the train sets off back to Oswestry.

Thanks to Andy and CHR for the photos.

Until next time.