Welsh Highland Railway^®
Rheilffordd Ucheldir Cymru

Pont Croesor Extension

Penmount Crossing


These views show Penmount Crossing in August 2000 The track at this point will have to be lowered from the existing level, by a few inches, to fit in with the current road levels.	28Aug00 Towards Minffordd	28Aug00 Pen-y-Mount Station
	28Aug00 Towards Tremadog	28Aug00 Towards Pont Croesor
'Limit of Shunt' During the Foot and Mouth crisis, this was the closest we could get. As can be seen, the next job will be to remove all the remaining rubbish from this section.	Mar01	1Sep01
Work restarts at last, and a temporary gate has been installed across the trackbed.		Aug01
Christmas 2001, and kissing gates are installed for the footpath.	Dec01	Dec01
		Dec01

Feb 2003, and the tree surgeon had been.	Feb03	Feb03
March 2003, and the alignment has been set out with pegs.	Mar03	Mar03
Spring bash '03, and the 'haul road' starts	Mar03	Mar03

Penmount Crossing is started	Oct05	Oct05
Oct05	Oct05	Oct05



Oct05	Oct05	Oct05
Oct05	Oct05	Oct05
	Oct05	Oct05

New joggle fish plates between SAR & polish rail		Mar06

Concreting the crossing, using Porthmadog Concrete's 'Longest Concrete Conveyer in Wales'	Dec06	Dec06
Dec06	Dec06	Dec06

Christmas 2006 and the crossing is almost complete.	Dec06	Dec06

Planting the sign posts.	Jan07	Jan07

Putting up the signs.	Mar07	Mar07