The Last week

 Week commencing 25th October 2021

Last week in October usually means that its the last week of the year we will see the trains running during the week into Broadway only the Christmas / New year week will we see them again . 

But over the past few days the passenger numbers seem very high must have been half term or people getting there last train ride fix of the year.

Monday saw the usual low number of volunteers , Dave, Peter Q, Brian and Pat.

What to do !

Well there is always the drive to sweep and drains to clear out !

Peter checking 

Brian sweeping.

Peter Sweeping and yours truly sweeping on the opposite side. afterwards Peter found a nice spot to do a bit of weeding.

Pat was somewhere to the north of the station doing what he does best with the brush cutter and strimmer. And Dave was Constructing a new A Board out of the scraps of wood from the dwindling wood pile.

Wednesday 

A few more volunteers turned out today , Peter Q and Dave headed to Toddington to look at a small job . to find fitting a door frame with door , stud wall and covering, insulating a ceiling and plaster boarding after is not a small job !!

Mean while when we returned to Broadway we found that .

Peter K had made a tool for pulling out the weeds from the ballast ( just to save our old backs from bending down )

Young Dave was on the car park .

Dave and Peter had brought back the Door frame and Peter gave it a quick coat of Prime.

The Wednesday gang had a discussion on what to do with the end of ramp on platform 2 . at the end of the day they had fitted 6 slabs and were filling the holes to make that area much easier to walk and run the wheel barrows over

Trains of the day were the Heritage DMU and the steam train was pulled by 4270

Don't forget the the weekend of November 6th / 7th is our  40th Anniversary Gala , with our intensive timetable of the Steam and Diesel locomotives.

Dave