The Gwili Railway thread

"Nudge, nudge, wink. wink...."

Ray.

 

After a couple of weekends work the points at Bronwydd are back in having received new timbers.

regards

Matt

 

Yes. A standing joke at the railway is that the line goes down in the 'up' direction and up in the 'down' direction. Used to get some really puzzled looks when I told that to visitors to the signal box.

If anyone's interested - approximate heights above sea level:-
Abergwili 10 metres
Bronwydd 25
Danycoed 50 (Current end of track)
Cynwyl 55
Llanpumsaint 85 (North end of Gwili owned track bed)

 

I can just imagine a pannier with 4 coaches on the slog to llanpumsaint from conwil one day, what a bark through the valley that will be! Its pretty decent out of bronwydd now!!!

Tom

 

There used to be an interesting gradient map in the signal box at Bronwydd - but that disappeared quite a while ago (before I moved away so not guilty Your Honour...) can't seem to find anything other than a very blurred copy on line either...

 

Awesome seeing moorbarrows overhaul progressing, impressive display of in house capabilities.

I remember when moorbarrow arrived she was on loan, is she now owned by the railway or the preservation society?

Tom

 

hi Tom

Moorbarrow is privately owned. Managed to grab a few pictures today so here they are.

Regards

Matt

 

Looking great matt, cheers for all the updates.

Is haulwen next in the queue after moorbarrow or will it be olwen?

Tom

 

Haulwen will be next, boiler work has started and work will commence on the chassis as soon as Moorbarrow is finished.

 

The sun is out and steam is back! First pannier tank at Abergwili Junction since 1964...

meanwhile work continues on reconnecting the points at Abergwili and the springs have been removed from TVR220 to be sent away for repair .
regards

Matt

 

Some more photos of the test runs, photo credits G Davidson and M Whitall.

regards

Matt

 

Picture credit - J Holmes

regards

Matt

 

A vintage carriage update this time-

work on GWR 216 is presently focused on the door ventilators. Note the advert proclaiming where you can acquire basket luncheons! Lots of filling, sanding, woodwork repairs to keep us busy. Also ready to fit to the roof are two pepper pot ventilators (originals).

meanwhile the springs on coach TVR 220 have been removed and sent away for repair.

regards

Matt

 

The P Way team are out again relaying three panels of track near bridge 8.

also work continues on the fences at Bronwydd as our refurbished GWR spear fencing is erected in the car park.

More news on opening shortly.

regards

Matt

 

Which engines are at the railway now. I had seen an old guid book once but I lost it. It had many engines there but you don’t here them spoke about any more

 

Hi CoT fan,

At the moment we have

steam - L92 (season loan) ; Moorbarrow ; (under overhaul) Haulwen ; Olwen ; Taff Vale 28 and Austerity no 3829

diesel - D2178 ; Aberthaw Peckett and Ruston “Abigail”.

regards

Matt

 

I see Matt78 has already answered your question, but . . .
. . . for future reference [shameless_plug] you can always get a list of locos at any heritage site from http://www.heritage-railways.com/locosdb/locos.php [/shameless_plug]. I can't gaurantee it to be 100% accurate, but I'd like to think its pretty close.

 

This is a good answer thank you. I found a old book what happened to trecatty swansea jack and sentinel. Also roysyh 1 but I have discovered now its at the Swansea vale railway

 

This is also a good answer. This website will be good for lots of my research now on

 

Rosyth is now at the Pontypool and Blaenavon railway, the sentinel was at P & B but has just moved to a new home. Trecatty also moved to P & B but I believe it has since been scrapped. I think Swansea Jack moved to the Teifi Valley and has also been scrapped.

Matt