Vale of Rheidol Railway News
New Vale of Rheidol Railway carriage storage and conservation store completes second phase of £2.2million ‘Wales to the World’ project
Construction of Vale of Rheidol Railway’s new Museum collection and heritage rolling stock protection shed has been completed at its Aberystwyth terminus. Costing £531,000 to build and equip, the state-of-the-art structure can accommodate the equivalent of 36 VoR bogie carriages on its three roads in secure covered accommodation. Two full length roads, each long enough to accommodate 12 carriages, will house VoR’s two standard seven-carriage service rakes when not in use with additional capacity for further stock storage. The third road incorporates a ‘building within the building’ partitioned from the main element of the shed with an electric sectional door. The equivalent of 10 bogie carriages in length, this storage area has been constructed to house historically important locomotives and stock in a heated and ventilated temperature-controlled environment. The centre road of the building incorporates a pit near the entrance doors to enable maintenance of carriage bogies and a section of reinforced flooring to accommodate lifting jacks. Page 4
