All pictures in this section courtesy of Phin Sloan. The pit siding had been delayed by other works taking precedence but finally the last 53 feet of track and a rail built buffer stop were installed and work completed in November 2017. The following photos show the work on this final section of the pit […]
All pictures in this section courtesy of Phin Sloan. The UDV was moved into the shed, in the beginning of September 2017 to allow some heavy work to be done on the coupling rods. The coupling rods join the wheels together so they all rotate at the same speed. The coupling rods required new bearings […]
All pictures courtesy of Graham Barron. The last of the Santa Specials ran on Sunday 17th December 2017. The unit used was a hybrid of our 2 regular DMUs. The Dufftown car Driver Motor Brake Standard from Spirit of Speyside was coupled to the Keith Town car Driver Motor Composite of Spirit of Banffshire for […]
SPIRIT OF DUFFTOWN The catering we do for our charters is carried out by KDRA and will be done in the Spirit of Dufftown under the name of KDRA Catering. The Spirit of Dufftown is our exclusive Catering Coach run by the Keith & Dufftown Railway Association for charters and pre-booked groups in excess of […]
The Board has agreed that the following are the priority projects: Medium Term – To provide or reinstate 4 railway halts. One of these halts, Towiemore is now operational, the remaining halts are still under discussion with all interested parties so no further details can be provided at this stage. Long Term – To re-establish […]
The Tuesday Work Party at Dufftown station historically tended to concentrated on “light work” i.e. smaller tasks that tend to appear further down the list of priorities e.g. painting and keeping the environment tidy etc. However, they are now involved in more major work such as the refurbishment of our rolling stock, Permanent Way […]