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That's good as to oil up my bullied you need a raised open rail section and the turn table is a good length as well.

Hello again Alan.

I'm sure we look forward to seeing your engine ( and those of other GL5 members) down here in due course.

Regards,
David.

Well why dont you put some possible dates forward to gl5 and we could look to come and fill that shunting yard at some time but keep in mind the dates we already have booked , but it would be nice to come to somewere different perhaps if you spoke to nigel dickenson people could make a weekend of it and visit you both. keep up the good work now were in 2014 hope to see you soon.

Although the yard has already been used by ESSMEE members, there is obviously still some work to be done.

I have no doubt that Nigel will be keeping an eye on these postings, but just in case I'll give him a call in a day or so.

Regards,
David.

Good to see things are progressing, I'd like to be able to come down and visit some time this year, it would be good to try and fill that yard but I suspect it will take a lot of rolling stock!

Regards,

Hello Richard.

When you visit, bring everything you can round up!

Best wishes,
David.

I was hoping a large South West GL5 contingent would come too! I don't think I'd manage to fill even one of those sidings on my own! Still, fun to be had, remarshalling a train in a specific order in the least number of moves etc.

As i said give some possible dates and we will try and arrange ti try and fill that yard with gl5 wagons .

Despite the wet weather over recent months, we have continued to make progress on the marshalling yard. Concreting of the unloading pit, and the turntable pit are complete and the turntable itself is nearly ready for installation, as is the track onto the steaming bay.
A note for anyone in the area on Sunday 6th April - we shall be having a 5" day to coincide with a toy fair which will be taking place at the Bath and West Showground.

David Hale

Sorry David , wont be able to get down to you on the 6th of April as we are at the NRM SHILDON all that weekend running a shunting display , hope we can arrange something for later in the year.

Hello Alan.

We obviously understand, and were not expecting to be over-run with visitors! Hope all goes well at Shildon, and that the event bears fruit for GL5

Regards,
David

More progress at the Bath and West.

6th April 2014
5" day at the Bath and West - An unpleasant day as far as weather was concerned, but enjoyable nevertheless.

Photographs by Roger Davis.

Further to the pictures of the 5" day at the Bath and West Railway, the link below will take you to a short video of part of the event.

http://youtu.be/GbWevLdzsP4

Nice to see the yard finally getting used , I hope to come down to your get together in september and will bring my wagons to run.

I didn't take many photos, I spent a bit of time wandering round and catching up with the members of ESMEE I haven't seen for about 3 years! Anyway, the yard has plenty of capacity!

Hello again Alan.

Look forward to seeing you in September.

Regards,
David.

Hi David , thank you for the invite , everyone seemed to have a good time and i think we showed that a GL5 event is a deffernate possability , perhaps you could get in touch and we could try and fix it up for next year , did anyone take any photos as none have been posted as yet , many thanks to all those from Bath & West for there hospotallity it was most welcome , hope to hear from you soon Alan .

Hi Alan, there are photos of the weekend posted by David on the events forum. Regards Ballan

Bath and West Railway - second shunting yard.

08.45 am Saturday 8th November 2014

Weatherwise, the forecast was bad, and the day started with heavy storms. Despite this the decision was taken to make a concerted effort to prepare the site in readiness for setting out the shuttering for the trackwork.

Roger Cock, a member of ESSMEE who specialises in groundwork brought in his Hitachi mini excavator, and made short work of a job which otherwise would have taken several weeks of manual labour.
With a short coffee break mid morning when there was a major downpour, the job was completed by 14.00pm including the positioning of some hardcore, and the levelling of the excavated soil. More hardcore should be placed next week.
Hopefully, the pictures show the results.
David Hale