Door to Door

Monday 26th July 

It was the usual Monday volunteers in at Broadway.

Brian, Peter & Tony were first at the "Goods Shed" rehanging a sticky door, follwed on by working on a Station Door filling a couple of holes where a lock had been removed.

Vic had received 3 donated plants so prepared the ground for planting in the walled garden.

Pat, Tony & Brian were grass cutting.

Peter & Ian were out with the hose and watering can giving the pots and flower beds a good soaking.

Tuesday

Vic took to the rails with family and friends. First train into Broadway Station with a fair number of waiting passengers.

Wednesday

More Slabs arrive from Toddington in between the rain and thunder storms.

It was a day of slab shifting only Pat on one of the embankments did something different , but later he joined in the fun ?.

Rod and Paul did the delivering, Ian the loading.

Peter , Dave and Clive did the shifting,  aided sometimes by young Dave and Chris

Stacking down on Platform 2 was done by Tony, Chris , Dave and later Pat. This is the what we had by the end of the 3rd delivery , 2 more loads came after that . Was there enough , not yet.

Foremarke Hall and 4270 were on duty today both carrying the " 40 years Anniversary " of the GWSR head boards .

Vic and Dave

Scorcio

Week commencing 19th  July 2021

Freedom day came and went but the weather was still a bit " Scorcio " as they said on the Fast Show Sketch. It was a case of lets see what we could do before it got too hot.

But it wasn't too hot to do the white lines for the Station car park . Tony on the heat gun , Dave Mike and Ian were on measuring and then the placement of the lines . Sorry I was so busy placing the lines I forgot to take a picture of the area after but you probably get the gist of what a car park looks like.

We then with the left overs bits made up some small triangles and placed them on the speed humps .

Brian was again on the mower , grass beginning to turn a bit brown in places , whilst on bank behind platform 1 Pat was hacking through the undergrowth.

A visitor in the shape of the class 37 .

By lunchtime most had had enough by 2 o clock we had all departed .

Wednesday 

Weather just as hot , again it was a case of doing something until it got unbearable. 

Peter Q was brushing up down the drive in the semi shade

Whilst a visit from a small team construction and maintenance , made use of the heat gun to repair a hole in the tarmac at the bottom of the drive.

  Pat had moved over to the end of Platform 2 , he was hoping to clear a line up to the signal before it got too hot , but it is hard work and the heat got the better of him.

Somebody who looked like the sun wasn't having an effect on was Clive , merrily painting the spear fencing !

Down by the workshop in the dappled shade Dave was putting the holes in the dagger boards , the sun eventually cleared the trees and enough was enough.

 

In fact Clive and Dave were the last to leave , they too succumbed to the temperatures. Leaving Julie manning the shop.

The people with the least envious jobs today and this week are the crews of the Locomotives on duty.

Today saw  " Dinmore Manor " and  " 4270 " 

Dave

Slabs arrive

Week commencing 12th July 2021

Monday saw a decent turn out at the station , weather was good , talk about the football was indifferent , and per usual there was plenty to do.

 Vic was in the shade weeding the drive garden.

Pat was high on the platform 2 side.

Peter Q was doing what he has been doing for the last few weeks  , brushing up the endless supply of cones ,weeding,  watering and keeping an eye on his plants.

 Brian was lower down strimming around the sign.

 Pat eventually hit the bottom of the bank and virtually disappeared into the undergrowth.

Elsewhere Dave was marking out the daggerboards reading for cutting.

Wednesday 

The Main job of the day was the arrival of the Slabs from Toddington . The flat bed arrived middish morning with 20 off 3 * 2 paving slabs which had been rescued from the old Garden center . Then it was all available hands to the sack trucks , to put them into storage at the bottom of platform 2.

Three times it went away only to return with another 20 each time , the temperature had climbed and the volunteers grew weary by the end of the day. But a job well done.

Painters were out in force on the spear fencing.

Ray , Mike and Clive out in the sun.

Elsewhere Dave put the repaired clock back in the Cafe (  minute Hand had to be rebuilt and put back on ) Pat carried on in the undergrowth .

Locomotives on duty today were  P and O and Dinmore Manor

Start of something different !

 Week commencing 5th July 2021

We are still a few volunteers down due to the pre school holiday season for us pensioners , but a much better turn out compared to last week.

First job on the cards for Dave and Ian was to fit the small bit of spear fencing between the gate post and the start of the slope.

Pat back of his holiday started where he left off , heavy strimming behind platform 2.

 And now for something different a request for us to start making the dagger boards for the canopy extension.

there could be a possibility of the extension being erected after the Winter running in January , so everything will have to be ready for fitting in the few weeks we are closed down.

Dave , Brian and Ian started by cutting the tongue and groove boards to the correct length.

Dave applied the pointy bits and then the required hole , Brian then cut the slot.

8 done , but then nobody could remember the exact amount  we had to do!

 Mike was applying red oxide on one of the newly constructed panels

 

 

Then he did a bit cob web removing with his extended feather duster.

Wednesday 

Clive and Ian painted more panels , whilst Peter K returned to his Portakabin to construct more Panels.

Young David was down the drive picking up yet more cones and debris . 

Tony was on the mower  keeping the grass tidy .

Pat was back with the strimmer on Platform 2 

Dave was on his own but managed to cut another 35 dagger boards , just needs the hole and slot cut.

The Broadway away team of Rod , Keith and Ian were down at Toddington  recovering paving slabs, from the old Garden Centre.

82  slabs that will be used on the platform 2 we recovered and there will more to come next week.

Locomotives on duty today were  " P and O  " and  " Dinmore Manor "

There was sad news today that Steve Bucknall had passed away . Steve had been a volunteer on Permanent way before joining the Broadway Group in its early years, later he was a familiar face helping in the Broadway Shop, below Steve on the dumper.

RIP Steve