Two Separate Shows attended over a Single Weekend

The Committee of the Heritage Railway Association visited Woody Bay on Saturday 10 July.

Arriving just after 2:15 PM, with Chairman David Morgan were committee members David Woodhouse, John Crane, Geoffrey Claydon, Bill Hillier, David Madden, Peter Ovenstone, Ian Smith, Chris Smyth and Steve Wood as well as their hosts the Chairman and some of the directors and employees of the Cliff Railway.  Representing the L&B were Trust Chairman Peter Miles, and Secretary Tony Nicholson,  and Company Managing Director Keith Vingoe and Secretary Brom Bromidge.

Today, work began on the latest track improvement project at Woody Bay. Back in summer 2002 the first track laid on the awakening L & B R was the transhipment siding from the car park down to the station.  This track was laid by the volunteers using 40lb. weight rail spiked onto the sleepers.

Over the years the transhipment line has seen the passage of many different locomotives coming and going to and from the railway, including SNAPPER, STATFOLD, BRONLLWYD, JUSTINE, SID and AXE.

During the morning the permanent way gang today completed the job of upgrading a stretch of track at Killington Lane with new baseplates replacing the temporary ex MOD spiked plates installed last year.

After finishing this project the whole one mile line running line from Woody Bay to Killington Lane is now 50lb. weight rail on pandrol clipped baseplates screwed into sleepers throughout.

Sunday 11th July 10:00-17:00

All volunteers welcome at Woody Bay to assist with some major upgrading of trackwork on the transhipment siding next Sunday, 11th July.

A Bright and sunny summers day on Exmoor.  The Thursday gang were tasked with a variety of track maintenance jobs such as jacking and packing a low spot near one of the occupation crossings and further tidying of the track ballast by raking the stone off the sleeper ends and levelling the shoulder as required.

Finally by 3pm all the remaining untidied ballast along the whole line had been attended to for this year by the permanent way gangs.