BODMIN & WENFORD RAILWAY TRUST

The latest project of the trust is the building of a Carriage Storage Shed at Bodmin Parkway. 

When completed this summer the shed will be able to house up to 12 coaches.  (4 coaches on each of 3 tracks).

Bodmin Parkway has been used as long term storage sidings for many years but vehicles left here suffer from the cold and the damp.   The new purpose built building will protect those vehicles waiting to be restored as well as those used infrequently.  The Railway hopes to gain more historic vehicles in the future and this will be the ideal storage location.  This project has been entirely funded by the Trust.

Left - At the construction site the concrete is poured into the foundations.  Some of the holes are behind the buffer stops so the concrete has to be moved by hand in wheel barrows.  One digger bucket full is one wheel barrow full.  Many wheel barrow loads are required per hole and there is a lot of holes.

On Saturday 28th April resleepering is taking place.  As rarely used sidings many of the sleepers were in poor condition.  The train is delivering sleepers to the site whilst the digger is used to clean out the track bed.

All of the materials for the construction were brought in by train from Bodmin General.  this included all the steel work, cladding sheets and the lift platforms.  These platforms are carried transversely on the Lowmac wagon.  The rough terrain forlklift (left, painted red in the distance) was driven down the line from Charlie's Gate.