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New café opens tomorrow
The improved fire protection to the new Wharf Station building is almost complete and was approved yesterday (Wednesday 2nd March) by Gwynedd Council's Building Control Officer. The TR's Managing Director, David Mitchell, has started to move into his office; others will follow shortly.
The first-fit of display boards and structures has been completed in the museum. Amongst other items, the Awdry Study contains many bookshelves, fireplace and a dummy heater, whilst a replica signal box has been constructed on the first floor in which the S&T department has rebuilt the large ground frame. Painting is continuing; the ground floor ceiling is now grey, the columns a dark burgundy whilst wooden structures are white to show off the coloured graphic display panels when they are installed at a later date. Next week, the large engines will be moved into position, a complex operation.
Finally, the portable café building that has served us well as the refreshment room for so many years now was closed after business on Sunday 27th - it was a bumper Sunday attendance with queues out the door on several occasions. During this week, we have transferred all the equipment into the new kitchen and the "kitchen fitters" were here on Monday to snag and demonstrate how the equipment works. We are pleased to be able to announce, therefore, that the new refreshment room in the new building will be open for business from tomorrow morning, Friday 4th March. Opening times are 11 a.m. until around 2.30 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday each weekend until we start our daily train operating service on Wednesday 23rd March.
Yet another milestone and continued progress towards the opening up of the whole complex.