Sunday 12 August 2018
The access to the turntable at Western Hills MPD has been a bit of an issue for larger steam locomotives due to uneven track! The Fat Controller allocated funds to be used to replace the approach track. Work started with the removal of old track and splitting the boards. Cleaning away the old tack ballast New copper strips were fitted at the joints and code 100 track laid to turnout 15 using a code 100 to 75 adaptor rail droppers were replace and tested new ballast laid and surrounding ground work made good.
