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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.

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.

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.

The main job today for the well attended Thursday work party was the installation of base plates on the re-railed section of line between Woody Bay and Bridge 67.  When the line was rerailed during winter 2008-9 the new sleepers added near the rail joints were fixed with spikes and ex MOD plates. A recent deal with a supplier which involved the exchange of unsuitable rail for new base plates has provided the base plates to enable this section of track to be upgraded to our uniform high standard.