Vale of Rheidol Railway News: Out & About Over the last couple of months the marketing and booking office teams have been busy visiting various shows and a wedding fayre promoting the railway and what we can offer. In July we had a stand at the Rheidol Fun Day run by Statkraft the owners of the power station. Thankfully the bad weather soon went away giving a lovely day in the valley at the Visitor Centre and it provides a nice view of our railway from the valley floor.
At the end of July we spent 4 days at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells, with glorious weather. During august we spent the day with the Aeron Valley Railway Society at their annual Model Railway Exhibition held in Llwyncelyn Village Hall.
Permanent Way
The Track Maintenance Team
As the permanent way gangs trusty work horse is in the workshops recieiving some TLC, the permanent way gang have been using one of our vehicles to get around the line.
the sight lines for the train crews. Also a large section of overgrown scrub area alongside our line between Llanbadarn railway crossing and the river has been been cut back and cleared too, this improving the views for our During the last couple of months the big pro- passengers. jects that have been tackled have been large lineside clearance jobs. The vegetation at a The gang have also been busy performing section of the line known as Smithy’s Corner their usual day to day track inspections and has been cut back and cleared to improve maintenance of our railway.
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