Saturday 6th October - Apres Moi, Le Deluge!

A nasty surprise awaited us on arrival today - most of the torrential rain from the previous night seemed to be resting in the "trough" where the Platform 2 footings were.

 However we had an army of 12 volunteers on site and we set to at putting some extra drainage across the trackbed into the centre drain.

This brought into focus again the need to have the centre drain running freely and having cleared the flooding problem Roger  Johnson  and John Simms set to at rodding through  the full length of the drain, clearing out the debris from the catch pits as they went.

 It was a time consuming job, but by the end of the day they had the drains flowing freely down into the culvert. A top class job.

The drains were effective enough that Clive, Bob and Andy were able to set to after lunch and lay forty plus blocks on Platform 2. Here we see the results at the end of the day. Its very satisfying to deal with a problem and then get back on track!

On other fronts Vic and John B got a bonfire going and, with some hinderence from myself,  were able to burn all of the cut vegetation from the clearance of the northwest embankment by the bridge.

Also Dave Bowie was able to erect the permissive footpath signs identifying the footpath along the planned car park area. I am hoping that these will stand the test of the vandal who has destroyed previous attempts at marking out the footpath.

Brick cleaning continued with Robin and Mike - there is no shortage of bricks to go at!

Last but not least Jim H started the task of making some new  temporary catch-pit covers, which I hope will stand the test of time until the railway opens.