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You can imagine that the 18 volunteers on site were happy to keep plugging away today, despite the wet and cold weather in the morning. The most common feature of the day was a rain drop on everyone's nose - at least I'm assuming it was rain. Activities for the day included:-
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Brian at work ... |
Brian from the line side clearance gang came along and did a masterful job on removing three rogue Ash trees that had self seeded in the eastern embankment. There is a great opportunity for a bonfire on Saturday!
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And just in case John, Steve and Gord make sure it lands in the right place! |

In spite of the weather some bricklaying was completed on Platform 2B and the new shelter came in to its own. Roger and Tony kept the corbelling going on the southern end, whilst Bob White sets up the end of 2B - yes the end of 2B

As you can see the sun did shine upon the righteous in the afternoon and there were some good photo opportunities, courtesy of Jo.
Work continued on putting a porch on Marguerite's Shed - an effort to keep the rain off the "stock" when the shed is open. It is not often we have three "Peters" on one job, but today we did! As you can imagine our funds will be severely depleted now that the signal box has been started, so please come along and support our cause by spending time (and money!) on the books and bric a brac.
In other areas, the brick cleaning of the plinth bricks for the signal box continued, and we are rather pleased that we have found the 250 or so required to do the job from our reclaimed stock.
Vic continued his efforts with landscaping the borders on the station driveway and its now looking very cared for. Lastly, and by no means least, Rod continued a one man assault on clearing the gully down in the car park. No fun, even on the best of days.
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John discusses details with the Forman from J&S |
6 comments:
Well done Bill. Can't wait to see the lever frame in position in the signal box. It has been sat here in Winchcombe shed for months waiting for the day... Andy P.
Well done all! Can't wait to see the signal box rise up! It is really starting to look like a proper Railway Station!! :)
The group are doing a fantastic job bringing Broadway station back to life. Is the end of 2B the end of the platform overall or is there a 2C yet to come?
Thanks!
Geoff
As a follow on from the above, could we have a platform plan or guide at some stage for us far away viewers! Thanks and keep up the GREAT work guys...
The platforms were lettered to identify the successive stages of construction.
We started with the middle chunks, being platforms 1 and 2. 1A and 2A are at the southern, Laverton end, while 1B and 2B are at the northern end. There may or may not be a 1C, that remains to be decided (and funded!)
Hope this is clearer. Once the platforms are finished, the letters will disappear.
Jo,
Thanks for the explanation - all makes sense now.
Geoff
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