North Ings Farm Museum & Railway

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We are a small museum at Dorrington on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens specialising in agricultural equipment. Open 1st Sunday of the Month, April to October

The museum has a collection of tractors, agricultural machinery, and a narrow gauge railway.

31/05/2026

Point Installation Day. A layer of crushed concrete, followed by some 2in limestone ballast. The sleepers were then cut to length and the point lowered into place. The points slotted perfectly into the cut gap. Initial sleeper packing with 1in limestone ballast, and the points spiked to the sleepers. Finally the sleeper bays filled with 1in ballast and fully tamped. The track will need further tamping once it has had some use.

A good day's work, helped by all the preparation done last week.

24/05/2026

Following removal of the rails last week, we were able to dig out the trackbed using the digger - far easier on a hot day. The approach track was levelled ready for installing the points.

17/05/2026

Work has commenced on installing a set of right-hand points in the locomotive shed to create a fourth storage road. The existing track has been lifted, ready for the track formation to be dug out to allow installation of some wood sleepers.

With a large radio controlled car event at the adjacent field, the digger was left in its shed until next weekend.

26/04/2026

A fine sunny day allowed us to cast the cafe entrance ramp. The Liner Concrete Machinery Company mixer was running all day with batches of concrete while the mortar for the bricks was mixed by hand. The completed ramp is now covered to prevent the museum cat from signing the work!

Painting of the rear wall of the museum building was finished apart from the black bottom band.

19/04/2026

Today's main tasks were preparing to fit a ramp to the cafe entrance. The area has been dug out ready for the brickwork and concrete. Over in the loco shed, a start was made clearing the floor area around the entrance rails ready for them to be lifted out and replaced with a right-hand point. This will provide further under-cover storage. One of our volunteers has been renovating some of the signs and the entrance sign from the car park has been finished.

30/03/2026

Further work tidying the museum ready for opening on Sunday. The tractors in the locomotive shed were cleaned and further painting of the wall in the exhibition hall. Initial cleaning in the cafe and toilet block.

22/03/2026

With two weeks to our first open day of 2026, work concentrated on the main exhibition hall. A number of items were removed from the roof space, the stationary engines and cultivator equipment were washed down, and further paint applied to the back wall.

15/03/2026

Following a final tamp of the tarmac planings, the collection of mechanical, hand and horse cultivators were returned to the main building. See captions for details. A few jobs remain to be tackled over the next two Sundays, ready for the museum to re-open on Easter Sunday.

02/03/2026

A small working group completed finished spreading the tarmac planings in the exhibition hall, moving the wood store and vintage oil cans which were behind the conveyor belt. Once the planings are tamped, the remaining cultivator machinery can be moved back into the building to complete the display.

22/02/2026

Sunny Sunday, and the remainder of the floor in the exhibition hall had the tarmac planings laid. It will receive a further tamp next week, ready for the small cultivators to return, and free up space elsewhere.

Address

Fen Road, Dorrington, Ruskington
Lincoln
LN43QB

Telephone

+441526833100

Website

http://www.northingsfarmmuseum.co.uk/

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