Category: Abergwili Development
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Its beginning to look like a car park
As the festive season draws near, it is time for the Abergwili team to pause, look back at what has been achieved and then look forward to what remains to be done. As many of you will know the development of Abergwili Junction has been in the fore front of the railways thinking since the […]
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Life is a highway
Elsewhere on site the the slab for the new incoming electrical feed has been cast. It is expected that the new electric feed will be brought to site during January. We are extremely grateful to Envico Engineering of Swansea for the donation of the Kiosk that will form the new electrical switch room. Work has […]
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Kerb Stones and Milestones
Work has continued a pace on site with some key project milestones having been achieved in the last week. The first of these is the marking out and pouring of the foundations for Dan Do. As you will hopefully be aware the first phase of Dan Do will see the equivalent of 8 BR Mk1 […]
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Wake me up when September ends!
Visual progress on site has slowed down over the last few weeks with focus shifting toward the underground infrastructure. There however has still been plenty of progress on a lot of fronts. Ties waiting to be used for pulling cables. Elsewhere on site a start has been made on installing the curbing stones that will […]
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It ain’t half hot !
Yet again the sun has shone here in West Wales and boy has it been hot. This week has seen work focusing on bring the site to the correct levels. In the photo we can see the final car park level taking shape. The mound on the left is what is left to be used […]
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Sun, Sun, Sun
With wall to wall sunshine again this week the contractors have been making some serious progress on site. As we alluded to in last weeks the heavy plant is now on site and making big inroads in to the job at hand. For those of you not familiar with the history of our site at […]
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Better late than never !
The week two update has been delayed by a mixture of holidays, illness and injury amongst your blog authors. The contractors have however been busy beavering away. Week two saw the arrival of the first big machines to progress the site clearance. The tress and bushes that were cut down earlier in the year have […]
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End of the First Week
This week has seen the contractor focus on preparing the site ready for starting the major earth works in the coming weeks. This has seen a gap created in our boundary hedge for a new temporary entrance, with the trees from this location being transplanted to the the old temporary entrance to the site. Trees […]
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Two years in the Planning
Monday 18th July marks an important day for the Gwili Railway. We are, at last, commencing work on the development at Abergwili Junction. It has taken a small and dedicated team nearly two years of planning to reach this stage. Phase One of the project will see the construction of the access road, car park, […]
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