CARROG STATION PROJECT LIST

The comprehensive list below will give you a good idea of the amount of work still to be done here. The Friends of Carrog group has dwindled down to a dedicated few as most have gone on to other projects elsewhere on the railway, so we are grateful for any willing hands to help undertake these necessary tasks.There is something for everyone- skilled or not!

1. General Maintenance.

a) Painting

b) Window cleaning

c) Lamps

d) Whiteline repainting

e) Road and car park maintenance

f) Gutters

g) Paths

h) Fences

i) Hedge cutting

j) Weed killing

k) Periodic electrical testing, maintenance, seasonal modifications and santa

setups etc.

2. Signal Box.

a) Clean brickwork

b) Glazing and window repairs

c) Wood cover for lamp switch and telephone.

d) Painting (major item-one years work)

3. Waiting Room

a) Clean brickwork

b) Lead flashing repair

c) Fireplace

d) Skirting

e) Tiling

f) Painting

4. Platform 1&2

a) Point up brickwork

b) Build sleeper crossings

5. Platform 2 path

a) Dechair sleepers, complete weir path.

b) Drains improvements

c) Surface

6. Main Entrance

a) Replace paving at porch

7. Spear Fencing

a) Make up panels.

b) Install east end platform 1

c) Install at toilet block

8. Electrical

a) Complete enclosure at 5199 coach

b) ditto weighbridge

9. Special events Santas, Transport extrav. etc.

a) Put up

b) Take down

10. Toilet block/bin area

a) Support existing brick retaining wall with bull head rail set in concrete

and tension bar.

b) Rebuild dry stone walls.

11. Retaining wall at Platform 2.

a) Stabilise bank and rebuild wall (after wood signal post

installation)

12. Signal posts.

a) Dry store and conserve wood signal posts.

b) Determine design requirements for 6 individual posts.

c) Reshape/finish posts

d) Treat/paint posts.

e) Prepare steel supports and fit to post.

f ) Install.

13. Sidings.

a) Sleeper buffer stops

b) Loading gauge

c) Telegraph poles

d) Ballast track

14. Car Park & entrance road.

a) Determine and install drainage

b) Resurface

c) Landscape

d) Dispose of unwanted items and rubbish.

e) Remove crane

f ) Transfer of Weston Rhyn box to Corwen

 

15. Gardening

a) Spring planting.

b) Autumn planting

c) Pruning

d) Weeding

16. Urinal

a) Install ½ roof over urinal

b) Fit slate backing and divisions to wall

c) Render walls

d) Tile walls

e) Water pipe to outside tap

f) Manufacture/obtain internal lamp and install

g) Install adjust dress and gents signs

17. Main Buildings

a) Roof repairs

b) Replace plastic gutters with CI.

c) Paint

d) Maintenance

e) Re-glaze cracked windows

f ) Complete repairs to fire places

g) Attend to bird nest holes etc

18. Toilet Block

a) Finish internal painting & decorating

b) Rearrange internal fitments, drier etc