Echills Wood Railway Junior Team

PREVIOUS REPORTS

on this page you can view the three previous reports from the website.

SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER

A change from the locomotive as we have been assigned the challenge of designing and creating the weather vein for the clock tower above the steaming bays.

A view from the line of the clock tower

The top of the vein planned out

A close up of the tail fin which was made by Adrian

A start was made on the four brackets which will hold our N,S,E and W

Tweaking the first bracket using the gas torch in order to make them more accurate

SUNDAY 23rd NOVEMBER

Part 2 of the weather vane, which will be positioned on top of the steaming bays.(Apologies for the quality of photographs on this report as I have had to make do without a photo editor)

First job of the day was to help the track gang and fill up all of the balast wagons.

The welded arrow with its rather fancy EWR logo counter weight.

Oliver cutting one of the spirals for each of the directional plates.

Me, having just bent my spiral without mucking it up.

 

William putting the bend in his spiral support.

A nice action shot of Adrian gas welding the supports to the spirals.

My chance at gas welding the letters in place on the spirals.

This is me bending on of the circles that will provide decoration and some support to the triangle.

An after shot of one of the circles being welded into place.

At last the finished product. A team shot with the weather vane.

Sunday 14th December

Weather Vane part 3. This was a morning for adding the final touches to the weather vane (with a bit of help from Jeff Stevens)which was soon to be positioned on top of the steaming bays.

All the Junior members had a go at painting a part of the weather vane.

Once dry the weather vane was fixed into place above the clock that Adrian made.

The weather vane finally fixed in and complete.

"When Santa got stuck up the chimney he began to shout."

Only joking, it was Jeff who was helping Adrian fix the weather vane, we had to let him down eventually.

Back to the Junior Loco

A close up of the loco with no body at all.

Adrian having one of the first test drives of the locomotive under its own power.

As the loco at present is really rather slow, in order to make it quicker, we need to work out the gearing, it was Oliver's job to count the teeth on the sprockets.

 

This is the proposed control panel for the locomotive. This will be explained better in the next report.

Sunday 19th April

Very big appologies for the lack of reports over the past few months. This is because my camera has been playing up and numerous events have stopped us in our tracks. However, here is the latest report showing the progress of the bodywork.

A nice shot of the locomotive at the start of the day with my litlle project in the foreground.

The front window roughly marked out.

First markings for the back window.

Oliver,Christopher and myself making the front markings accurate.

Adrian helping Christopher cut out the first window with his nibbler.

Window number 1 cut out ready to smoothed with an angle grinder.

My turn at drilling the holes for the second window.

Both windows now fully cut out ready for the next stage.