WORK IN PROGRESS PHOTOS 13/06/2024-28/08/2025

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Work in progress 13/06/2024-28/08/2025. (Click on image to enlarge and view titles)

28/8/25 The installation of the suspended ceiling in the club house proceeding.

28/8/25 The loco off loading ramp next to the club house being raised to make off loading easier.

24/8/25 A very good turn out for the public running day.

24/8/25 Loco’s being prepared for the public running.

24/8/25 Loco’s being prepared for the public running.

21/8/25 Preparations under way for the upcoming public running day.

21/8/25 The completed concreting of the inspection chamber next to the main entrance gates.

14/08/2025 New carriages being constructed

14/08/2025 Work on the new carriage bogies continues

14/08/2025 The ground level track platform extension

14/08/2025 Installation of ducting and draw pit for the car park lighting.

14/08/2025 The suspended ceiling in the centre of the meeting room completed.

10/08/2025 The installation completed of the side supports for the suspended ceiling.

10/08/2025 The installation of the side supports for the suspended ceiling in progress.

07/08/2025 Supporting cross beams for the suspended ceiling grid installed in the centre section of the meeting room.

07/08/2025 The shuttering in place for the next phase of the ground level platform.

07/08/2025 Some additional picnic tables gifted to the club, formally residing on the beach at Teignmouth.

05/08/2025 The annual club BBQ.

31/07/2025 The new carriage bogies under construction.

31/07/2025 The raised track platform viewed from the opposite end with the ramp already in place.

31/07/2025 The fencing being installed around the edge of the ground level track.

31/07/2025 The ramp being laid at one end of the raised track platform.

31/07/2025 Work has started on the suspended ceiling for the meeting room, with the first brackets being attached to the roof.

31/07/2025 The new doors for the raised track carriage shed painted and secured.

10/07/2025 The new club loco ‘Ivy May’ successfully undergoing a boiler pressure test to confirm that is all ok.

10/07/2025 The first half of the raised track platform completed, and the shuttering positioned to cast the next section when the weather cools down a bit.

03/07/2025 Attempting to ‘un-seize’ the dumper truck engine, only to find that the starter motor had jammed and all was well.

03/07/2025 The first section of the raised track platform being cast.

26/06/2025 The portable track laid in the West Buckland village hall sports field ready for the village fete this Saturday.

26/06/2025 The shuttering put in place to make the first part of the platform for the raised level track.

26/06/2025 The raised level track with the new end door in place.

05/06/2025 Mass construction of picket fencing in progress.

05/06/2025 Both containers now moved to the end of the site

05/06/2025 The turntable turnout concreting almost complete

05/06/2025 Concreting of the turntable turnout.

05/06/2025 Modifications to the point levers

05/06/2025 The site on a warm summers day.

05/06/2025 The site on a warm summers day.

15/05/2025 The embankment alongside School Lane repaired, kerbs replaced and re-ballasted.

15/05/2025 The new door from the meeting room into the workshop installed.

15/05/2025 The new tarmac between the traverser rails.

15/05/2025 The end of the new moveable track into the raised track carriage shed

13/05/2025 Members running evening.

24/04/2025 The air compressor being connected up.

24/04/2025 The end of the car park cleared to make additional car parking spaces, with the pads for the containers all ready for the big move.

24/04/2025 The pneumatics to the traverser being installed.

24/04/2025 The pneumatics to the traverser being installed.

17/04/2025 The final pad for the containers cast and protected from the rain. The area between the remaining pads and centre section being levelled up.

10/04/2025 The air compressor has been fitted in position, now waiting on the sparkies to connect it up.

10/04/2025 The cladding in the signal box is nearing completion.

10/04/2025 The new centre concrete pad has been completed, and now 4 further smaller pads on either side are to be concreted to take the two containers.

10/04/2025 The new centre concrete pad has been completed, and now 4 further smaller pads on either side are to be concreted to take the two containers.

27/03/2025 The slabs for the picnic tables all completed.

