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Killington Lane in the Snow

Feb
08
2009

The weather in North Devon has been somewhat wintery of late. 

Last week, some of our hardy members were able to provide proof with photos of activities at Woody Bay. Yesterday (Saturday) John Mack Smith and his camera made it as far as Killington Lane, and has provided these two scenes:

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Work in Progress - Thursday 5th February

Feb
05
2009

Heavy snow settling on Western Exmoor early this morning almost resulted in the cancellation of the weekly volunteers work party.

However four volunteers did manage the journey from Barnstaple, Braunton, Combe Martin and even Exeter, supplementing the two members of staff from Ilfracombe and Parracombe. The roads were clear by 10:00 although the snow lay thick and even all over the site at Woody Bay.

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Woody Bay Snow Scenes

Feb
04
2009

In an example of Life follows Art; Woody Bay looked much more like the recent Lilliput Lane sculpture than usual this week, following the recent Winter weather.  Despite the difficulties, several members were able to get in to record the scene...

 

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Get your raffle tickets now!

Feb
04
2009

 Members - Have you returned your raffle tickets yet? 

There is just two weeks left to get those draw tickets back to Woody Bay!

 

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Work in Progress - Thursday 29th January

Jan
30
2009

After last weekends mammoth undertakings, the Thursday Group volunteers probably deserved an easy week, but not a bit of it!

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New: L&B Signalling introduction

Jan
30
2009

A new page has been added to the historical L&B section - an introduction to Signalling on the L&B, researched by L&B member Chris Osment - thanks Chris!

If you have any items of interest related to the L&B, that you would like to be added to this website, please contact the webmaster via the Contacts link below.

 

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Work in Progress - Sunday 25th January

Jan
26
2009

A very successful weekend with considerable work undertaken on the L&B Railway both at Woody Bay and down the trackbed at Parracombe. Teams of volunteers from the Isle of Wight, Talyllyn Railway and a few Devon and Dorset based volunteers completed all the rail relaying through the platforms on the Friday - and ahead of schedule.

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Work in Progress - Saturday 24th January

Jan
26
2009

The L&B January working weekend continued at a similar pace to the previous two days.   

The first job on Saturday was to remove the rails that had been lifted the day before, stacking them securely ready for future use.  Some will be kept at Woody Bay for use as fence posts.

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Work in Progress - Friday 23rd January

Jan
26
2009

The working weekend continued on Friday, with a gang including teams from the Talyllyn and Isle of White railways, and more local members, soon had the new rails in place.  A second track gang was working further down (or Up!) the line towards Killington Lane.

A very welcome lunch was provided in the Station buffet. Teresa was able to keep the hunger pangs at bay, coping with a lunch running to three shifts!

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Work in Progress - Thursday 22nd January

Jan
26
2009

This Thursday was the first day of another major working track weekend on the L&B, with many of the regular local volunteers joined by groups from the Isle of Wight Railway and the Talyllyn Railway. The weekends main task will be to re-rail both up and down platform roads at Woody Bay with 30 foot long rails to replace the 15 foot rails laid in 2003.

 

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