Home - Location - Timetable - Facilities - FAQs - Events - Stately Trains News - Photogalleries - Digital Archive - History - Shops - Departments Stocklist - Shed - Signalling - Membership - Volunteering - Links Exciting Visitors 12/07/08 It has just been confirmed that LNER D49/1, Morayshire will be visiting the Railway for our Steam Gala in September 2008. Due to arrive shortly is 33 109 which is visiting for the Diesel Gala, which sees a revised timetable published. Also due to arrive shortly is Darfield No.1 which was formerly based on the Railway. This loco will be staying for a year. Illingworth's frames, boiler, tank and cab have arrived for reassembly and finishing work to take place. Primrose's chassis will be returning to the Railway very soon following the completion of contract work. The rest of the work will then be carried out on site with a return to steam being pencilled in for within 2 years time. Work on Annie (boiler almost complete) and Beatrice (painting and finishing components) continues. P-Way continue to tackle some reballasting work at Bow Bridge. S&T work on the new bracket signal, Bolton Abbey groundframe, Guiseley repaint (weather permitting) East Yard and Sleights Sidings East all continue to make good progress, with concrete foundations poured this week for SSE. Catching up 07/06/08 Following a very good Ivor event, the Spring Bank Holiday 'Day out with Thomas' was also a success. The Stately Trains 6-wheelers are now back in service for the Summer providing First Class travel. The LNWR Directors' Saloon will, all being well, enter traffic in time for the Gala weekend... The week before: wanting to break out of the top yard! First time at Bolton Abbey Top of the bill must be the test run of the Class 14, No.38, formerly BR D.9513, which took place on Saturday 31st May 2008. The loco finally escaped from the top yard, shunted some empty stock and finished up the day with a return trip over the line thus making its first appearance at Bolton Abbey. The test run threw up some other problems to be resolved, but progress has made and its 'proper' debut at the Diesel gala seems to be on course nicely. 10.6Mb Quicktime movie No.36 continues to be worked on, with painting now taking place. Painting is also being carried out on 08 054, which I really will get round to producing a page for in the near future! On the steam loco front Darfield will not be coming until July, 140 continues to run well but Monckton has been stopped requiring attention to at least a couple of springs. Beatrice continues to come together steadily with painting work being the order of the day following the rivetting and welding work carried out on the smokebox with the boiler out of the frames once more. Illingworth has appeared on site in a very much dismantled state, but reassembly will take place over the coming weeks and months. Annie is also seeing work carried out... Off site for the moment is Primrose but work has speeded up on this project as well, with a 'completion' date for the current contract work on the chassis scheduled for the end of June... As if that weren't enough, a tender engine is being lined up for the Gala at the moment and will be announced shortly. Safe to say it should generate a lot of interest! DETAILS SHORTLY! P-Way have been working away at Bow Bridge and also tackling dipped joints near Stoneacre. Rob had been lining up more items to acquire for S&T, only to find that the groundframe from Stanlow had been stolen before we could get it. This is a shame in particular because we could have kept it 'together' with the signalbox frame from Stanlow and Thornton which we DO have! Two windows have been put back into Guiseley signalbox following the repairs, leaving only one outstanding which is having significant work carried out. Painting of the exterior of Guiseley has been started with the staircase, and work continues with Sleights Sidings East whose foundations should finally be seeing some concrete in the coming weeks! The interior is now looking much smarter and the windows will see further attention, to strip and paint, shortly. The bracket signal has not been forgotten either as it has now dried out sufficiently for painting to commence. Bolton Abbey's new groundframe is also coming together well with the main structure installed, aligned and levelled. The levers have been fitted and the locking re-installed. Connecting up will wait for the moment whilst the new rodding runs are put into place, but the benches will be installed in readiness. The new toilet block at Embsay has been coming along in leaps and bounds with the interior walls complete and work well underway on the exterior walls. The interior fittings and finishing will be able to be tackled shortly as the materials are all in stock. The result should be a much improved facility for visitors and members alike! The grand tidying up has begun with materials 'stored' at Bolton Abbey being removed from their very prominent positions. This huge job will continue over the coming weeks and will also see improvements at Embsay which will now be possible folowing the progress made with the shed project. Assistance is needed with this! As a follow-on from the tidy up at Bolton Abbey, the remains of the second platform wall are being dismantled in readiness for the rebuilding of the platform. This may seem a little odd, but the old platform clearances are not deemed sufficient, so the wall needs to be moved back. These will be excavated in readiness for footings to be laid and the walls will be built up over time and filled in with ash and other spoil removed from elsewhere along the line. Older news articles can now be found on the Archived News pages. Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust Registered Charity No. 517804 - Registered Museum No. 60 Bolton Abbey Station, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 6AF General Enquiries: 01756 710614 - Talking Timetables & Fax: 01756 795189 enquiries@embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk webmaster@embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk