tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82468425299698068282024-02-19T04:27:54.137+00:00Steaming to Broadway!Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.comBlogger1039125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-42053272430227087062015-07-16T14:19:00.002+01:002015-07-16T14:19:39.219+01:00New Broadway Station Rebuild Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A new Blog is now being maintained, cataloging progress on the Broadway Station rebuild. It can be found at :-<br />
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-49072045361298575912015-05-13T22:00:00.001+01:002015-05-17T21:17:06.851+01:00The Last Post - 1038<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Dear Blog supporters and friend's of the Broadway Station Project.</b><br />
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Those who think I am removing the blog in a fit of pique do not know me at all! I will leave a copy of the Archived Blog on line, but it will not accept further comments or changes.<br />
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I have also created a new Blog call "Steaming to Broadway - the Next Chapter" which can be used by the BAG team if they wish.<br />
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.com134tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-37038305919044630702015-05-11T18:20:00.000+01:002015-05-11T18:20:55.860+01:00A Monday updateYes, it's Monday, we know. But the CRC2 gang, a subsection after all of the Broadway gang, moved north from Cheltenham for the rest of the day, after casting another step at CRC2, and finishing off the drain behind the wall. So you get an extra Broadway special. <br />
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There's something very satisfying about slating the roof, and we suspect this is what drove the gang to drive north and carry on. After tea, of course, and some mini Swiss rolls.You can get quite absorbed in the slating, and if you are not careful, you can slate yourself right into a corner. Can you still get down from there, John?<br />
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This view shows the southern face of the roof completed, leaving only the back to do now. John has a mouthful of nails; now is not the time to ask him a favour.<br />
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Downstairs, Keith got the job of Manager in Charge of Supplies. The beautiful slates are tightly packed in crates, and have to be teased out, put in a wheelbarrow and taken up to the roof in the hoist.<br />
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Elsewhere on the site, we find Brian with a sack full of cowslips that he brought from home. These he planted on the Malvern side of the cutting. Ideally, we would like to return the sides to their 1960 condition, ie a meadow with flowers. This will need a lot of hard work rooting out the brambles and self seeded tree stumps, but regular strimming should see the meadow return.<br />
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Another of our regular gardeners is Vic. He has done exceedingly well with the strip with the Cotswold stone wall, and here we see him weedkilling 1c so that it does not get overgrown before we are ready to put the top level of tarmac on.<br />
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In these two pictures we see Brian and Keith breaking up the crates in which the slates were delivered. <br />
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Some of the fencing material was also moved back a bit, with the whole area being tidied ready for our open evening. It's on Friday 22nd May. Will you be there? It's your chance to see the works from ground level, have a drink and a snack and chat to us. We'd love to hear from you, especially if you have some memories or souvenirs of the station as it was.<br />
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Having finished the southern face of the roof, the gang moved round to the rear. We do admire the colour of the slates, and the regularity with which they are laid. A brilliant job.<br />
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Once this face is finished, the ridge tiles can be placed. We still need to source these, not all have the correct angle, and ours have a special roll on top as well.<br />
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The chimney that you can see also needs its flashing to be added.<br />
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Check us out on Wednesday !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-61834577380509383132015-05-09T20:17:00.000+01:002015-05-09T20:17:46.486+01:00Saturday 9th May 2015 - Broadway Area Group AGM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was the BAG AGM this morning and there was a good attendance. This may have been enhanced with the knowledge that the GWSR plc Chairman, Alan Bielby and Commercial Director, Colin Fewell were in attendance for the first part of the Meeting. This was to help the volunteers understand the current Broadway Project Financial and Design Strategy. It was a lively meeting, but there were no bodies left on the floor at the end of it. I think everyone appreciated the time taken by Alan and Colin to further our understanding of some of difficult decisions ahead. The remainder of the meeting proceed as planned and I only came away with a few flesh wounds.<br />
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Back on site work continued on the Signal Box and some great progress was made. By close of play 3 sides of the roof had been slated and a start was made on the rear.Here is a nosegay of photos from Jo.<br />
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At the Northern end of the site work was continuing on the Footbridge. Here the results of Peter K's efforts removing the rivets from the tower hoops. As you can see, no easy task and in the end the Mag. drill decided to give up the ghost - so near and yet so far. If anyone has a commercial 115v Mag. Drill they can lend us, or indeed sponsor us for a new one it would be much appreciated.<br />
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Roger Johnson, fresh from manning a polling booth set to in the span booth to remove further rust from the bottom joints.<br />
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The strong winds over the past 2 days have set us back a bit for one reason or another. Yesterday a gang were up at Wishaw doing their darnedest to get the remaining footbridge materials back from Wishaw. The culmination of this exercise was to retrieve the footbridge Stairs themselves - everything was lined up, crane in position and then the crane driver broke the bad news that the wind speed was too high to safely operate. 18m/s, The limit is 10m/s. To be fair the driver hung on until 17:15, but the wind wouldn't relent. So that was a real bummer(pardon my French). Everyone was so keen to get the last parts of the footbridge jigsaw down to Broadway - myself at the top of the list! Hey-ho there is always another day!<br />
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However that is not to diminish the successful work that was completed - two long hall trips with the GWR Truck. Cheers Roger!. The parts now reside by the Footbridge span shelter.<br />
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Ray Hughes who does shifts for us at Wishaw and Broadway is here chipping more paint off one of hoops. A great job Ray!<br />
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The first job of the day elsewhere was to install a new heavy duty manhole cover in the driveway - the old one had one to many brick lorries driven over it! JC has done many of these you know - I think he said he had built the M5 It was good job and I'm sure it was filled and levelled by the end of the day. Talking about filling in the old onsite sewer, now defuncted was filled in with ballast and concrete today - many arm stretching barrows of concrete were required.<br />
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In the same area the heavy gang finished off the extraction of the bricks from the old station foundations and barrowed the bricks away( I think that is now all of the bricks Robin!)<br />
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Finally to our current showpiece - the Signal Box.JC lead a team (John S, Paul, Tony, Peter Q) fitting the roof slates. I have to say I've looked forward to this day for some time!<br />
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Despite the wind everyone was pretty cheery at the thought of completing this major milestone.<br />
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Well it was an impossible ask to complete it, but a couple more shifts and we will be looking for ridge tiles!<br />
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Thanks to my BAG Committee Chums who spent the the morning locked in the Office with me, sorting out some urgent matters.<br />
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Finally Julie gives a smile to all comers - so please come along!<br />
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A great Saturday turnout with 19 volunteers doing their best to move the project forward.<br />
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The morning saw the job completed, which effectively meant the Signal Box is now totally waterproof.<br />
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The fitting of the cast iron guttering was the next job to be completed, with all of the correct parts finally to hand.<br />
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Here JC applies the mastic to the joints and the Box takes another step to completion.<br />
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A pallets worth of slates was lifted to the top of the scaffolding in anticipation of starting the fixing next week. Here the slates are stacked neatly around the edge of "top floor" by Phil B and Clive. Personally I cant wait to seem them in situ and the scaffolding removed.<br />
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Work was continuing at a pace at the northern end of the site on the footbridge. Peter K was wrestling the old rivets out of the roof support hoops, now removed from the old towers,<br />
Here Keith G is on the painstaking task of removing all of the old paint.<br />
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Similarly in the footbridge span shelter, Roger J was chipping the rust out of the joints with the Hilti. Both jobs set your wrists tingling!<br />
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Back on the old Station foundations Ron and Phil were extracting the last of bricks for future use.<br />
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I'm not sure that Robin was particularly pleased with their efforts - he feels obliged to clean them!<br />
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The efforts to keep the place neat and tidy continue. Here Jim H is defying gravity with his mower - stripes optional Jim!<br />
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An old friend is in the process of being removed from site this week. Our old friend "Dot" the Drott Shoveller is being put out to grass and restore by Chris Capaldi. I have a great affection for the old girl - we didn't use her much, but she was a symbol of progress 4 years ago and raised my spirits. It was a bit like having a Sherman Tank going up and down the track bed however!<br />
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-21471044656922002532015-04-29T22:13:00.000+01:002015-04-30T09:31:52.321+01:00Wednesday 29th April 2015 - A Very Successful Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Attention was then switched to fitting the roofing felt and the horizontal
battens to which the roofing tiles will be attached. Three out of the
four sides were completed and a start made on the fourth side. A plan to
have the correct corner sections couried to us, should enable both the
guttering and the roofing felt to be completed on Saturday, weather permitting
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Cheers Jim - maybe some more of Jim's photos in the morning!<br />
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John Blofield acted as host to a group from the Stephenson Locomotive Society yesterday. John reported:-<br />
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Amos and his party from the SLS spent 45 minutes at Broadway station over
lunchtime on Sunday, and were very interested in viewing the site and hearing
about how things are going. They had enjoyed a trip up from Cheltenham to
Toddington behind 4270, then had a trip on the narrow gauge railway, which I
think was probably the highlight of their day. They kindly left some money in
our donations pot to help us in our efforts.<br />
Attached is a photo of the visitors. </span></span><br />
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-76979554986129762532015-04-26T18:30:00.003+01:002015-04-26T21:58:18.546+01:00Wartime in the Cotswolds - BAG was there<u><b>Jo Roesen reports:</b></u><br />
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The Broadway area group set up a stand at Toddington during this famous festival, and your blogger and his wife manned it on the Sunday. The weather was kind, even warm on the Sunday afternoon, and there was plenty of opportunity to mooch around and hunt for some interesting snapshots. It was really amazing how many people managed 1940s dress, all very authentic and with plenty of atmosphere. Here are some impressions of the day:<br />
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A superb Citroen, with an open rear and accompanied by a picnic table and chairs. Sheer luxury!<br />
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A Lewis gun overlooks 4270, about to leave with a train for the south.<br />
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This sailor is contemplating a new car - the end of the war must be close. Bring the wife along, in case she doesn't like the colour though.<br />
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The sound of the 12 cylinder Merlin engine sent shivers down your spine.<br />
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Better get myself a nice calming cup of tea then. How many pence did you say that was? May I see your ration card for the sugar?<br />
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A snapshot of the BAG stand. We spread the good word about rebuilding Broadway station, recruited a 'Friend of Broadway station' and sold a few books - mostly to ourselves !<br />
We also met some interesting people - a lady booking clerk, who used to work at Winchcombe, Toddington and - Broadway. She lived in a caravan at Childswickham, and remembered Tilley lamps used to light the station. A Mr. Breeze was the stationmaster at Toddington, sometime before 1953.<br />
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We were pleased to chat to Chris Smith from the loco dept. He was a former BR fireman who used to work with Brian Parsons at Worcester. He knew John Diston, who took the famous photograph of The Cornishman heading south through Broadway, with the pigeon baskets on the left. Chris explained that he often helped release these pigeons, and that the baskets in the picture were empty, and being sent back to Birmingham.<br />
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The uniforms and 1940s clothing were most impressive.<br />
'Is that your tank out there, Lt Gruber?' ' Yes, I have just given it a little polish' <br />
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...but most impressive for your blogger was this M4 Sherman tank. How do people manage to get hold of these? We heard that it was a former target in a firing range, but you couldn't tell that at first sight, except that the sides were remarkably smooth - fillered and rubbed down, it seems, but a great effort! This tank was equipped with a radial aero engine, and if you want to know what that sounds like, you can watch it climb on to its tank transporter here:<br />
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At the end of the day, this convoy of tank and heavy US Army lorries crawled out of Toddington yard. It was an impressive sight, and the sound of the aero engine not quickly forgotten.<br />
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We watched 4270 leave one last time, and headed home. A great day, well organised and fun. Well done all!<br />
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A slightly more relaxed day today, with 11 volunteers on site, all tackling a variety of jobs. The Signal Box Team were having a day off today but will be back to tackle the guttering fitting on Wednesday - and of course the slates after that!<br />
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Keeping with the footbridge, north of the platforms, Roger J was continuing to chip off the worst of the rust with the Hilti along the footbridge span. Our neighbours are being particularly tolerant at the moment - apologies for the noise!<br />
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Whilst further north still Peter K was working away at removing the hoops from the footbridge towers. Peter had some success, managing to remove one side of the hoop. A slow but sure job.<br />
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I have been re wiring and re configuring the security cameras over the past few weeks with the help of Dave H.<br />
Here, Dave is rewiring the camera, which was subsequently remounted. They are all much more stable now!<br />
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Down in the driveway more topsoil is being spread by Jo and Dave H in order to grass seed the area.<br />
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You can see the finished result here. Dave B in the background, continued to tidy up the drive. He was able to ease his back by chatting to the many visitors that came today - Jim B did quite nicely at the Shed!<br />
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Talking of doing nicely John Blofield was over at the Wartime in the Cotswold Event, running a stand, and doing his best to to keep the Broadway Project in the public eye.<br />
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-46463946920197522182015-04-22T18:31:00.000+01:002015-04-22T18:31:01.111+01:00The slates arrive !<u><b>Jo Roesen reports:</b></u><br />
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Bill was indeed back in the saddle, much missed, but being Head of Department means meetings! He was called to Toddington today to attend a planning meeting about Broadway station, hence another post from yours truly.<br />
Work on the signal box continued in several areas, so a good day's progress can be reported. Graham spent the whole day painting in the soffit area, with several coats required and indeed mostly already applied. After the knotting fluid is painted on there is a coat of primer, followed by an undercoat, another undercoat and then a final coat of gloss. At the end of the day the fascia board was in gloss, while the woodwork below it was in the second undercoat. We had to keep the work site neat and, above all, dust free! In several areas the GWR two shades of stone could be clearly seen, even if some of it was still technically an undercoat.<br />
