2014 November - Autumn Outdoor Week

Progress Report


Resleepering:

• Big Bend on the extension (88 Sleepers)
• Between the down whistle board for Dolgoch and east of Milepost 5 (115 sleepers)
• Drilling another 118 sleepers for the 2015-16 re-sleepering programme in the Six Bends area

Other Work:

• Tree management including trees affected by Ash dieback
• General Drainage
• Loop to Guest House turnout replacement (Progressed)
• Wharf loop to engineers curved siding turnout crossing replacement
• Progress the installation of the track adjacent to Llechfan hedge
• Fabricating and fitting of a set of wooden rails on one of museums slate wagons
• Removal of the build up of leaf litter in many locations along the line
• Bonfire building
• Re-sleeper and install new crossing for yard to loop point
• Install “frame” and infill to provide level surface to yard to loop point
• Complete parallel drain at Nant Gwernol
• Work on installing the FR signal platform

Plus all the other little tasks too numerous to mention.

A New Record Attendance
For the second year running we have broken the record again for the best attended Outdoor Week. 58 (61) people gave 297.5 (294) people days of valuable hard work to the railway, last years figures are in brackets. As always you have responded magnificently to the call to arms, the board and I are very grateful for all of the work that was achieved during the nine days.

So thank you very much again to all those who attended, facilitated, feed or entertained us during the week.

The weather was not as bad as the weather man pretended it would be!

Report by Keith Theobald

Photos by Tony McIlwrick and Keith Theobald