Anniversary Time

 Monday 26th October 2020

Two volunteers Tony and Vic had celebration time over the weekend (wedding anniversary and a birthday) so there was that bit of celebratory cake and the morning break.

Cleaning Up.

Ron and Vic set to sweeping and barrow loading leaves and pine needles from the platform and driveway.

Alterations

Dave and Brian were requested to swap the door hinges on a fridge and take preventive measures to stop debris falling into a drain.

Painting

Mike and Ian were swinging the brush today. Mike on the spear fencing and Ian coating another gate.

Mowing

Pat was out with his mower trimming the grass until the exhaust fell off. Tony, Dave and Brian were trying to dismantle the machine, so on Wednesday we will see if they were successful.

Wednesday 28th October.

Well it would appear from info given that the lads were successful with the exhaust repair. Pat then took the beast home, for like F1 cars, it was being given upgrades. So we will see Pat roaring around the circuit possibly next week.

Spear fencing

Tony and the gang, Terry, Rod, Keith, Peter K and painters Mike and Ian were all busy. Three more panels erected.

Station

The station staff arrived as two trains were running today. Here the station master opening up and checking all is ok.

Alterations

In the cafe kitchen the freezer now opens the correct way and the cover added to the sink will prevent pine needles from entry.

Clearance

Peter Q, Dave and Vic were working on the embankment and garden plots.

Rain Storm

The wind did blow and down came the rain, so it was shelter or go home.

By for now.

Vic

A few hardy souls ! stuck out the weather all day . Dave and Ian repaired a few broken electrical items and then as the rain eased went to help the spear fencing erectors .

A bit of rain hadn't stop them , by the end of the day they had installed fences beyond the running in Board .

Next Wednesday,  weather permitting , should see them reach the platform ramp and then its all down hill from there on . Peter K who was in the dry had started constructing the panels to suit the slope. Now it gets interesting .

It was a two train day , out today was first  P and O and then Dinmore Manor.

Dave

And Now For Something Completely Different

 Week commencing 19th October 2020

Monday was a nice pleasant sort of a day , it saw volunteers spread far and wide around the station doing various tasks.

The first thing to do is always more physical it seams than the rest of the days work.

A few finished Panels to shift up to the box , Brian and Ron eager to move the next one , soon wore off after the third !

Dave and Ron resorted to something more gentle .

 

Clearing the track bed of the build up of Pine cones and needles

 

And where did they all end up , on Tony's fire. A steady flow of wheel barrows kept it alight all day

Ian was back on the trellis until he ran out of  Wood preservative.

Pete and Brian had a nice steady job in the sun on the slope  , Ivy and weed removing. In places its beginning to  look quite good as the grass has begun to spread into the areas where the weeds have been removed.

 

Dave and Ron having tidied up the track bed moved over to platform 2 , the pictured just shows how much rubbish has been swept up just from the gate post.

 

Ian having run out of wood preserver then moved over to help Mike on the Spear fencing. 

Wednesday

We should have stayed in bed looking at the weather forecast , rain all day .

but the number of volunteers who turned up to brave the weather were higher than normal.

No painters , no point , no Gardeners , too wet , no sweepers of the drive .but what we did get was Volunteers willing to do a bit of grafting.

Peter K had constructed a new gate !

The gate will be fitted at the left of the signal box at the top of the stairs leading down to the locking room . First you need a post to hang it on , a sturdy post. Which by chance had been lying on the floor outside the signal box for ages.

The volunteers to do the task comprised of  Keith , Rod , Terry ( Can I Say Broadway Veterans and welcome back ) and also had the help of some of the usual  Broadway team.

Then after a great deal of measuring the post was in.

Why stop there , we have Spear fencing panels waiting to be fitted .Out with the tape and the motorized auger.

First the one

Then another

and finally a third .

I'm sure that if we hadn't have run out of bags of post create they would have gone farther but an excellent days work considering the weather.

Only other small job was in the workshop where Dave and Ian rubbed down and undercoated the wood for the GWR seat . The new gate had been too wet and cold to apply a red oxide coat of paint.

Only the one Train today " Dinmore Manor  " on duty, under grey October Skies.

 

Brushes out

 Week commencing 12th October 2020

Rain was on the forecast for the volunteers who turned out on Monday . The usual crowd turned out to do as much as they could before the rain eventually came.

A job that we started last week was the attempt to lower the drainage pipe that was jutting out of the grass bank .Dave , Pete and Ron started with more digging and we eventually managed to re align the pipes . There was mud everywhere  ! Putting back was a bit of a laugh slip sliding on the slope and trying to get it level.

 

But eventually we managed to sort of finish it off , and with a sprinkling of grass seed on the patches, job was a good one,  hopefully nobody would notice in a few months time .

Whilst this was all going on Tony and Brian were painting up a few spear fencing panels, Peter K has got into a bit of a rhythm and every Wednesday builds 3 or 4 , painters are struggling to keep up.

Ian elsewhere started on the wood treatment of the lattice fencing we erected last week .Pat did a bit of grass cutting.

Rain arrived as we were having  lunch, we just had to clear up the platform where Dave and Peter had been working, so it was all hands to the brushes.

The Rain can be useful sometimes.

So to Wednesday. Lovely start to the day and no rain on the horizon.

A quick turn around of the panels that had been painted on Monday any finished moved up to the Signal box storage area.

Mike and Clive were the painters today and Peter K in side constructing the new .

Clive had spotted that the gate hadn't been painted on the underneath of the rails , so a quick flip over and he address the problem.

Afterwards he is seen back with Mike on the panels. Ian on the other side was still treating the trellis'

 

Peter Q , Dave and Ron headed back down the drive for the usual brush up. Notice the blue skies for once.

Afterwards they moved to the embankment Ron  removing the ivy and weeds , whilst Peter Q and Dave did a bit of Embankment re profiling . At the bottom of the bank where it met the fence line , there was a large mound of earth that made walking down the side of the fence tricky . 

Pete dug out whilst Dave on Barrow moved it further down the hill and used it to fill in the holes.

A picture of Ron in action on the steep slopes , routing out of the Ground Ivy and weeds , a real ankle killer !

Sorry about it being a bit of a same as before Blog , but next week we might report on something a little bit different happening at Broadway Station . Wait and see.

The Loco of the day ( the only loco of the day , one train Wednesday ) Was 4270 out in the sunshine.

 Dave