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Round the back Pete and JC were putting up the remaining decorative brackets, which JC has made. Don't they look good?<br />
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Pete was in a jovial mood as you can see. These are the last brackets, and up above Tony and John S completed the second half of the T & G boarding on the rear face of the roof, including the insulation sheets. This is now all completed.<br />
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Bill came up to see the progress on the roof for himself, and JC was proud to explain how the slates will sit when they go on in perhaps a week's time. Down below, Graham is already painting the brackets, fixed only moments ago. Still to go is the flashing around the chimney, the roofing felt and the battens for the slates. That should result in a near watertight roof then.</div>
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Later in the morning Jewson's delivered the actual slates themselves. There were three crates, with something over 1200 slates ready to go. We inspected a few, and the colour and form looked beautiful. We just need to let Graham finish his painting in a dust free atmosphere, and then we can get to work.</div>
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Working within the footprint of the old station building, a second gang continued today with the removal of the last reds still embedded in the foundations.</div>
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At the end of the day the 'archaeologists' looked pretty tired. Their site was in the full sun, and it became hot today. There comes a point when you have to sit back, look over your work, and have a cup of tea. <br />
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Up at the northern end of the site, Terry and Rod have been busy cleaning out a sizeable French drain, probably installed during the 'blanketting' sessions here in the late 1950s to improve the drainage in this clay cutting. Today, these drains are heavily overgrown, and Rod and Terry set out to clean one out. It proved to be rather bigger than they expected, being up to 6ft wide. In the picture on the right you can see the good job they made of it, and Martin here has started on the next drain along, extracting the pile of brushwood you can see in the foreground.</div>
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At the other end of the site, in the 'car park' field, Jim and Roger spent the day setting out the steel supports and half sleepers for the footbridge steps. Eventually this will be the compound where the steps are cleaned and repaired.<br />
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Work on the final piece of platform wall on 2c continues, but we are almost there! Here you can see Roger on the very last row of corbelling, working his way downhill to the very end. Peter H is behind the wall backing up, and making up the mixes for them both. The trusty wheelbarrow with the fist sized holes is back in service once again, you can't keep a good barrow down.<br />
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Next we should be slabbing along here. Currently our stock of slabs is almost exhausted, but we are on the trail of a potential supply which, after a recent site inspection in outer London, is looking promising. GWR of course !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-43205421595870614862015-04-19T07:18:00.002+01:002015-04-19T07:37:37.012+01:00 Saturday 18th April 2015 - Back in the Saddle!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You'll be aware that I've been hors de combat for a couple of weeks. Much improved, I got back in the saddle (albeit side saddle!) and did a few hours this morning. It was a joy to be back among the volunteers, to enjoy the sunshine, and most importantly see all of the great progress that's been made over recent weeks.<br />
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A big thank you to Jo for his blog reports while I was away - they were excellent!<br />
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A quick canter through today's activities:-<br />
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On the roof at the rear the final row of T&G was fitted. In addition, insulation sheets where laid over approx half of the roof.<br />
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Talking of another cheeky chappie our brick cleaning master Robin, was quite pleased (I think!) to have a pile of 400+ bricks to have a go at.<br />
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In addition the clearance of the old station foot print has revealed another 400+ bricks, all worthy of cleaning. Here Jim H has a chinwag with Keith G, who, together with Vic and Steve spent a very productive time extracting the brick treasure.<br />
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Work has started in earnest to refurbish the footbridge components, Here Peter K is cutting off the roof hoops from the old towers, which will then be used on the new towers. Getting the old rivets and bolts out is proving quite a task, and its a case of perseverance.<br />
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Similarly stripping out the tired metal is no small task either. Here Roger is using the Hilti to make the job that bit easier. There's a long way to go however!<br />
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The car park area has now been surrounded with Heras security fencing in anticipation of of the stairs being delivered. Neat job Jim!<br />
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Finally, we always try and keep the presentation of the Station Driveway neat and tidy so that it doesn't look too much like a building site.. Of course mother nature teases us by making the grass and weeds alike grow at double speed! Here Dave B is clearing the verge and further down John B is tidying up the entrance.<br />
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The visit to the foundry was an eye opener, and we were allowed to take some pictures:<br />
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The foundry we are using is the Swan Foundry at Banbury, a family business that has been going for a number of generations. They have an environmentally friendly electric oven that can melt 2 tons of iron in 40 minutes.<br />
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We saw that they readily cast lamp posts for corporations, and are currently working on items for the repair to parts of a pier in Brighton.<br />
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We were not surprised to find among this stock of recently cast items a number of GWR 'shirt button' type seat ends.<br />
Can Swan Foundry do anything else for us? Well, they could make us reproduction GWR platform lamp posts. These are very expensive second hand, and even more expensive from a specialist retailer. We are currently reflecting on a way to make use of their more affordable offer in a way that won't cost the railway any money. Watch this space if you are interested !<br />
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Nearly forgot what we came for ! Here are our new posts, together with the original. The circular base plates that fit underneath are on order with a local fabricator. Top right are bits of Brighton pier.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-29693109828271410732015-04-15T17:44:00.001+01:002015-04-15T18:42:49.923+01:00Summer is here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The forecast for today was beautiful, and the sun was out early. Twentyfive volunteers turned up today, a smashing turnout. Here's what we did:<br />
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Much activity was seen on the signal box once again. Two gangs were busy on it - one fixing the fascia boards, and one on the T & G at the rear. Here is Peter Q nailing on the last of the soffits at the rear - they needed a lot of measuring and cutting. <br />
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The fascia boards were carefully sawn to fit, using the angled circular saw. They were then nailed on, and in this picture John S is sinking the ovals with a drift. The resulting depressions were then filled in again. It's going to be such a lovely paint finish, pity that no one will be up here to inspect it once the scaffolding comes down again.<br />
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Graham D also came down today - he's a professional decorator, bets known to yours truly as the man who painted the white stripe along the platform edge. That makes such an impact.<br />
Here is Graham filling in the nail holes, and shortly after that he sanded the result down again, and went round both fascia and soffits and put on a dark grey undercoat. The final colour scheme up here will be light and dark stone, so don't worry about the dark grey you can see on the webcam<br />
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Work then continued on the T & G boards along the fourth, rear side. There are 21 rows to the side, and we started on row 10, finishing with the penultimate row for the day. Just the top one is left to go, that one is a bit more complicated as semi circular holes have to be cut out in the right place to cater for the cast iron ventilator tubes.<br />