27/03/2025 The area around the level crossing now devoid of sand/cement and looking much tidier.

27/03/2025 The second window now installed in the meeting room.

27/03/2025 The compressor house structure now complete along with a door.

27/03/2025 The cladding on the raised track carriage shed almost complete.

27/03/2025 A new concrete slab made to park the dumper truck on (or a dedicated parking space for the Chairman?). The containers will be relocated either side of the slab.

27/03/2025 The cement production facility has now been transferred to the far end of the car park.

20/03/2025 Following a delivery of 20 Tonnes of stone, the western end of the car park has been extended to accommodate the containers and additional car parking spaces.

20/03/2025 The last of the concrete pads cast for the picnic tables.

20/03/2025 The first of the windows installed in the meeting room.

20/03/2025 The first of the windows installed in the meeting room.

13/03/2025 the roof cladding being installed on the ground level carriage shed.

13/03/2025 the interior cladding of the signal box.

13/03/2025 the last of the hard standings for the picnic tables being prepared.

13/03/2025 the sector plate leading to the ground level carriage shed.

13/03/2025 the ticket office signage in place.

06/003/2025 A third concrete pad being constructed for a picnic table.

06/03/2025 The floor is complete in the meeting room, with the skirting boards and architraves being installed.

06/03/2025 Two concrete pads completed on which to sit the picnic tables.

13/02/2025 the floor being laid in the meeting room.

13/02/2025 hard standings being constructed for the picnic tables.

13/02/2025 new operating levers being fitted to the points.

30/01/2025 new steps being constructed down to the steaming bays.

30/01/2025 new steps being constructed down to the steaming bays.

30/01/2025 the meeting room plastering completed.

18/01/2025 Loading bays

18/01/2025 Signal box internal cladding

18/01/2025 plasterboarding

19/12/2024 High level plasterboard being installed.

12/12/2024 The last of the stud walling erected in the meeting room.

12/12/2024 The last of the stud walling erected in the meeting room.

28/11/2024 The south wall of the meeting room with the joints filled on the plasterboard awaiting rubbing down.

28/11/2024 The stud walling being erected on the north wall of the meeting room.

28/11/2024 The north wall of the meeting with completed plasterboard.

14/11/2024 The cladding of the compressor house continues.

14/11/2024 The last of the kerbing being positioned at the end of the traverser.

14/11/2024 The insulation and plasterboard installed on the meeting room wall.

07/11/2024 The compressor house taking shape.

07/11/2024 The compressor house taking shape.

07/11/2024 The framework for the meeting room wall erected.

07/11/2024 The framework for the meeting room wall erected.

03/10/2024 The ground around the edge of the steaming bays raised and levelled prior to the installation of the changeover mechanism to the carriage shed.

03/10/2024 A new hardstanding cast at the end of the raised track carriage shed to take the changeover mechanism from the traverser.

03/10/2024 The first of the operating levers mounted in the signal box, and the first trial operation of the crossing gates carried successfully out using the pneumatics.

19/09/2024 The ground level around part of the raised track being raised using spare topsoil.

19/09/2024 Another draw pit completed adjacent to the carriage shed.

12/09/2024 Brean Steamers Visit

12/09/2024 Brean Steamers Visit

12/09/2024 Brean Steamers Visit

04/07/2024 The plasterboard being fitted to the partition wall.

Further progress on the signal box 21/06/24

All of the noggins cut and fitted and the first plasterboard panels being fitted. 21/06/24

All of the noggins cut and fitted and the first plasterboard panels being fitted. 21/06/24

All of the track into the carriage shed now in place. 21/06/24

The workshop floor extension in place with the start being made on the partition wall.

The new ticket office in place. 21/06/24

The steaming bays for the raised track being welded up 21/06/24

The new club portable track being painted 21/06/24

The side cladding sheets being placed on the ground level carriage shed.

The signal box build continues. 13/06/2024

The partition wall erected between the meeting room and workshop. 13/06/2024

The new(?) dumper truck being renovate 13/06/2024

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