Away this weekend attending my Granddaughter 1st Birthday party - what a glorious way to spend ones time, if not at the railway.
Jo did his stuff and here is his report:-
Jo did his stuff and here is his report:-
A cold but
bright day – the opening temperature was 1.5 degrees C. Seven people on site
today, with yourself and John C much regretted.
With 2
people on brick cleaning (Robin and Peter K) three more decided to crank up the
dumper and find rubble to put behind platform 2b. Having vainly scoured the
brick cleaning area for broken bricks, we eventually went down to the Mythe
pile and brought 3 loads back. Doesn’t sound so much, but all the little bits
of brick were loaded by hand, and when we got to 2B, they had to be unloaded by
hand as well, as we can not get the dumper behind the platform wall at the
moment.
Brian T, Keith G, Peter K and yours truly did the honours here. Later
we fetched a load of Cotswold stone for Vic, who was cleaning up the flower
bed, and then we resupplied the brick layers with two dumper loads of blues,
which we piled up by the wall and covered with sheeting, so that they will be
dry for next Wednesday. After taking Vic’s ‘spoils’ down to the bonfire
site, we engaged in a last job which was to bring a small supply of plinth
headers to the signal box site, where we stored them inside the ‘Wigwam‘ to
keep them dry.
John B was
about too. He removed one of the banners from the bridge, repaired a fence at
Childswickham road, and made Marguerite’s shed watertight again. Much hammering
from the rooftop! I heard that Marguerite did quite well today, and a generous
benefactor acquired one of the big prints that were donated to us. Great stuff,
and thank you !
Peter K
brought back one of the signal box ventilators, and has done a great job
repairing the split that was in the base. He has now taken the other back, also
for repair. I have enquired with Andrew whether we are not missing a piece from
the ventilators – having seen one at Winchcombe box in situ, I think there may
be a third piece that guides the air around the the wooden beam that runs along
the apex of the roof.
A final cup
of tea at dusk rounded off a great day.
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