On Track at the Strathspey Railway
An attempt to document the activities of the Strathspey Railway permanent way department
Sunday, 24 August 2025
Aviemore Running Shed Track - ending Saturday 23rd August
Thursday, 21 August 2025
Aviemore Running Shed - progress on Track
Georgie has done a lot of prep work to get the requisite materials to Aviemore, her aim is to get it completed in 10 days! - to achieve this Fergus and Alex (Stonemason) are being utilised on a fulltime basis - Many thanks to them.
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
On going concrete sleeper refurbishment
Back at the start of the year we were donated track panels by Network Rail from sidings on the West Highland Line. Georgie's aim is to refurbish enough good concrete sleepers (546!) for us to replace the ageing wooden ones on a 1/4 of a mile of track towards end of Dalfaber straight, over the closed season this coming Winter.
Below brief outline of the process -
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Change of scenery/task near end of line
Saturday 24th May saw an extra PWay day (away from the fishplate oiling of late)
Sunday, 16 March 2025
An extra day squeezed in completes two projects - 14/15 March 2025
Monday, 10 March 2025
Broomhill plainline complete - Saturday 8th March
Saturday saw a Broomhill meet, the February service trains compacted the hand packed ballast sufficiently to allow for Measured Shovel Packing to commence -
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Packing ballast Broomhill plainline - 11th February 2025
For mid-week, a big squad met at Broomhill,