Trackwork

Volunteers were back down at Percy Main today to carry on with trackwork under the metro bridge

Using the iron men to move the 30ft rails

Placing the first rail in the chairs

Michael W loosely fitting the first fishplate

Fitting the other rail

Tractor dumper the first of the ballast

Katie, Antony and Michael W start hand-packing ballast

Michael D checking the cross level

Michael D and Michael W using the tampers

Antony tamping

More tamping whilst frequently checking the cross-level

After doing enough tamping to get the level right, the train was taken over the section to allow the dogfish ballast wagon to drop ballast in the four-foot and cess. Here, John, Michael W, Antony and Michael D start spreading the ballast

View from Percy Main groundframe points