As we went further and further up, space got a bit tight for Tony - and it wasn't just his stomach! - so he had to revert to working from the inside, with his hand sticking out.<br />
Here the last three rows mounted are being pressed into their grooves, then firmly nailed down.<br />
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At the end of the day this was the view along the rear:<br />
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Fascia board fitted and rubbed down, T & G boards all the way up to the top, bar the final row. Next time: the top row, and the insulation boards. That should make the box almost waterproof.<br />
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As we are nearing the moment when we cast the foundation slab, the order was given to retrieve the last original bricks remaining in the former station footprint.<br />
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A team of 6 started on this job, seen here at the gents' toilet end. Something under half of the former building was stripped down like this, and around 400 bricks retrieved. This will give the brick cleaners something to do again for a while. The gent's slab urinal was removed, and the fireplace in the former ladies' waiting room uncovered.<br />
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On the opposite platform Roger carried on with the spreading of topsoil, and alone he completed the future lawn area up to the grey electrical box. The first half of it was also seeded, until supplies of grass seed ran out. Now we need some gentle spring rain.<br />
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When the dumper has been serviced and repaired, we will continue with topsoil in the area of the former slip on 2c, which needs finishing off.<br />
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In this picture you can see the former slip and the new gabions. This area also needs seeding. In the foreground are Clive and Peter H working on the 2c slope. Clive added a row of corbelling bricks here, and Peter backed up the rear in plain bricks.<br />
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Now there is just the final row of corbelling to go, then slabs - if we can find some. Actually, we know of several locations, but actually getting your hands on them is the tricky bit.<br />
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Further up the site, Rod and Terry managed to clear the last obstruction in the drains, by the northenmost catch pit. The blockage isn't completely cleared, but they got a plunger through, so water is flowing.<br />
In the afternoon they addressed one of the French drains that are laid a 90 degrees to the track, channeling rainwater down the cutting sides. This was clogged up with greenery and rubbish, which they removed, thus making this open drain more efficient again.<br />
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In the 'car park' field, Jim, Roger, Chris and Dave erected some Heras fencing panels that we had. These will eventually seal off the future work site for the footbridge steps, which are due to be unloaded here.<br />
More fencing panels were expected late afternoon, and Roger kindly volunteered to stay with Jim, have a brew or two, and wait for these people to arrive. An earlier attempt to purchase such Heras panels failed, as we paid for the stuff, but the supplier never delivered, despite regular promises. Incredible. We got our money back from the bank, having used a credit card. It just goes to show that you must use a credit card when dealing with unknown suppliers for the first time.<br />
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On the footbridge we also received a visit from a potential shot blaster, who came to do a test on the centre span. This test proved useful for both parties, and we both learned something from the session.<br />
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Here's our end of the day shot - the signal box, with fascia boards. Can you imagine this scene with a train in the platform? The signal box and replica running in board really look the business, and will do a lot to rectify the impression given by some of the less historical looking structures on the railway. This is proof that we can do it, if we want to.<br />
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The day started off really rainy, perhaps putting off a number of people, as there were only 8 of us today. The Pershore auction certainly drew a number - I wonder what they bought? Any kit for us?<br />
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The site drainage was once again a matter of activity. The new catch pit covers are now ready, and during the morning a number of them at the southern end of the site were fitted. Each catch pit was also raised by one ring, to make them more obvious and limit the risk of a vehicle running over the top of them. We also put a cone on top! Can't go wrong now, can it?<br />
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A second group set off for the northern end of the site, and rodded through the last drains up to the fence. They report that there is only one obstruction left now, all the others are clear. <br />
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Here we see Ron with the rather satisfactory task of checking off the last catch pit on the list. Job done? Well, almost.<br />
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What now then? The dumper is currently garaged, pending a professional service which it is long due. On the other hand, there is a large pile of topsoil that is asking to be shifted, as it sits squarely on the trackbed. In the absence of mechanical assistance therefore, we threw manpower at the pile, and a fleet of barrows.<br />
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Here we see the catchpit team by the signal post, and the topsoil team in the background. That pile got a lot smaller today, but there is lots to go. We barrowed the stuff uphill on to the top of the middle of platform 2, then along a bit and tipped it over to the side, to make a nice level bit of topsoil, ready for seeding with grass. This has worked really well along the slope behind 1c, where there is a definite green fuzz appearing.<br />
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Here we see Roger levelling out the bumps, ready to make a nice flat lawn area here. We almost got to our intended target, the grey electrical box, beyond which there will be much digging and building for the platform 2 waiting room. In total, we covered about 20yds with topsoil. Unfortunately we could not seed it immediately, as it was too breezy and the seeds risked blowing away completely. Perhaps Wednesday will offer a calmer opportunity to do this.<br />
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A small gang also climbed up on the signal box. Their job today was to fill in the holes left by the nails used on the soffits, and also fill in the cracks from the knot holes in the bressumer beam.<br />
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Once all the holes and cracks had been filled, a coat of primer could be applied. This looked to be quite an enjoyable job up there in the sun, judging by the grin on Peter's face. The soffits, bressumer beam and sculpted brackets on the three sides were all put in primer.<br />
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On the subject of grins, how about this one from John S? He's a happy man, because today was the day the sample slates arrived. A great day !<br />
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For our readers, we have assembled a little test area to show how the slates will go on to the roof. The colour is good, and it matches well the sample ridge tiles that we have.<br />
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We will carry on with the T & G boarding on Wednesday next week. That should enable us to cover the roof completely. Then the insulation sheets on the rear, and we can start on the battens for the slates, now that we can see how they will sit. After fitting the guttering, to be made of genuine cast iron, the scaffolding can come down again.<br />
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Near the end of the day, here is our summary shot of the signal box. You can see the primer along the front, and Peter applying it to the southern end as well. The front also has the fascia board fitted.<br />
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To compare, readers might be interested in this picture from British Rail. It shows Shirley box as it was (now sadly demolished) and what we are trying to reproduce. We're not doing too badly, don't you think? Only the end window has been missed out. We have also fitted a real chimney, instead of the stove pipe here.The archive picture does show how much more squat the box will look, once the platform is carried over the front.<br />
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Now that we are rummaging around in the archives, what do you think of this picture of the Broadway station site, a few years after demolition:<br />
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Now compare the wheelbarrow on the right with the completely decrepid one in this picture below, taken only a few days ago. Can they be one and the same?<br />
