Clear up of old railway site
Saturday 8th May 2010, 9:33AM BST.
Workers begining clearing the tracks at the Cambrian visitors centre, Oswestry.
It was once one of the region’s main railway engineering centres.
Oswestry was a railway town, hundreds employed on the railways and, not one, but two train stations.
But for almost half a century Oswestry’s remaining railway station building has been without the hustle and bustle of trains – a victim of the Dr Beeching axe that saw railways across Britain shut down in the 1960s.
This week a task force joined volunteers from the Cambrian Heritage Railways working to clear the line at the station platform as the railways group began its bid to reopen an eight-mile stretch of the line.
The workforce from the Future Jobs Fund is made up of a dozen young people, aged between 18 and 25, who have previously been unemployed.
Nigel Davies, for the Cambrian Heritage Railways, said members of the task force were incredibly hard working and were really making a difference on the railway.
He said: “At the moment we are working to improve the ‘Island’ platform which used to serve trains going to Ellesmere and Whitchurch in the 1960s. Materials that we are salvaging will then be used to rebuild the main platform at the station.
“The Future Jobs Fund will be working on the line for the next six months, by which time we hope that trains will be able to use the main platform at the station building.”
Cambrian Heritage Railways hopes to clear the line through Oswestry as far as the Gasworks Bridge by November. The group is also continuing to develop the section of line at Llynclys which it has been running trains on for the past five years.
Work began to reinstate the section of old railway in 2002. This included a new station at Llynclys South, built in a style to fit in with the 1950s appearance of the railway.
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