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Good weather on Saturday allowed further excavation work on the eastern side of the embankment to progress smoothly. The spoil was transported across the bridge and dumped ready to be spread and compacted to form the railway embankment on the north s ...

In case you are thinking that we’ve all grabbed our picks and shovels then gone off down the line to move muck! ….we haven’t! Some of us are still grinding and hammering away at wagons and locos. The Brake Van is having new thick steel floor ...

Checking the levels for the construction of the new Trailway. This will be brought down to approximately the same level as the new trackbed, which will be at about the same level as the temporary trailway. We will need to excavate to a depth of as mu ...

An exciting day for the North Dorset Railway at Shillingstone. In order to comply with regulations, the NDR initiated its driver training programme on Wednesday. This involved our ICP (Independent Competent Person) and an assessor visiting the s ...

After another weekend of hard work, tree felling has been completed south of the bridge: there is just some final clearing up work left to do on Wednesday. Two gangs were working over the weekend, one chipping the brash (the technical term for small ...

The team have been working very hard clearing the trees to open up the route of the trackbed and the new Trailway along the embankment. We shall be replacing the felled trees with suitable native species on other parts of our site, in line with our p ...

More work on the extension on the Northern side of Lamb House Bridge. The team brought in hard core from earlier excavations at the station site to improve the haul road and help the dumper move timber from the felling of trees on the embankment. Thi ...

Whilst preparations were under way for the Project 62 open day last weekend, work continued on the western side of the embankment between the station and Lamb House Bridge, clearing the route of the temporary Trailway diversion. The ...

Work continued this weekend along the route of the temporary Trailway diversion on the Western side of the embankment, which will eventually be the track bed. Smaller vegetation is being cleared first: larger trees will be felled when they are no lon ...

The team started work this weekend on the South side of Lamb House Bridge, clearing the undergrowth along the West side of the embankment. This is where the temporary Trailway diversion will be built, keeping public access open whilst the permanent T ...

Lots more hard work this weekend: we had two gangs working on Saturday. One gang was replacing old defective sleepers (that were laid many years ago) in preparation for the jacking and packing of the track through the station. The other gang were rem ...

Saturday's work on the new northern boundary: we have created a "haul road" from the south side of the bridge to Bere Marsh field - this will allow us to remove the timber from the tree felling on the south side embankment to Bere Marsh safely. It al ...