2017 October - Long Weekend Outdoor Update

Friday Tasks




• Ty Mawr ------ Picked up the Quarry Siding West turnout bearers and remaining long uncut bearers.

• Unloaded the plastic buckets into the orange hut at Cynfal

• Unload the turnout bearers at Quarry Siding

• East of Quarry Siding loop - located a site, built a crib and unloaded the other long bearers with batons between them.

• Crowed one of the Quarry Siding stock rails

• Loaded the crossing for the new turnout and the crow frame + nose And took to Pendre.

• Investigated the watercourses in the milepost 5 ¾ area.

• Tidied the Quarry Siding shed entrance area

• Concentrated the track fixings in Quarry Shed

• Laid out the sleepers at resleepering site by 4 ½ milepost

• Found spanners for taking the turnout crossing apart at Quarry siding

• Brought down enough of the ex Network sleepers for the sidings

• Swapped one of the switch blades with a better from at Ty Mawr

• Brought down two ex Trecwn softwood sleepers for replacing two defective steps at Cynfal

• Sorted out the mud in the entrance to Rhydyronen

• Moved the cement mixer from Wharf to store at Pendre

Saturday – Monday Tasks




• At Brynglas prepared some displaced rails for loading

• At Brynglas investigated a drainage issue just west of the loop

• At Brynglas loaded a surplus sleeper to go into stock at Quarry Siding

• Placed the telecoms wire behind the fixings West of Brynglas loop

• Returned all the skates to Pendre for attention

• Offloaded and appropriately distributed the scrap, rubbish and sleepers at Wharf

• Returned the tools, firewood, fishplate nuts and bolts to store at Pendre

• Ty Mawr Loaded the other two sets of turnout bearers and took them to Wharf

• Raked up a lot of the cut grass in the memorial garden

• Strimmed the drive at Abergynolwyn

• Strimmed the playground at Abergynolwyn

• Leaf blowing the drive and entrance at Abergynolwyn

• Leaf blowing the track in the platform area at Abergynolwyn

• Removed another five 1 ton bags of stones from Cynfal stream (That’s twelve this year!). We also put another ton of stone on the boflat for use at Wharf

• Returned the empty dredging buckets to Quarry Siding

• Fuelled the Bobcat

• Obtained the required measurements on the creep bridge at Brynglas

• Loaded the ex trecwn turnout sleepers from the rail stacks

• Offloaded the sleepers at Wharf after moving the long softwoods

• Rodded the drain at the west end of the loop

• Measured and paired the curved BS50 rails for the Wharf south side sidings

• Fitted two of the museum wagon protector tops

• Removed the concrete from around the base of a Limit of Shunt post

Update and photos by Keith Theobald