Track work - 24 November
Good progress had on Saturday with our current challenge - to connect up our mainline with the rail vehicle shed yard at Maymorn.
Good progress had on Saturday with our current challenge - to connect up our mainline with the rail vehicle shed yard at Maymorn.
Lots of interest was shown in the Trust's display at RailEx, held at the Horticultural Hall, Lower Hutt over the weekend of 27-28 October.
After a lot of hard work by our volunteers the Gardner 6LX diesel engine roared back to life on Saturday 6 October 2012.
During September we have connected the double slip at Maymorn to our existing mainline track.
On Saturday morning we placed a further 3.5m3 of concrete into the inspection pit facilities under construction in our rail vehicle shed.
On Saturday 18 August we put a little more work into the doubleslip that we're rebuilding from a kit of parts.
Ballast wagon Yc 817 is undergoing a rapid transformation, with topcoats applied and signwriting under way.
On Saturday 14 July 2012 we placed a further 3.5m^3 of concrete into the inspection pits within the rail vehicle shed at Maymorn.
Over the last couple of weeks we have put a lot of work into a 10-metre length of wall, part of the inspection pit facilities within our rail vehicle shed at Maymorn.