Well the weather did its best to beat the Broadway Volunteers today - gale force winds and unrelenting rain, but 14 Volunteers were undaunted and kept the show on track.
The main activities continue to be bricklaying on Platform 2B and on the Signal Box. The polythene shelters really came into their own once more.
On the right the third(final) row of corbelling is laid on 2B together with the last row of red backing bricks.
Here JC lays the 5th row of blues on the south east corner before the plinth headers go on.
There was also much excitement with the delivery of both the weathered reds (for the 3 buildings) from the Carlton Brick Company
and the delivery of the remaining blues for the signal box from Fairview.
This was a great day for the BAG Volunteers - we have the vital bricks to hand now for the main construction of all three buildings. The red specials for the Station and Waiting Room are currently being manufactured and will be with us in 8 weeks. All we need now is some descent weather!
Other achievements of the day included mounting a lantern on the southern most lamppost on 1A. More would have been done but the elements made it an impossible job!
Finally, and not least, 3 stalwarts spent all day down in the car park carrying out further clearance work. Here is Rod's report:-
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| Roger, Peter H and Paul |
On the right the third(final) row of corbelling is laid on 2B together with the last row of red backing bricks.
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| JC as happy as Larry...... |
Here JC lays the 5th row of blues on the south east corner before the plinth headers go on.
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| Carlton Bricks unload the 10,000 reds |
There was also much excitement with the delivery of both the weathered reds (for the 3 buildings) from the Carlton Brick Company
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| Fairview deliver the special blues for the signal box |
and the delivery of the remaining blues for the signal box from Fairview.
This was a great day for the BAG Volunteers - we have the vital bricks to hand now for the main construction of all three buildings. The red specials for the Station and Waiting Room are currently being manufactured and will be with us in 8 weeks. All we need now is some descent weather!
Other achievements of the day included mounting a lantern on the southern most lamppost on 1A. More would have been done but the elements made it an impossible job!
Finally, and not least, 3 stalwarts spent all day down in the car park carrying out further clearance work. Here is Rod's report:-
Hi Bill,
Just a quick update.
Keith, Terry and myself had a good day with our
favourite ditch. A lot more tidying up done including the removal of loads of
ivy
from the trees we are keeping, some of the ivy
stems were up to two inch diameter so the trees are probably quite relieved.
The birds boxes
and numbers can be seen again.
We also had a go at the road drain gully on the
station side of the bridge. We found that when the Highways replaced the gully
a few years ago
they also put in a plastic pipe to connect it to
the ditch before it goes under the road. Problem being when we discovered the
end of the pipe
the last couple of feet had quite a rise on it,
enough to make it level with the gully in the road. As you know water wont go uphill
hence the small lake
on the road, a bit of spade work and it’s
pointing in the right direction, small lake down to a big puddle. The puddle
will stay as they also failed
to put the gully at the lowest point under the
bridge. Still fingers crossed what we’ve done and with the work done by Andy P
the situation should be a lot better.
Cheers Rod
And a couple of nice extra pics from Jo:-
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| JC explains the the steel structures to Rod and Terry... |
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| the Surgeons washing up.. |
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| The Carlton driver rises to the challenge of reversing up the Drive....mind that bridge!!! |
5 comments:
OMG how much you have done! The station buildings will be up in no time! great work! Aaron :-)
Amazing work guys, inspirational!
This blog is fast becoming THE most readable and interesting, not to mention inspirational, railway preservation news!! come my retirement I will be there!! ( not long to go)
Absolutely fantastic work chaps! It really is a tremendous pleasure to read this blog and to see all of the marvellous progress at Broadway!
And example of Dawlish perhaps?
I wonder what the transfer fee might be. You might need to double the biscuit ration Bill.
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