The weather forecasters didn't quite get it right today - a fair old storm blew through at lunchtime and gave everyone a soaking, but otherwise it was a bright day. There were 27 Volunteers on site - a great turnout!
There were 3 main activities on the go. Firstly block laying continued on Platform 2C.
Here is Roger B's detailed report on the days activities:-
The Weather Man got it wrong !.
Finally a big thank's to our Senior Muck Man, Paul Carter who provided us with excellent quality mortar all day and also entertained us with his prolific banter!, Regards Roger
The next big event at Broadway will be the arrival of the centre span of the footbridge. This is to be temporarily placed on platform 2B for refurbishment. The Span is 40 feet in length and weighs something over 8 tonnes.Jim H is masterminding the project has been busy setting up sleepers to rest it on and a massive shelter for ongoing work.
Jim also took time out today to inform the neighbours of the potential for disruption as a result of the heavy duty transport required to bring the span in. The disruption should be minimal and of short duration - please bear with us.
On the north west embankment 9 volunteers continued to cut back the vegetation on the embankment. Of course its a glorious excuse for a bonfire, should we need one!
A variety of other tasks happened today, small in themselves but vital to the overall project progress.
I chaired a meeting of our Site Health and Safety Committee and a signal box construction review meeting. Work will continue at a pace on the Signal Box next Wednesday.
There were 3 main activities on the go. Firstly block laying continued on Platform 2C.
Here is Roger B's detailed report on the days activities:-
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| Another block in the wall.... |
Apart from a Deluge at Lunch Time we had glorious weather
for Block Laying.
The Team Terry, Keith, Tony, Clive and yours truly
managed to lay 160 metric blocks on Platform 2c today.
The first course of Blocks is complete and over half of
the 2nd course is also finished.
We should now be in a position to commence Brick Laying
next Wednesday.
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| Paul worked tirelessly on producing the "muck".. |
Finally a big thank's to our Senior Muck Man, Paul Carter who provided us with excellent quality mortar all day and also entertained us with his prolific banter!, Regards Roger
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| Jim weighs up the alignment of the sleepers |
The next big event at Broadway will be the arrival of the centre span of the footbridge. This is to be temporarily placed on platform 2B for refurbishment. The Span is 40 feet in length and weighs something over 8 tonnes.Jim H is masterminding the project has been busy setting up sleepers to rest it on and a massive shelter for ongoing work.
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| Tried cutting a sleeper in half? they're surprising tough... |
Jim also took time out today to inform the neighbours of the potential for disruption as a result of the heavy duty transport required to bring the span in. The disruption should be minimal and of short duration - please bear with us.
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| What a great effort going on here...... |
On the north west embankment 9 volunteers continued to cut back the vegetation on the embankment. Of course its a glorious excuse for a bonfire, should we need one!
A variety of other tasks happened today, small in themselves but vital to the overall project progress.
I chaired a meeting of our Site Health and Safety Committee and a signal box construction review meeting. Work will continue at a pace on the Signal Box next Wednesday.
6 comments:
Clearly there will never be trouble on the GWSR with 'leaves on the line'. Ian Walmsley of Modern Railways will be proud of you all as he says NR just needs a bunch of people with chain saws.
Is there a problem with the signal box floor as it seems visible progress from the camera has stopped.
Last sentence says that work will continue on Wednesday. Aaron
If I am not mistaken, this time last year the monthly viewing fugures were around 35/36 thousand. Now they are 41. Is my memory correct? If so this is a testament to how darn good this blog is.
PiPi
Cheers! I do my best to keep it up to the minute and interesting. This is helped tremendously by Jo and his camera work. Onwards to 45000!
Sat on the train yesterday going from Salisbury to Bristol and passed through Bradford upon Avon, they have a very nice footbridge which doesn't look dissimilar to yours as it is (was) a GWR station. http://www.networkrail.co.uk/news/2013/june/The-Grade-2-listed-Bradford-on-Avon-station-is-being-refurbished/
or
http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/Gallery/Bradford-on-Avon-station-footbridge-1b56.aspx
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