Broadway Station Maintenance Team: Some Stay at Home.

Monday 15th November

Vic was at home in Broadway whilst others were at Toddington. One of the gardens tided up and cut back.

Dave , Peter, Brian and Ian headed to the Old Garage at Toddington , trying to do as much as they could to wrap the job up. But before that, more of putting the station to bed until after Christmas. As there were four of us ( its easier moving stuff with more than 2 ) the station seats were brought under cover .

Then the picnic tables / benches etc.

By lunchtime we had done as much as we could at Toddington , and retuned to Broadway to do a bit of tidying up outside and around the station building.

Brian and Dave on the Brushes whilst Ian was the wheelbarrow man.

Wednesday

A quick trip down to Toddington to hand back the keys and pick up the remaining tools and kit, then back to Broadway.

A P way gang were on site doing a bit of grinding where the new rails had been installed and further down another gang were replacing the crossing rubber inserts .

Peter Q was inspecting the area where the tree had been cut down , a few of his plants had taken a hit but nothing that can`t be replaced.

Dave and Ian finally found the cover that we have previously used to cover the bench in the small picnic area , after a wash down it was left to dry and then covered over.

Peter K joined Peter Q in weeding the bank.

Whilst on top of the bank Ian cleared up after the tree Surgeons !

Pat join the group giving the drive a brush .

Elsewhere Julie and John were having a end of season sort out in the shop , every so often a small heap would appear outside for Dave to dispose of. ( Bin or Bonfire ) .

At the other end of the line were the Broadway Away team, they had also started on Monday . Their job was at Cheltenham Station all they had to do was lift and relay the slabs on the platform ! I will copy Terry's email that gives a description of what they were and had be up to.

" Work started on Monday for our project to remove all the slabs at CRC and relay them to remove a potential trip hazard.

On Monday, Rod and Paul collected a truck from Winchcombe to collect various items of equipment from Broadway and Winchcombe that we needed for the job. Keith, Bob and I went straight to CRC, and we were soon visited by Fairview, who delivered 5 tons of sand and 15 of 25 bags of cement, which will be used next week when the slabs are re-laid.

After this, we started lifting the slabs and storing them on the coping slabs. We managed to remove slabs as far as the halfway point of the station building, and then Bob and I regraded the sand, removing the excess, as the slabs will be re-laid on a mortar bed.

On Wednesday, we had a larger team of Rod, Mike S, Bob, Paul, Keith S and me, so we split into three teams, one removing and stacking the slabs, one regrading the sand base and the last removing the excess sand and storing it for possible future use. By the end of the day, all the slabs (about 250) had be removed and stacked and about 80% of the sand base had been regraded. "