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The archive picture is by Tony Harden, and was taken in the 1970s we think. Are we really using a 45 year old wheelbarrow? The tyre is a solid one, with a big hole in it. The sides are moth eaten, and you can stick your fist through them. Your blogger has discreetly taken it to the scrap pile on a number of occasions, but it is so useful that it keeps reappearing.... maybe there is a wheelbarrow preservation society out there?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-19600168850073706342015-04-08T18:05:00.000+01:002015-04-08T18:05:09.340+01:00It's hot !<u><b>Jo Roesen reports: </b></u><br />
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Summer is back - we had a hot day today, with 18 degrees C reached at the end of the afternoon. There was a good crowd of volunteers, which quickly spread out along the site, now that we are looking towards our northern boundary and the brick laying is coming to a close.<br />
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The first picture is to keep a promise: the chimney pot went up today, and you had to be there early to see it go up (before 8 am.....).<br />
Here is Bob finishing off the bed of sharp sand mortar underneath which holds it in place. The pot sits over the extension of the last liner tube. A neat job there, Bob!<br />
Bob had to hurry up, because as he put the finishing touch to the chimney, the scaffolders arrived to take down the scaffolding extension. And you don't argue with scaffolders ! Within minutes the platform was down again, and the roof was free for the boarding to continue to the fourth and final side.<br />
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Putting on the rear was quite tricky. The roof is longer than the T & G boards, so you have to consider where to put in the join. It also has to fit around the chimney and you start at the top, then work downwards, then further up.<br />
Here the team is measuring up the first two boards, making sure they are level and perfectly in line. You might say who worries, with all the insulation and slates on top you won't see the boarding, but in fact you will, as the boarding and rafters will be very visible from underneath, and this is a feature of the GWR type 7 signal box that we are building.<br />
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Once you have three boards up, you can squeeze them together using the vices to the left and right of Tony here, and once all the tongues are in their grooves, you can nail down the set.<br />
Behind Tony is the lovely view you get from up here, with the pastures of the Vale in the foreground and Breedon Hill in the background. Tony doesn't have time for that though, there is a job to do.<br />
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There were no fewer than 8 volunteers on the box today, so we split into two teams. The first, under the leadership of John S, started placing the boarding while the second, led by Peter Q in the picture here, finished off the soffits, which was a complicated job.<br />
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The carefully fitted and much laughed about noggins proved to be not perfectly in line, and there was much sawing and hammering to get a straight surface to which the suspended boarding could be attached. Eventually a strip had to be sawn off the outer board, and this was the signal for an interruption in the power supply, caused by rewiring going on elsewhere on the site. There was nothing for it but to grab a hand saw and get going. Poor old Peter got there in the end!<br />
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This photograph shows both teams at work, with the newly fitted rear soffits in the foreground. The new chimney and its pot, still in wet mortar, overlook the scene.<br />
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Once the boards had been sawn to size, they had to be nailed on from underneath. So this was no wind up, nailing upside down! We really did it. The nails are oval in shape, and bend over easily, but after much patience the soffits are now all up. The fascia boards in front will be next.<br />
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The boarding team got quite a long way, with 9 of the 21 rows fitted over the whole width of the back of the roof. One more day should see this through, then it's the final fitting of insulation sheets here.<br />
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We have to wait with the battens and felt until we know exactly what size the slates are. <br />
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Much activity also too place elsewhere on the station site. Vic, bolstered by the congratulations received for his flower bed, was seen tending to the flowers and spraying nettles on the drive, while Mike was painting the new electrical cupboards on 1c, as well as finishing off the new catch pit covers that he and Pete have made. The grass we have sown along the back of 1c is just starting to come through; this will look great.<br />
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Pete with the hoist came to fit further wiring to the telephone kiosk, which is turning into something of a sub station for plugs, lighting and camera controls.<br />
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Chris and David scoured the site for more debris to burn, while Clive tended a fire which gratefully received it. Brian came to cut more stumps down to size, but was hampered by a hot running chainsaw, which was probably damaged when the ash stump was removed from the catch pit rings last week.<br />
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Jim received representatives from a firm of shot blasters in order to configure a quote for the footbridge centre span. Over lunch he and Chris gave us an interesting lecture on the dangers of lead in old paint, and how to avoid them.<br />
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The work on the drains continued today; this is not a five minute job. A number of blockages were cleared using the corkscrew attachment on the rods, and the debris retrieved with the 'D' shaped scraper. The culprit turned out to be the crossbar from a telegraph pole! Hard to believe how this came to be underground in the middle of a 9 inch drain pipe.<br />
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Some blockages were very persistent. What now? Rod and Terry are not easily beaten and here we see them in the first stages of digging out one such blockage, by lifting out the concrete blocks installed above the drain pipe. This was pretty hard work, but by means of this piece of rope and a bar they managed to lift out this first, rather reluctant block.<br />
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Meanwhile, Ron and Dave finished off the catch pits that had been successfully reconstructed and rodded through to the next. At Broadway we have a large pile of legacy signalling troughing which was stored here a number of years ago. Now finally we were able to make use of the lids, which we see here being stacked on a sack truck.. In the background you can see a completed and covered catch pit, with a brick above it denoting its number.<br />
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Here is one of the formerly buried catch pits, being fitted with lids from the troughing to make them safe and to prevent further ingress of ballast and other undesirables. <br />
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At the end of 2c there is still a remainder of brick laying to be done. The wall is now up, but the three rows of corbelling still need to go on to the final piece, being the slope down to the trackbed.<br />
Here we see Roger B setting out the job, with individual bricks at intervals along a line. Platform side is Peter (another campanologist....) who is backing up the first row that Roger is laying. Finally we can see Keith on the right, who had the job of selecting the best quality bricks for the job. They all come from Avonmouth, and are thus of Midland origin. Oh ! We shall try to overlook that...<br />
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Although several stalwarts were away on grandchildren duty, a respectable gang of 10 spread out across the site today, and got busy with several activities.<br />
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The day started a bit grim, with a steady drizzle and a northerly wind making things just that little bit unpleasant up on the box. John S and your blogger decided that the lee face of the box would be the warmest place to address, so we sheltered on the south side of the roof and cut insulation boards to size.<br />
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It didn't take very long, and we had this the second side of the roof covered and battened up. The aluminium faced boards are not exactly waterproof, but with these and the boarding underneath, less and less rain will be getting through now. The roofing felt is the next layer we think, and we have identified a source of acceptable slates. Believe it or not, this was a direct consequence of a potential volunteer speaking to us at the recruitment fair at Toddington! You never know how someone may turn out to be useful.<br />
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After a while Peter K dropped in and we quickly made use of him as a painter:<br />
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Here he is, putting a coat of knot sealant on the bressumer beam and soffit boards. You probably wouldn't notice whether the knots had been sealed from down on the platform, but that's how we are - we like to do a nice job.<br />
Peter didn't stay long. He had a funeral to go to - we commiserated, but it turned out that he was only there to ring the bells. Bit of a campanologist mafia, up there on the box - John S is a ringer too, and even yours truly had a go at the sally in his teenage years.<br />
