The hut from Abergavenny as it now looks after many months of restoration work that is still ongoing to some extent as it must be with a structure that is 135 years old. This has now been open as the Trust's second museum facility at Toddington since the Autumn of 2006. This is slowly being developed to allow hands on access to some of the exhibits. The old hand pump on the south wall does pump water out of a small container, which rhen drops through a funnel back into it; Visitors can ring up 3/2½d on the cash till inside the door, and the armature of a small electric motor can be set spinning by pressing a contact
What is missing in the story of this building so far is its adventure in getting to this location following its arrival in one piece on the back of a lorry. It was unloaded on the west side of Toddington car park before this had been surfaced with tarmac; but with this work scheduled to start during the railways close season, the hut needed to be moved during the winter. The original plan had been to load it back on to a lorry and drive it round into the field to the east of the station, from where it could be craned over the fence. The wet state of the ground in December prevented this however so the alternative involved craning it across the car park in two lifts and dropping it onto a well wagon which it overhung on both sides. This out of gauge load was then shunted through the yard only clearing the goods shed on one side and some fixture on the other by a couple of inches and out on the main line. When it reached the platform slope it was found to be sitting about an inch too low on the wagon to clear and after jacking up & packing this side it only crept under Toddington footbridge by a similar margin. Having reached a point opposite to its ultimate location there was still the minor problem of getting it lifted up to platform level, across this & up a 3 foot bank. This final journey required needed 3 men & two days work with jacks to finally get the building sitting on the concrete pad that had been laid for it. The pictures below give an idea of what was involved
