As you will recall Evergreens Miniature Railway gained a grant award back in the beginning of August to facilitate disabled access to Evergreens and onto the 71/4″ gauge trains. We have not been standing still and this is an update on progress so far with the disabled access project. After […]
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A busy day for the small band of volunteers who came along today. Although the weather was a bit dismal, we managed to get most of the grass cut and a little bit of weeding. Work continued on our 5in gauge steaming bays and one of our members delivered some […]
Today we have been busying ourselves with a number of tasks.Grass cutting, site surveying, weed clearance from our tracks and locomotive testing.All in readiness for our next Open Day on Wednesday the 21st August. 11.00am to 2.00am.
Another busy day at Evergreens with maintenance work and looking at planning the layout for the new station canopy and the path which are part of the accessibility project for which we received the grant award. A wood frame ‘mock up’ of the dimensions of the proposed station canopy design […]
Today at Evergreens, a small gang of volunteers were able to continue with some track replacement on the 5 inch gauge raised track while others carried out some routine maintenance . Plus, we had a four legged helper today.
We’re ready…… Our volunteers have been busy today, getting the site ready for our next Open Day on Saturday the 29th of June. If you are going to visit us we hope you will feel very welcome. Our entrance fee of £5.00 each or £18 for a family of 4, […]
Saturday was a busy day at Evergreens, it was members fun day and a trustee meeting. Everyone brought out their engines and had them running around in the sunshine. Lots of members turned up and enjoyed themselves, chatting over their engines, getting steam up and gathering in front of the […]
Yesterday, our signalling wizard Zak was busy fitting his part-finished signals that he is constructing, to see if he needs to make any adjustments. I think you will agree, they certainly look the business. Well done Zak.
Today we were very pleased to support National Volunteer Week.Thanks to the Co-op who had arranged to bring a group of volunteers to Evergreens, our volunteer numbers were greatly increased. Our own volunteers were ably assisted by staff members from the Co-op, members of the public and some members of […]