Category: Abergwili Development
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Don’t stop believing…..
Good Friday, 7th of April 2023 marked the culmination of nearly twenty years of dreaming, two years of planning and fundraising and twelve months of hard work by the railways volunteers. Turning this previous brown field site, in to the new HQ of the railway. Good Friday was the first running day of the 2023…
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Its the final count down
With the clock steadily ticking down towards the opening of the site on the Easter weekend, activity on site has been steadily ramping up The first of the major projects has seen a small team focus on laying the new water feed to site. This requires the team to lay and trench nearly 500m of…
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Station to Station
Work continues apace at Abergwili. The first bit of good news is that the at the end of December the railway purchased a new road rail vehicle. This was delivered to us in the second week of January and was pressed in to service straight away. We are grateful to Quattro for the help and…
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All change!
This month has seen focus shift away from Abergwili and towards our station at Bronwydd Arms. This might seem an odd one for this blog given it is focussed on our endeavour at Abergwili but they are all interlinked I can assure you! So the end of December was a historic point in the history…
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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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