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  1. lynbarn liked Breva's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    This is the view in the opposite direction, the chair should be there somewhere. [ATTACH] We are currently on target for this working week, but with the help of a NR gang on a community service to thingy, which really gave us a boost! Thanks,...

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  2. lynbarn liked Breva's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Today was a long day track laying - nine hours. I was pooped, and am currently recovering in my hotel room with a bottle of Malbec... We laid five track panels today, one more than the average of four required to to meet our target of joining up...

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  3. lynbarn liked Flying Phil's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Many thanks for these regular updates and pictures.

    Sep 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM

  4. lynbarn replied to the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    So we can agree that the K&ESR needs larger locos for today's services, and both the USA and J94 tanks give the track gang too much grief, so in an ideal world, would something like a schools or an L1 class be more suitable? Or even a BR standard...

    Sep 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM

  5. lynbarn liked Fireline's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    I am hoping 9129 will stay in use beyond the extension. It's ideal for things like getting forestry teams to work sites, where presently we have to use a DMU.

    Sep 15, 2026 at 10:36 AM

  6. lynbarn liked Ploughman's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    The type in use as personnel carriers on the Trans Pennine Upgrade 4 tracking are by Thwaites and are converted Road rail 5 Tonne Dumpers They have been in use since the mid 90's often on worksites that are a distance from an access or are in a...

    Sep 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM

  7. lynbarn liked Breva's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    We are currently working on the reverse curve, roughly between Junction road and Salehurst. We laid 80m today, and aim to complete 400m by the end of the week, to join up with an earlier bit laid by the future passing loop, near Austens Rother...

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  8. lynbarn liked Breva's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    We walked quite a bit today, not enough track to run on. I heard we have laid 27% of the track so far, and the target for the end of this working week is to join up with another bit, and make it 39%. One of us ascertained that he took 14.000...

    Sep 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM

  9. lynbarn liked Miff's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Some time ago Baguley Drewry railcar 9129 was purchased for use on the extension. It’s a lightweight vehicle considered capable of transporting up to 14 people to a worksite over newly laid track. Here’s a blog entry from last year....

    Sep 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM

  10. lynbarn liked Nick C's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    From what I've seen of other projects, like the Bluebell's regular replacements, the track laying itself is pretty quick - the time consuming bit is preparing the bed for it to go on, getting it all smooth and at the correct attitude, working out...

    Sep 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM

  11. lynbarn replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Hi Mark, I get that, but comparing it to other railway projects, the reconstruction appears to be lightning fast and, to be honest, most welcome. I do hope to be about in the next couple of years to go for a ride from Robertsbridge Junction all...

    Sep 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM

  12. lynbarn liked Mark Thompson's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    The pace is really set by civil engineering (bridges/ drainage/ embankments to be rebuilt, coupled with accessibility. Thats why its being done in a particular order, rather than sequentially.

    Sep 13, 2026 at 7:47 PM

  13. lynbarn replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Thanks, Mike, for that. For some reason, I had it in my mind that the rapid amount of progress was due to track laying happening every week; glad to be corrected.

    Sep 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM

  14. lynbarn liked mikehartuk's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Patience! Track laying is generally one week per month, not every week. You ask when our wonderful K&ESR volunteer P Way team will run out of trackbed - the construction programme anticipates we run out of trackbed on which to lay any more track...

    Sep 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM

  15. lynbarn liked Streetert's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    They're busyy making another 360m https://rvrailway.blogspot.com/2026/09/section-5b-track-laying-1.html [ATTACH]

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