Barna Railway News

BARNA RAILWAY NEWS 2009

" The latest news from Barna Railway"

11/04/09

I've started work on a small signal cabin for the boiler house sidings. Hopefully I will have it finished by the end of the month.

30/03/09

It was a lovely Spring day today so I managed to get out and do some track cleaning and points maintenance. I got the trains out for a quick test run, it was nice to see them running again.

25/02/09

Our new baby boy was born today, we called him Ryan.

22/02/09

The rewire is now finished and fully tested. It took a full three days to do the job, I used 100 metres of twin and earth cable, six new junction boxes and 500 clips to fixed the cables to the track bed.

This is my ballast cleaner, I used this to remove the ballast from the edge of the track and in between the sleepers. I put the vacuum cleaner hose into the hole at the top right on the lid and the ballast can be sucked into the box through the 25mm black hose.

Once the cable route was clear of ballast I then clipped the cables into place and covered over with new ballast.

20/02/09

Following a full examination of the external power cables I decided to start a full rewire of both the lighting supply and track supply cables today. I will install two new ring circuits using 1.5sq twin and earth cable clipped along the track bed and then covered in ballast.

02/02/09

We had the first snow fall of 2009 today, the snow started early in the morning and continued to fall until the afternoon.

I cleared the track and ran a few short trains for about an hour, I managed to get a new few photos for the Winter Gallery.

The forecast is for more tonight.

21/01/09

A serious power supply problem has caused the lights to go out in the Barna Junction Cabin, the Kelso Goods Depot and several buffer lamps. After a quick inspection of the cables, I found a lot of damage to the insulation due to mice and in some places the cable have been eaten right through. The track supply cables are also damaged so it looks like a full rewire is required, thankfully the points control cables are not affected as these are of a higher quality.

12/01/09

The economy might be in recession but the Barna Railway is still taking on more staff. I have started another six Permanent Way lads this week, bringing the total to sixteen.

02/01/09

Our new Permanent Way staff started work today.

They didn't get much of a chance to rest, as you can see they went into action straight away.

There are ten new lads in the gang, I think the other five were having tea in the van.

I reckon these lads will be busy over the coming year.

01/01/09

Happy New Year to all our website visitors.

With a bit of luck we might get some snow like we did last year as the Winter Gallery could do with a few new images.

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