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A stretch of misplaced UK railway is being constructed 161 years late as a part of a key challenge. The unique monitor was by no means laid on a piece of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway (GWR) as a consequence of financial points. But now volunteer lovers are laying a brand new extension as a part of Project South Chord. The scheme will even see a brand new terminus station referred to as Clifton Maybank Junction put in place on the heritage line.

A fundraiser organised by Neil Coultas, challenge supervisor of the scheme, on behalf of South West Main Line Steam, which is aiming to garner £100,000, defined that the challenge in the end goals to increase the working line at Yeovil Railway Centre, utilizing a trackbed that was ready by the Great Western Railway in 1864. It is desribed as a “unique” enterprise. The new cease will “provide a better visitor experience and allow greater use of the centre’s events field,” Mr Coultas wrote.

He added: “The extension will help to ensure the future of Yeovil’s own steam railway. It will also create a new Somerset and Dorset railway, the extension crossing over the county boundary.

“By donating to the attraction you may be a part of railway historical past, reaching again to the Navvies of the Great Western Railway who began the work again in 1864 and serving to to make sure that their legacy lives on by serving to us to finish the trackbed and lay the monitor to complete the work.”

Work will also include the construction of an embankment to link the extension to the current running line, a new platform and a wheelchair and pushchair friendly path to our events field, Mr Coultas wrote.

He added: “All donations will assist and shall be gratefully obtained however we’re providing advantages for donations of £50 and over. On the weekend earlier than the brand new line opens we shall be holding a sponsor’s weekend, this is not going to be open to the general public.”

At the time of writing, £3,699 has been raised.

“When I’m working down there, I prefer to suppose again to the navvies of 1864, these guys who did all of the exhausting work getting ready the monitor mattress,” Mr Coultas told the BBC.

“We are lastly, lastly placing some monitor down there – constructing on their legacy.”