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As it continued to drizzle, we wisely decided that this would be a good moment for a brew.When we came out again it was dry - exactly as per plan - and we attacked the northern side of the roof. From down by the viewing platform, it now looks as if the roof is all covered up, but as you can see the rear is still quite open. This is because we have to wait with this part of the T & G boards until the scaffolding is down again. That should be possible after Wednesday, when the chimney pot is due to go on.<br />
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Further up the site a jolly fire blazed, and Clive was seen scurrying about the site with a wheelbarrow, looking for stuff to tidy up and burn. Mostly this was dead ivy, blown off the trees by recent high winds.<br />
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In the last post we mentioned a list of catch pits at the northern end. Here is a picture of it that you might find interesting. All the pits north of the platforms, up to Springfield lane bridge, are listed with their condition, and any blockages noted. A pencil is included for updates ! Methodical, aren't we.<br />
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Today Rod and Ron carried on with the catch pits. What a lot of work that has been. Filled in, wrecked by diggers, trees growing up out of them, even completely buried. But we are dealing with them one by one. Andy P brought round a large supply of new ring segments, and with these the pits were reconstructed and also raised, so that they no longer self fill with ballast and other stuff that gets pushed around the site. Although some are reputed to be blocked, it did appear to yours truly that the water was flowing between at least a number of them, which is very satisfying.<br />
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Now, looking at Ron's bucket you would say, Dear Ron, you won't scoop much water out with that ! But this bottomless bucket was part of a cunning plan to mend a broken pipe end at the bottom of it - it made a perfect mould. Neat !<br />
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Here's the proper way to use a bucket. Ron was in his wellies, and a lot of water was removed like this - it was all over the trackbed! Feels like a lot of effort went into that.<br />
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At the end of the day, Ron has back filled his hole, and ponders how far the railway will go - will we get to Honeybourne? Stratford perhaps?<br />
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Work also proceeded on the footbridge towers. Here are Jim and Roger with a set of large spanners, taking out the old bolts that hold the hoops on. The plan is to save the hoops, but have the very moth eaten and gas axed towers replaced by new.<br />
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Meetings are being held with shot blasters and fabricators to get good quotes for the repair work.<br />
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We are still waiting for the steps to arrive. <br />
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Making good use of the shelter over the centre span is Robin. Here we see him painting the new covers for the centre drain catch pits. Mike has manufactured these. The 'old' ones - only about 2 years old in fact - have been repeatedly run over by visiting vehicles, and recently twice in the same week! Culprits were the lorry and trailer delivering the blocks for the new station building, and then again by the van servicing our portaloo - the normal driver, who knows us well, being on holiday. Now the replacement driver knows us too....<br />
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Not so exciting as say the signal box, OK, but we would just like to show you the result of Vic's tireless behind the scenes efforts on the flower bed opposite the station site. This used to be a mass of brambles and ivy, full of discarded lager cans. Now look at it! A mass of flowers, framed by Cotswold stone. Excellent work, Vic !<br />
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Finally, a last look at the box. This picture, taken around lunch time, shows John S right at the top, hammering the last nails into the battens holding down the new insulation boards. The roof almost looks finished - that's why we posted the picture of the big hole in the back. Some way to go on the roof yet, but we are making steady progress.<br />
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Happy Easter to all our readers - hope you find a big Easter egg at the bottom of your bed tomorrow morning :-)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-41802952110794517902015-04-01T18:33:00.002+01:002015-04-01T20:29:11.315+01:00Highest, and lowest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was a breezy day today, cold and with showers. A typical spring day then ! We gained new highs and lows today - Bob put the final course of bricks on the signal box chimney, and Rod almost out of sight, was on his knees inside a blocked drainage chamber down on the trackbed. You can't get lower than that.<br />
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First the news from the box:<br />
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A good sized gang was up on the box, and they were all busy. The first job was to get the soffits fitted to the bottoms of the noggins. This required special nails, so called headless ovals, and they had to be hammered in upside down. Another wind up, surely? But no, part of the strange language of carpenters.<br />
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Once the soffits were in, John got out the eave brackets, special wooden decorative brackets that he made up almost a year ago, and which have been burning a hole in the back of the shed, eager to be fitted. Today was the day, at last. They connect the bressumer beam with the underside of the soffits.<br />
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At the end of the day, they were on the three sides to which we had added the T & G boards, i.e. the front and two ends. The rear is awaiting removal of the chimney scaffolding, so that the T & G boards can be mounted, starting on the upper side of the chimney. The picture above shows what the eave brackets look lik, once up. Aren't they lovely?<br />
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Next came the fascia boards. Note the piece of wood lying on the roof - this is a jig that was made up to imitate the roof line, so that the fascia board can be fitted at the correct height to meet it exactly.<br />
Pete seems to have a word to say to the photographer... possibly he was expected to hold the other end of the board. Calm down, Pete, it just takes a second, and it's for our readers.<br />
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With a fascia board mounted along the front, there was a call to bring up some insulation boards that were stacked in the locking room. This is progress indeed !<br />
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These boards are quite large, and it was quite windy... handing them up from the ground floor to the second was an interesting manoeuvre, as the wind had other ideas to ours. But we got them on - see JC driving home the three inch flatheads to keep them down on the T & G boards. We wondered how the insulation was going to interact with the battens for the slates, but that was a secret revealed only at the last minute.<br />
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Seen from underneath, this view shows the roof continuing to take shape as the first sheets on insulation go on.<br />
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Here's the view near the end of the day, as the last sheet on the front is made ready for fitting. Note the vertical battens already nailed through the sheets on the right. To these will be added horizontal battens, and these will hold the slates. Aha! A layer of roofing felt will also go in between.<br />
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The slates still have to be sourced - a question of price and quality. Cheap ones are cheap, but don't last long. Good quality ones cost more.... the decision still has to be made.<br />
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If you look at the above picture more closely, you can just make out Bob behind the apex of the roof - he has reached the highest point so far! Not an enviable place to be today though, as it was very cold in the wind, which explains why there was so much interest in working around the NE corner of the roof - the wind was south-westerly !<br />
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Here we see Bob fitting the last blue on the top of the chimney. He laid three courses there today, quite a fiddly job, as the middle course is slightly wider to guide the rain away from the side of the chimney below.<br />
At the end of the day Bob had added another segment of chimney liner, and filled in the void around it with commons. The chimney pot that we have will fit over the part of the liner that now sticks out, and will be secured by a mound of concrete that will be moulded over the top of the chimney.<br />
Looking down the chimney now, it's quite a long tube downwards with two curves, until you get to the fireplace. It's sort of tempting to roll a tennis ball down it, but Bob confessed that he had already beaten us to it, by dropping his trowel down the hole.<br />
