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The Pway team report on their work this Wednesday: “We laid out panel number five today, ready for drilling and fixing etc. This makes 100 metres in total, or, just to get it in perspective, one quarter of the total of this phase of the project, fr ...

The Pway team made great progress with tracklaying this week. The fourth panel was prepared and laid out on Wednesday and yesterday it was completed, fixing down the chairs and setting the keys. ...

We are very sad to report the death of John Davis. He was a long standing supporter of the NDR at Shillingstone and would always be one of the very first to arrive in the morning from Child Okeford on his mobility scooter to enjoy his morning coffee ...

A very misty morning at Shillingstone Station bringing promise of a sunny day to come, and a successful day shunting with Ashdown. ...

Yesterday, the Pway team made the most of a sunny October day fitting the rails to the second panel of track on the rebuilt embankment at Bere Marsh. ...

Undaunted by the wet weather, the P-way team fixed rails to the first panel of track today. This is the first time there has been any track here since 1967! ...

A great moment yesterday: the sleepers for the first panel of track were positioned on the newly reconstructed embankment trackbed. Track laying will proceed from the cattle creep bridge back towards the station. Great work, team! ...

The Pway team took full advantage of the unexpectedly dry, sunny weather and managed to lay the Terram membrane and ballast the remaining section of the embankment North of Lamb House bridge on Saturday. This means that we can start track laying oper ...

On Saturday the P-way team took full advantage of the fact that the threatened rain did not appear and it was a beautiful dry, sunny day. They took delivery of 160 tonnes of ballast. 12 packs of 24 sleepers were moved into position on the embankment ...

The P-way team finished shaping the access ramp and topped out with some limestone. Then all 23 of the 60 ft rails were moved into position by the side of the trackbed. Sleepers and chairs will be moved up next, and then ballasting can start. ...

We are delighted to report that, apart from a little bit of final grading and rolling, the earthworks on the embankment are now complete. The embankment has been raised to give the correct 1:80 gradient between the Lamb House and Cattle Creep bridges ...

Work continued on the northern end of the embankment today, bringing in more fill, spreading it and rolling it. The aerial view shows the section of the embankment being reconstructed, looking north from Lamb House bridge towards our northern boundar ...