The club grounds undergo regular maintenance work, by a dedicated group of volunteers
Club Maintenance Works
Ground Level Track Improvements
A small group of our members volunteer to dedicate some of their time to maintaining and improving the tracks at Worden Park in a constant rolling program of upgrades and repairs to ensure rides are always available to the public. We also run a wheelchair carriage to ensure as many people as possible can enjoy the pleasure of riding the trains!
The images below show where our team have widened platform 1 at the wheelchair siding end, in order to remove a pinch point. This required modifying the position and length of the siding. At the same time they extended the passenger waiting area for a better passenger experience.
Wheelchair Access Improvements
The images below show where our team have widened platform 1 at the wheelchair siding end, in order to remove a pinch point. This required modifying the position and length of the siding. At the same time they extended the passenger waiting area for a better passenger experience.
Ground Level Track
A third track using a new set of points plus a disused set has been laid through the station to be used as a passing loop. Extra watering points to keep the locomotives running were added along the fence to cater for the new track . The work
involved moving the rear fence and signal box, in order to give therequired clearance for the new track. Also an additional point control has been added to control the third track.
The additional third track made it possible to extend the left siding length, so that a full train length can now be stabled there. Another set of points was constructed for the second siding and the third siding was removed.
Orritt's Folly
The bypass line called "Orritt’s Folly" was in need of some T.L.C. due to flooding in wet weather and ballast contamination. So a decision was taken to remove the track and take out some of the ballast in order to lay a centre field drain. New ballast was then filled to the correct level, tamped down and the track panels with new sleepers replaced, again tamped down ready for levelling and aligning. The pedestrian crossing was re-instated with level access at each side of the track.
The finishing touch, will be infilling with soil on the outside of the edge boards, in a number of places.
Orritt's Folly is named after a member who has sadly passed away.
Building a New Coal Bunker
In changing times, it was decided that we needed another secure place to store coal to increase our storage capacity.
A wider bunker was built alongside the existing bunker over a number of weeks.
Now it is finished, and full of coal, it was noted that it was a splendid team effort with brick layers, carpenters, concrete mixers, drillers and welders all working in unison. As time goes by it may prove to be a valuable asset.