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So far for the signal box. A team will return on Saturday to continue with insulation and fascia boards. The chimney pot itself will be fitted next Wednesday, which will be a memorable occasion. The Broadway Station Blog will be there!<br />
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Of course the station isn't just about the signal box, and there were several other centres of activity in progress.<br />
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Vic has been wheeling his barrow back and forth between the 'car park' field and the station site. It's quite a long way, and mostly uphill. Contents of the barrow have included Cotswold stone rocks for the wall opposite the station, earth to tidy up the new green fence behind the future site of the new information office. and today, primroses from the embankment there, which you can see him planting here behind platform 2. He is being assisted by Chris and David, a father and son team that spent the day tidying up the site of the wreckage of litter and broken branches resulting from yesterday's high winds. They filled up a couple of dumpy bags (at least) which went down to the north end of the site, where a gang was burning the remaining brash from the embankment clearance.<br />
Brian has now ceased clearing (bird nesting having started) and spent the day cutting remaining stumps down to ground level, so that next year's regrowth can more easily be cleared with a brush cutter.<br />
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Preparations for the station build continue, and today a contractor was hired in to investigate and clear the deep drain that is situated immediately south of the former southern end of the old station building. This drain has to be in a working condition to accept the waste from our extended toilet facilities in the new station.<br />
The contractor was equipped with a camera and TV screen, seen here above the reel, and a high pressure hose to clear away and debris and blockages. Both were in use!<br />
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So what's down this hole then? Well, this is what we wanted to know as well. For a start, it was very deep, a good 10 feet. Several waste drains fed into it, not only from the wreckage of the station. The drains were cleared of silt and debris, and investigated for origin, destination and integrity.<br />
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Further up the site a large team was continuing with the investigation and clearance of the trackbed side drains and catch pits. The intention is to clear our drainage system out fully and back into working condition. Several of the catch pits are completely buried and were cleared earlier. Today Andy P brought down more rings to rebuild the buried catch pits, and a number of underground pipes between them were rodded, investigated and cleared. One or two seem completely blocked, and need TV investigation for the cause.<br />
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In the picture above, Rod and Terry are removing one of the rings in situ to get at an ash tree stump that has taken up residence between two rings. Brian is waiting with the chain saw to cut it out, a tricky operation as concrete and ballast are very close.<br />
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Eventually Rod had to get on to his hands and knees to get to the lowest point - briefly taking off his hard hat to get in there - and a large team is standing by with useful advice... we have a chart with all the pits, their liaisons underground, and we check these off as they are investigated and cleared, or indeed not yet if properly blocked. Very methodical.<br />
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Our last picture for the day shows what Rod has achieved down there on his hands and knees - a bucket full of sediment and smelly slop. This slippery mess is 'spooned' into the bucket with a child's spade (in the corner), the only thing that fits down this narrow space, and the full bucket is then handed up to Terry for disposal a bit further along.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Just a quick side drain report. Steve B, Keith and Ron
rodded drains 1-12 on both sides today and got the 6 inch plunger through most,
a brilliant effort. There are 3 or 4 blockages which need further investigation
which have been marked on Jim's plan. Terry and I worked on no 10 catchpit
building up, backfilling and moving all the remaining spoil to support the
embankment. We then moved on to no11 and with chainsaw Brian's help managed to
get as much of the tree root out as possible. We then rebuilt the chamber from
the bottom and backfilled again to support the embankment. We had some help
from Ian later on, I apologies if I've missed any other helpers. The pictures
show the catchpits at end of play; perhaps not quite the right word !! Cheers
Rod</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">The date has been fixed, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April, and
final details are being arranged for 2015's nostalgic 1940s weekend at the
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. Step back in time, pack up
your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Travel this beautiful heritage line between Cheltenham Race Course
Station and Toddington, stopping at Gotherington and Winchcombe on steam hauled
trains, (air raids permitting).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Attractions include military and civilian re-enactors, military
camps, ARP post, children's activities, air raid experience, a Sherman tank and
1940s style entertainment throughout the day.
All stations have catering and toilet facilities and there's the Flag
and Whistle cafe at Toddington. The Narrow Gauge Railway will be running on
both days at no extra charge. Dress in
1940s period costume or come as you are.
There will be a Saturday evening big band dance at Toddington Station,
at extra cost, with all your favourite 1940s tunes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">On Sunday there will be the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Spitfire fly past (subject to weather etc.)</span></div>
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The original posts from Broadway Station were dug up several years ago when we were recovering bricks from the old site. Jo Roesen in his pursuit of authenticity has taken them under his wing and has arranged for them to be transformed!<br />
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pictures of the two original Broadway crowd barrier posts undergoing treatment
at the shotblaster's in Northwick Park.</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">They will look magnificent, and
contribute to an authentic GWR booking hall.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">The additional two replicas are with the
foundry, and are expected to be ready later this week. I will go over and
pick them up, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">Now we need to find someone who can make
us the hardwood barriers across the top ! I have pictures of what they should
look like, should anyone be able to help.</span></div>
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Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01318720512739905663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-48114575313304605282015-03-28T21:03:00.002+00:002015-03-29T08:57:50.832+01:00Saturday 28th March 2015 A Great Day's Work!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There were 18 of us on site today and 3 main tasks in progress - and a few others here and there! The wind (gales) where particularly troublesome, and brought in an hours cold rain at lunchtime. However volunteering on the railway is not for the faint hearted and so work proceeded as planned!<br />
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Over on the Cotswold side another unearthed catch pit has a tree neatly growing in it. Its an ideal way to blunt a chainsaw!<br />
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However Any P and his chum Stuart were with us today and had a blunt chainsaw specifically for the task!. In fact he has most things on his wagon now. His great work for the Railway over the past couple of years has allowed him to build up a stock of the best equipment for the job.<br />
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On to other things. Staying northward for the next report - Steve moved on to bringing the wood debris down from the banks of the cutting. It was remarkable how the task that would have taken many days, by hand was completed in a relatively few hours.<br />
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Here comes the next load neatly trapped in front of the digger. Thanks Steve and all the volunteers who did their best to avoid the smoke whist keeping the fire going.<br />
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Having been doing this Volunteering lark for a while, I can quickly tell when moods are high and thoughts are positive. Today was such a day and the 22 volunteers gave of their best to keep the Broadway show on the road.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Just a brief update on progress. Another magnificent
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Nineteen of the twenty four pits have been cleaned out and additional
