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Jonathan came in yesterday Saturday to do some work on our spare Station Lamp heads, it makes life a lot easier when we want to replace any damaged lamp heads on our Stations to have plenty spare units. On Sunday John was back from his holiday in Majorca, Len, Jonathan and myself showed up, the firs...

Len, Jonathan and myself showed up today, Clive was attending a radio meeting whilst John was still on holiday. Jonathan and Len did the weekly checks on the fire alarm systems in the booking office and the Trackside pub/cafe, while I started to get all the tools and equipment we needed for the jobs...

XT Mike, We would need to gain access to the P/W mess room, as we only work on Sundays, If you could arrange access we will check it out. Hi RMB, we have previously removed all the plugs from the to be restored carriages to enable us to refurbish them, so when the carriage is ready to receive the pl...

Today Jonathan, Len Clive and myself met in our workshop, I checked out the railway clock which I had put on test last Sunday, It is keeping good time so we passed it off as a good working clock. We await somewhere suitable to install it. A check was then done on the fire alarm system in BBS concour...

After being on holiday for the past two weeks it was back to the ELR on Sunday, the war weekend. Sunday was a far better day weather wise and all the trains seemed well "occupied" occupied being the operative word! I reassembled a Smiths electrical station clock which someone had given us ...

An early start for us on Sunday with reported lighting faults in the shop at BBS and also in the front information office, Len and myself checked which lights parts needed replacing, we found one five foot, one four foot and a compact fluorescent tube required replacing. John and Clive then arrived,...

I was rallying in Anglesey on Sunday so this report is from information given to me by Len Allen. Len, Clive Jonathan and John met up on Sunday, first job was to test all the fire alarm call points in The Trackside and the Station surrounds, individual fire alarm call points are tested each week and...

Jonathan came in on Saturday to finish off some painting on the lamp heads for Summerseat Station and to finish off painting the surrounds of two Station clocks we are refurbishing. On Sunday a full compliment of volunteers turned up, John, Jonathan, Clive, Len and me, i was going to leave after lun...

We all took a holiday last weekend except for Jonathan who came into the workshop on Saturday and Sunday to paint the body of a station clock we were given some time ago it is a simple Smiths electrical clock in an octagonal case. Jonathan also got to grips with five ex Summerseat lamp heads ready f...

I visited the Bury Transport Museum on Saturday the day after the official opening, what a difference no scaffolding holding up the roof and everything clean and tidy apart from the yard outside which still has to be finished, it will be a big asset when everything is complete. The display's are ver...

I was competing on a special stage rally in Weston Park near Telford so it was left to Clive, John, Jonathan and Len to carry on with work repairing and replacing some of the faulty flurescent light fittings at The Baron Street Works. We had started this job a couple of weeks ago on the Ian Riley si...

Thanks Clive for doing the Electrical Report, It was Mother's day so i took my Mum out for some lunch and then in the afternoon we went to Southport, plenty people in Southport and some decent weather. A nice day for lamp changing at Summerseat, hope it was warmish. Len was back after a couple of we...

What was the result/verdict of Hughies electric clock? is it now working? The clock originally was probably one of a few clocks which would have had a central clocking system, i.e. two pulses a minute which stepped on the stepping mechanism in the clock. This pulse system will have to be replicated...

Alan There are a couple of qualified electricians who attend mid week PWay work and could possibly put up the light fittings if you want to discuss this with Bob Johnson who plans/organises the work. Thanks for that information Mike i will contact Malcolm Vickers to ask him to liase with Bob Johnso...

Saturday saw Jonathan come in to finish off painting four station lights for Summerseat, they will be fitted in the next few weeks. Today Sunday, Jonathan, John, Clive and myself met in our workshop to decide what to do today. The workshop phone rang and Malcolm Vickers asked us to go down to Baron ...