SINGLE LINES

■ MATERIAL suitable for incorporation in the 440m-long embankment at Pont-y-Goedwig required for (orris Railway's southern extension was delivered in late March. Transport from a site near Dolgellau was undertaken by a local contractor, with the required plant and machinery able to work within current Government restrictions.

■ FFESTINIOG Railway

(FR) has confirmed the Covid-19 outbreak has forced cancellation of the June 20-21 Welsh Pony Launch event (RM

May). FR hopes its planned autumn Vintage Weekend will present another opportunity to launch the restored loco. FR has also confirmed cancellation of its Journey Into The Past heritage tours and annual Young Persons Training Week event, both projected for August.

■ RAVENGLASS Railway Museum and Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway have been awarded a £250,000 National Lottery grant towards restoration of the camping coaches Elmira and Maid of Kent, located at Ravenglass station.

■ CROWLE Peatland Railway has bought ex-Lisbon Tram

Car No. 711 from an Essex location with the help of the SSE Keadby Wind Farm Fund. Following cosmetic work the vehicle will enable the line to offer passenger rides in due course.

■ NORTH Bay Railway Engineering Services, currently closed because of the coronavirus crisis, has been contracted to build a new'ZB' boiler for Bure Valley Railway. The line has two'ZB'2-o-2sNo. 6 8/ickling Hall and No. 7

Spitfire- but the boiler could also be fitted to 2-6-4T No. 1O

Mark Timothy.

■ ADRIAN Shooter's Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Sharp, Stewart B-Class 0-4-0STT (3518/1888) No. 19, which spent last summer at Launceston Steam Railway, departed from Cornwall on April 3.

■ A 2FT-GAUGE target trolley built by DWickham & Co ofWare in Hertfordshire (3170/1943) and owned by

The Rail Trolley Trust has been placed on display in the museum at Statfold Barn Railway. These unmanned vehicles, powered by a-two-cylinder JAP petrol engine, carried representations of armoured vehicles to train troops in anti-tank gunnery. Long-term, the owning trust hopes to occasionally demonstrate the trolley in operation compete with target - but not under live fire!