Visit to Woody Bay - Sunday 5th April

Nigel Thompson took a day off from the usual work parties in order to sample Woody Bay as a visitor whilst showing around a small group visiting from the Mid-Hants Railway. As always, Nigel took his camera along,and here are the results:  

1. AXE departs with the four carriage train at 1030

2. Superb Exmoor scenery as AXE returns to Woody Bay at 1045

 The group then caught the 1115 train to Killington Lane for a footpath walk down to view the trackbed.
 

4. A ewe and her lambs 'shelter' under the remains of cattle creep, bridge 64

5. The L&B's trackbed at Cricket Field Lane after last winter's tree clearance

6. The cleared cutting from the filled-in section near Parracombe Lane Bridge

7. AXE awaits departure from Killington Lane with the 1215 to Woody Ba

8. The visitors watching AXE coaling and watering from the new viewing area

9. AXE being coaled and watered ready for the next train 

Meanwhile, some work was going on by the weekend's volunteers:

10. Hugh Bland rakes out the levelled and reseeded upper lawn area

11. The area where the temporary toilet Portakabins stood until recently - now landscaped and reseeded

12. Richard Burgess, back in action, repairing some hand tools in the shed

13. Bogie open wagon No.12 under reconstuction in the new shed extension

14. The train crew enjoy afternoon tea on the platform bench before AXE departs with the last train at 1545

Visitor Henry from Taunton enjoyed his day at Woody Bay with a train ride and afternoon cream tea. His cousin had travelled on the original railway in 1935 and had managed to acquire a signalling token when the line closed in 1935. 

15. Henry with the Wooda Bay-Lynton token