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- Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:29 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 11-06-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 11-06-2023.
:) On a beautiful Summers day it was the small engines weekend with a guest appearance of Lucy the steam tram engine ex. Brussels tramway, restored by Paul of the North York Moors Railway. :D The team today consisted of Jonathan, Colin, Sophie, Stephen, John and myself, after a brew and a breakfast ...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 04-06-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 04-06-2023.
:) Today the team consisted of Clive, Jonathan, John, Dave and myself, we had a brew and a breakfast barm before starting work. It was decided to try to tidy up our workshop and stores, so Clive, Jonathan and John got cracking on sorting out a multitude of electrical items given to us as we were hav...
- Sun May 28, 2023 4:59 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 28-05-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 28-05-2023.
:D today we welcomed Dave a new member of the ELR electrical volunteer team along with Stephen, Jonathan, John, Clive, Colin, Sophie and myself, this was a record number of volunteers on one day. :D We had been informed yesterday that the radial arm drill in the Bury Standard 4 Group workshop would ...
- Sun May 21, 2023 5:51 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 21-05-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 21-05-2023.
:D Today i was joined by Jonathan, Colin and Sophie, we decided to catch the train up to Heywood Station to replace some LED lights on the platform lamp posts. :idea: We collected our mobile tower scaffold and caught the next train up to Heywood Station, on arrival we erected the mobile tower scaffo...
- Sun May 07, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 07-05-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 07-05-2023.
:D Just three of us in today, Jonathan, Clive and myself, after a swift brew, Clive sorted out a problem on an emergency light fitting from the overbridge on Bury Bolton Street Station. We obtained some step ladders and erected the light fitting, then tested it to ensure the emergency LED lights wor...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:10 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 30-04-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 30-04-2023.
:D The team today on the Thomas the Tank Engine weekend, was Clive, Jonathan, Sophie, Colin and myself, after a swift brew and a chocolate bun we got stuck into repairing the electrical power tools which had been given to us last week. Clive had brought in some new batteries to fit in the remaining ...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 23-04-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 23-04-2023.
:D The team today consisted of myself, Jonathan and Stephen, after a brew and a barm we decided to travel to Heywood Station to replace some faulty equipment. We recovered our mobile tower scaffold and sourced some replacement components, we then caught the train pulled by Ernest the diesel locomoti...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 5:15 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 16-04-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 16-04-2023.
Today i was joined by Clive, Jonathan, John and Stephen, after a bacon barm each it was decided to carry on with the repair of the emergency lights on the overbridge at Bury Bolton Street Station. :D Clive had purchased some new miniature relays with heavy duty contacts to replace the ones we had fi...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:13 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 02-04-2023.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 02-04-2023.
:D Today i was joined by Sophia, Colin, Jonathan, and Clive and what a beutiful day it was, blue skies and warm sunshine. First job after a brew was to test the fire alarm call points at Bury Bolton Street Station, all was well and the results logged. :) Next task was to obtain ladders so we could t...
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 12-03-2023
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 12-03-2023
It seems a long time but we are now back volunteering on the ELR, today i was joined by Jonathan, John, Stephen, Sophie and Colin, after a brew and a breakfast barm we set off on the DMU service to Heywood Station to recover the two sets of Christmas lights. :idea: The lights were all packed into th...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:52 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 29-01-2023
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 29-01-2023
:D We are back, will at least myself and Jonathan were back for the first time in 2023 at the request of the Bury Standard 4 Group. It had been reported to me that a number of electrical tools required some attention. :shock: Len Allen one of our electrical volunteers had dropped off at my house a h...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:38 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 18-12-2022.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 18-12-2022.
:D Today on another cold and damp day i was joined by Jonathan and Clive, after a brew and a chocolate cup cake we set about the first tasks of the day. Jonathan replaced a switch on a bench grinder which we had been given to repair, the switch was wired up, then PAT tested. 8) Two electric drill, o...
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 4:24 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 11-12-2022.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 11-12-2022.
:( Just me in today, it was a nice sunny day albeit a bit chilly, the Santa Specials were very busy, a quick brew was had along with a mince pie. A water boiler was brought to the workshop to see if it could be repaired, i stripped it down and could see that water was leaking into the electrics at t...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 04-12-2022.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 04-12-2022.
8) Today on a very damp day i was joined by Clive and Jonathan, we had a welcome brew before starting work. Clive wired up three lighting ends for use on converting fluorescent tubes to LED tubes, these where to be used in the Bury Standard 4 Group workshop at the end of platform two at Bury Bolton ...
- Sun Nov 27, 2022 6:09 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 27-11-2022.
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The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 27-11-2022.
:) Just three of us in today, John, Jonathan and myself, we started off with a brew and a breakfast barm cake, the station was buzzing with people enjoying the start of the Santa Specials. The weather forecast for the day was that it would stay dry, to everyone's relief. It was brought to our attent...