Another good day at the Museum!

Progress at the Rocks by Rail Museum today with the last of the track around the platform area having been lifted ready to be re-laid once some drainage has been installed. The digger for that comes next week after which, hopefully things can be put back in place.

With the wet weather that we have been having at the moment it all looks a little bleak and muddy.

Meanwhile, in the restoration shed, the work on Loco 1931 and its retube continues. Although not really visible, there has been considerable progress with 21 of the 134 tubes having now been removed. It gets easier as you get into the job, so I am told which means that the remaining 113 tubes should be no problem to get out!

The tubes come out through the smoke box with the door open.

Having been hammered through from inside the firebox.

These are some of the tubes that have been removed and they show that the water treatment used in the water that is put into the locos saddle tank has prevented any limescale buildup.

And these are some of the tools that are used to put into the tubes in order to hammer them out. I have no idea how the whole process works but luckily there are those that do!

For me, it was another day f moving backfill for the viewing platform. Luckily, Alex had been in earlier in the week and had added to the backfill so we started with this....

and finished with this....

Next stage will be to add some hardcore type material to the top to provide a solid standing area. We have moved a lot of material as this replenished spoil pile shows. All that work will be worthwhile though and all in all another good day at the Museum!