Swindon & Cricklade inches closer to town
By: Robin Jones
The Swindon & Cricklade Railway been progressing its extension to a new terminus on a Greenfield site in Moulden Hill Country Park.
A new embankment has been constructed to carry the railway into the country park, with large storm drain culverts incorporated into it, and the trackbed has been ballasted ready to receive rails.
Unusually, the railway has used road scrapings (the top surface of roads planed off in resurfacing operations) to make good the trackbed before ballasting.
However, a solution has yet to be found to the issue of bridge 107 which is known to be weak structure.
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