Introducing the podcast of "Making Tracks" an ongoing report of rail activities by Alasdair Stewart, our Project Manager and award winning engineer. Within this podcast he interviews Mike Hart, Peter Barber and Gardner Crawley about the purpose and start of the project. Although this podcast contains several subjects we open on our slot. If you've not had enough why not scroll back to the start where the Lavender Line has its airing ..read more

Alasdair Stewart has been re-contracted by RVR Ltd as construction project manager. Those with long memories will remember his role in the development of the new RVR station at Robertsbridge Junction over 10 years ago, and before that his work on the construction of the Welsh Highland Railway.  Welcome back Alasdair! (Extract from RVR's SA magazine Phoenix issue 107 Spring 2024 ..read more

  image 1 East of A21. South of the alignment. More of the fencing has now been done. Well as much as we can for now. At the request of the neighbouring farmer the cross strands have been change for barbed wire, facilitating stock management. The above map representation is interactive. Allowing you to get a better context of what is happening, by zooming and clicking on the icons to obtain thee images. image 2 view NNE image 3 below - from Church Lane. image 4 - works gate access. Perhaps the biggest part of this post is a demonstration of early p ..read more

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 ,,,, previous image 2.1 - Northbank But as this is all about the tamping activity,,,,,,,,,  image 2.2 Fine tuning the device over the turnout.  Jamie trims for precision close to the blades. Having just come from earlier works at the Bluebell Railway.  image 2.3 Lifting the rail to allow the ballast to be packed. image 2.4 Jacking and packing the engineering precise way without all that grunt work. image 2.5 above - The Rother buffer, needed more than a little adjusting to get to tolerance, but all well done after the heavy ..read more

image 1.1 Early April saw the return of our regular Tamper to Robertsbridge as the preparatory work of our ground contractors and the volunteer p-Way crew had been done.  image 1.2 As the blog image materials were being collected, ballast was arriving, A-Woods, ground works, was busy around the site, the tamper was in full flow and one of our project engineers was assessing the next phase of works. Just another full day at Robertsbridge. video 1.3 image 1.4 image 1.5 On this visit the entire way from the turntable to the Rother Buffer stop was ..read more

Please accept my apologies for the delay to the promised regular news. We are all bound to experience computer failures at some point. This time I have had the joy of that in the way of a BIOS failure. It is surprising how much we depend not only on the computer, but the way it is set up and software, tailored to our daily needs. I guess it will take a few days to break in this new way of working so please bear with me whilst I try to catch up with the Railways experience and developments. TEDS ..read more

image 1 - against Northbridge Street Just a gate, well the significance is more interesting than the above image may first appear! The new alignment has started to be fence off in preparation for engineering works. The Railway is fencing Eastwards from Northbridge Street. image 2 - view East towards A21 The type of fencing used is now the standard for Network Rail. It is less liable to decay, is robust and can more readily be repaired.  image 3a -view East In the first instance the Railway has fenced the section between Northbridge Street and the A21. At thi ..read more

  image 1 - courtesy Peter B view West image 2 - view East courtesy Peter B Ballasted and prepped, but not completely finished. The p-Way gang was to return to do a bit more tidying before the Tamper does her stuff. Note Peter B - The right hand road will have a curve on it to run parallel to the mid track. image 3 image 4 video image 5 360 image (Deliberately blank) 360 image  (Deliberately blank) video image 8 zczc ..read more