2016 March - Spring Outdoor Week and other goings on

Outdoors, Indoors and Trains

Spring Outdoor Week 2016

Task list:
• Stacking salvaged sleepers at Wharf
• Started work on re-sleepering the loco road turnout at Wharf
• Gardening at Wharf
• Dismantling part of the high level headshunt beside the ballast dock approach road
• Museum wagon painting
• Painting the dovecote
• Removal of scrap timber from Wharf
• Removal of excess and unsuitable firewood from Pendre
• Bonfire at Ty Mawr bridge
• Hendy Bridge maintenance
• Tree maintenance work milepost 2 ¼ - 2 ¾ and 3 ¾ - 4
• Drainage work in tadpole cutting at Brynglas and the usual trouble spots at Dolgoch, Abergynolwyn and on the extension.
• Replacing 230 sleepers at the bottom end Six Bends
• Ballasting and tamping the above section
• Hedge laying work in the Six Bends area and near milepost 4 ¼
• Gauge maintenance between Brynglas Station and milepost 4

Trains run included 5 ballast trains and others for salvage, logs and boscage. The weather had its moments however it was considerably better than the forecast.

Tasks that still need further work:

• Boscage clearance
• More ballast on the re-sleepered section
• Tadpole cutting drainage
• Loco road turnout at Wharf

Gang numbers (last years figures in brackets)

40 (39) people gave 212 (202.5) days of hard work over the 9 days

A excellent turnout and list of achievements.

Very many thanks again to all who helped out.

Article by Keith Theobald

Photos courtesy of Andy Batham, Chris Bull, Keith Theobald, David Ventry and Karen Willans


Carriage Maintenance

The first working party in the newly re-clad West Shed - much brighter! The Gang worked on the open carriages.

Photos - Karen Willans


Mothering Sunday Train

To tie in with a lovely Kings 'Mothering Sunday' dinner, we ran a special train up to Brynglas for the Mums and their families who came along. It's always nice to see the daffodils coming out at Rhydyronen, even if the sun isn't shining.

Photos - Barbara Fuller