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Just a few lines to illustrate our participation in the volunteer recruitment fair this weekend. The Broadway Area Group had a stand both days, and met many interesting people. It's not just the potential volunteers you meet, but useful contacts from various industries, as well as volunteers from other departments that you have been meaning to ask something. So a fruitful day all round, and Recruitment Director Philip Young was in high spirits at the end of the weekend; the results were very pleasing, we heard.<br />
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We didn't of course see a tally for the two days, but a look at the car park at lunchtime already gave you an idea that there were plenty of people about. Poor old P & O had to fight her way into a spot to be seen. But what a magnificent beast !<br />
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BAG's little stand was inside the diesel shed at the far end. Here is Paul giving an outline of our activities and volunteer opportunities, while in the background Mrs. Blogger is singing the praises of booking clerks. Indeed, while people often approached our stand to ask about Broadway, we found ourselves acting as ambassador for any part of the railway, depending on the strengths and preferences of the people we spoke to.<br />
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It was cold in the diesel shed (5 degrees first thing this morning) but after a while a class 37 was drawn outside, and we warmed up a bit as the sun began to shine in.<br />
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Paul was very enthusiastic, and even tried to recruit people from other GWSR departments! That's Chris, from the Friends of Toddington you're trying to convert there! Hold on there, Paul.<br />
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Among the people we met today were a NR manager, someone with electrical skills, someone in the building trade who advised us about slates, a metallurgist with experience of corrosion, and a retiring NR signalman who would like to work at Broadway. Useful contacts there, and several new volunteers for us with skills.<br />
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Towards the end of the day we were treated to a fine departure by Dinmore Manor. An excellent day for us all.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-56826906129863255672015-03-21T19:30:00.000+00:002015-03-21T23:02:10.105+00:00Dizzy heights are reached<u><b>Jo Roesen reports:</b></u><br />
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A fine but breezy day today saw the volunteers split into three groups:<br />
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- A small group went to the recruitment fait at Toddington, to man the Broadway stand. We will be there again tomorrow, so do come along if you've ever wondered about joining the railway. This is your chance to check us out.<br />
- A second group spent the day on the box, busy with the T&G boarding on the roof. This included your blogger, so that's why there are several photos of this activity.<br />
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In the previous session, the first 4 boards went up on the front. Today we continued this, with Tony and John S doing the sawing and hammering.<br />
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Here is a close up of Tony and John at work. The boards are cut to size, then pushed down into the grooves with the little vices you can see in the picture.<br />
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As the number of boards in position increased, work had to be switched from the outside to the inside. Here is Tony emerging near the top - you get a great view from up here. Can you see me, mother?<br />
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The best bit of the day (for your blogger at least) was the moment when we were able to add a genuine piece of GWR railwayana, while at the same time reaching the highest position to date on the box! This is one of two GWR ventilator tubes, originally from Exminster box. They are made of cast iron, and clamp around the board running along the apex of the roof. Over the top goes a zinc ventilator, while underneath is a funnel, whose purpose is to ventilate the fumes from the oil lamp underneath that lit the box. Luckily we have a photograph of Shirley box in the cabin, which allowed us to pinpoint their required location exactly. Over tea, of course.<br />
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As we got near the apex of the roof, John and Tony had to switch position to the other side, and work from above. On the right is the stub of the chimney which is awaiting a scaffolding lift, due next Wednesday. This should then allow us to finish the brickwork on the chimney, remove the scaffolding just lifted, and finish off the boarding on the rear.<br />
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This is as high as we got today - two boards short of the top. All the boards are securely nailed down, giving a very robust structure. A layer of insulation is next, followed by the battens and the slates. We have not yet sourced these. In the background is the site for the station building.<br />
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- A third group today worked at the other end of the site, near the Springfield Lane overbridge. On Wednesday work had started here in clearing out the drainage inspection pits, and this work, together with further burning of brash, continued with some success today. In the morning we were delighted to see Andy P from the drainage gang with the B&S van filled with concrete rings to extend the height of the pits.<br />
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The timing could not have been better, as our pits had been filling with all sorts of rubble due to their insufficient height above ground. Thanks, Andy !<br />
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On the drainage work at the north end of the site, this report from Jim H:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Just a few details from the drain
clearing efforts earlier today. Initially Robin and I wheeled the 330
metres from the bottom of the platform ramps to the northern boundary
fence, and have recorded the actual or approximate positions of the 12
pairs of catch pits. These have all been numbered.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Rod,
Steve, Clive, Keith G and our visiting experts from Lineside Drainage,
Andy P and Stewart then spent a very tiring day digging out the pits
starting at the northern end. It was amazing to see a pit filled to the
top at the start of the day with stones, ballast and vegetation, which
when removed, then suddenly filled up to a depth of about a foot with
water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Clive
also managed with Robin's assistance to get a bonfire going and it was
also necessary to move two pallets loaded with S & T concrete
troughs and lids to gain access to one of the pits. By the end of the
day nearly half of the catch pits had been cleared out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Andy
and Stewart then delivered and fitted new drainage rings to seven catch
pits. All those catch pits which have been cleared have been fitted
with temporary lids. There remain five locations where a mini digger
will be required to excavate spoil in order to find the missing pits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Dave
B went off to the north to find out where the water will go to once the
centre drain is connected in. The bad news is that there are another
twelve pairs of manholes to clear up to the by-pass bridge and the
nearly as many again to where the drains appear to leave the track bed.
None of this is on land owned by the GWSR. So an interesting problem
for the future.</span></div>
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Here are the pictures that go with Jim's report. This first one is of a trial dig to find one of the catch pits. It's not just a question of emptying the pit of a few shovels of ballast. Sometimes they have been completely filled in, or even buried and lost from sight, such as here. We can only guess its location by measuring a standard distance from the last one.<br />
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Here are Rod and Stewart and with the classic tools for clearing a pit - a shovel, and a bar. These pits can be quite deep, and in the bottom there is a sump that is precisely as deep as the top of your wellingtons. You move, they fill.<br />
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Finally, a look at the signal box at the end of the day - T&G boarding almost up to the top, and two ventilator tubes fitted. Next time, we shall address the ends (depending on the then prevailing wind, it will be either the northern or the southern one, it is very windy up there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246842529969806828.post-84942711230483576452015-03-19T21:39:00.001+00:002015-03-20T07:41:37.082+00:0040,000+<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By coincidence that's the number by which our budget was reduced this year to accommodate other urgent investments on the Railway. Somehow we need to make up this shortfall, if we are to keep on track with our project and see steam back in Broadway by 2018. I know that many of the loyal followers have already shown their enthusiasm for the project by making donations or buying shares, and its difficult to call on the same generous people again for help. But please help us if you can - help us put a £ sign in front of the last 30 days statistic. </div>
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