What a glorious feeling! And so it was on Sunday when ESME members, family & friends braved serious flooding on the roads to enjoy 2019’s open day and see the progress a year has made. Enjoy it they did! The smiling faces, the queues for the trains, the consumption of the burgers and the positive Read more about Just Steaming In The Rain……[…]
With all the visibly rapid progression of the building it is easy to overlook the progress towards completing the bridges. None the less there has been progress there too…… The whole of the viaduct was pressure washed to remove organic material and loose paint. The next stage is wire brushing, further primer to any bare Read more about Keeping Track Of Progress….[…]
They say that 24 hours is a long time in politics. When it comes to progressing our building it seems that six days is such a short time. On Saturday our Roving reporter submitted these pictures to the News Desk….. Construction of the interior walls was well advanced, but still a Read more about Clad All Over…..[…]
Working on a project of the size of the Museum & Heritage Centre it can be difficult to appreciate the progress being made when the work undertaken is not immediately obvious to the casual observer. A case in point has been the installation of the ‘Dwangs’ & the electrics. For several weeks the interior of Read more about Steady Progress….[…]
The picture speaks for itself……
Our Roving Reporter has been a regular visitor on a Thursday these past few weeks and has been keeping the News Desk up to date. Due to commitments with attending pre school nursery this weeks report is likely to be the last one for a while. The focus here is on the completion of ‘Blythe Read more about Progress Report[…]
Our portable track was out in the sunshine at Progress Rail open day at their South Queensferry site. For those of you that don’t know, (and until I visited I didn’t either!) Progress Rail are a large foundry business that produce all the manganese steel castings for Network Rail & export similar to America for Read more about Progress Rail Open Day[…]
A first for ESME was to be asked to provide the portable track for a wedding reception. With a the sun shining and ‘Morning Star’ polished to perfection, Robert, Russell and Phil put on a faultless event. The happy couple, Marie and Graeme Moyes are seated behind the locomotive ready for the off. In this Read more about Wedding Belle Express[…]
Weather forecasts, who believes them? The night before Met Office forecast predicted a wonderful sunny day. At 10:00 it was wonderfully warm & sunny, so much so that Robert was setting up a Parasol for shade! Our visitors arrived 30 minutes early, but we were ready, both ‘Grace’ & the tea urn were up to Read more about Bathgate Probus Club Visit[…]
This story is an example of the old adage ‘every cloud has a silver lining’, albeit a rather expensive one! My old Boxford model ‘A’ lathe was obtained second hand from a school and whilst at the school someone had tried to put it into back gear whilst still running. This resulted in the loss Read more about Modernising Old Lathes[…]
