Drilling timber for the replica slate wagon

Ironwork for the replica wagon stored in the Nantlle wagon

Wheelsets wait on the platform

The Nantlle wagon (formerly on the plinth at Wharf station) is itself at Pendre for refurbishment.

The Nantlle wagon

Across in the paint shop, 5th/6th February was a bodging weekend. A lot of Saturday was spent installing a new gate at the entrance to Rhydyronen station. The new gate had been made from oak (appropriately it was made in Oakengates!) in a similar but stronger design replace to the old life expired one. In the meantime a piece of wood was shaped to replace part of a window frame in coach no.23 which came away when the glass was removed – it should have been part of the cant rail section but presumably the router slipped! The rest of the weekend was spent filling and sanding, then filling again – it seems to be never ending, the more you look the more you find.

Carriage 23 in the paint shop

On the ash siding was the new underframe for the new ballast hopper that is under construction to replace the last of the Winchburgh wagons, No. 22. Shallower main frames allow rubber block springing in this de luxe hopper, which will also feature another novelty, a handbrake.

Wagon chassis

Down at the west end of the yard, another recent arrival is this rather fine cast Limit of Shunt board to denote the start of the block section to Wharf; it is designed to be removable so it can avoid the flail mower.

Limit of Shunt board

Source: Talyllyn Railway: Latest News

Posted by mark mullarkey on 8 February 2005