Well, it's two days until we start another month (minimum) of lockdown. The railway will be closed, and we should have been starting our Norfolk Lights Express service on November 17th; that is not going to happen, but the service will be extended into January so perhaps the income stream will not be hit too badly.
Have just finished 'normal' Autumn services, we have to get the set ready for the NLE trains, which means fitting the set with lights. The loco will be fitted at Weybourne, and the generators will be put into the CCT using the loader down at Weybourne shed as well.
Soo today, we assembled a group of volunteers in the rain to turn the five suburbans into a Norfolk Lights Train
We are going to install nets over the carriage roofs, to which light ropes have been tied - these will be operated from a controller in the brake coach.
Signalman James waiting for the next net to be sent over from the landward side:
Unrolling nets along the coaches:
The nets were tied down to the carriage running boards using cargo straps:
The display includes several woodland scenes, power from generators and controlled from the train. a short goods train is loaded up with equipment and waits for the Class 20 to haul it up the line:
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