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