The Day Before.

 Monday 12th April

This sounds like a Bond Film. No! tomorrow trains are back. 

They will be the same as last Autumn Covid restricted, passengers staying in their compartment whilst travelling. Going from Toddington to Cheltenham return to Broadway and back to Toddington. Changes have been made at Toddington with a new entrance road keeping cars and pedestrians separate and hopefully safer.

Cold Start

Waking up at home it is white outside.

The roads were clear and all Monday volunteers were at work.

At the workshop Ian sorting out hosepipes, Brian is talking to Dave who is repairing the Hayles Abbey Halt  board.

Tony and Brian have uncovered the memorial bench and cut the grass. Jo just arrived.

David also taking photos. Is it me?

Here is 2 shots of the Spear Fencing on Platform 2 showing the progress.

The edging slabs can be seen quite well on the down slope to the crossing. A similar finish will be done on the Platform 1 side to match.

The Strimmer brigade of Pat and Peter were attacking the grass behind the Driveway fence.

It looks as if Mrs Mop was at the Station today. The equipment is standing idle but where is she?

I was starting the clearance of the flower beds. Where does all these weeds come from?

Just showing the difference in weather we had had today , the first is about 7.00 am the 2nd about 7.00 pm.

So to Wednesday.

A much better day weather wise a bit of a chill but the sun shone all day , and due to restrictions being lifted on numbers the Monday gang could now attend on Wednesday. 

Terry, Rod and Keith set about another 3 spear fencing panels on platform 2 , and below Peter K was fixing a bespoke panel which was made to go between the signal box and the gate post.

Down the platform yet another panel in the pipeline was being painted by Mike

Over on the drive embankment Peter Q was planting more flowers , whilst Pat was trying not to cut them down with his Flymo

Over in the workshop the saga of the Hayles Abbey Halt running board continues .

As seen on other Blogs the Board after just over a year had paint peeling off. We brought it back to be attended to. Strange that in some places the paint just fell of back down to the bare wood but in others a bit of elbow grease a heat gun and a scraper were needed !

 

By the end of Wednesday every thing had been stripped back to bare wood again , a new top had been made , holes filled with filler .

 

Next Monday a different type of primer has been sourced , lets see if that does the Job .

Finally after many months the Trains are finally running again , only the one Loco running today .

Thursday

It's Me.