Wednesday 15th December 2021
A grey old day at Broadway Station , but we had 9 volunteers turn up , 2 Rod and Terry immediately left for Cheltenham Race course station. Their job down there was to brush dry kiln sand into cracks of the newly re-laid platform slabs .
That left Vic with his loppers pruning the trees and bushes in the car park garden.
Guess what the rest were up to ?
Brian was progressing in his construction of a new sign for the bottom of the drive.
Ian and Peter Q were getting the kit ready.
Down the Station drive Peter Q , Dave , Ian and Peter K Started to give the area a good brush up.
A few volunteers disappeared after lunch, Rod and Terry returned for afar and carried on with slabbing the ramp on platform 1. Dave and Ian then had a good fire going with the days rubbish.
Ian S had a walk down the far end of the track to see if we had had any more damage on the stored wagons . but on the way back he spotted a fallen tree or two high on the fence line.
Two trees had in fact come down and made a mess of one of the panels
Terry had a quick tidy up to see what would be needed to fix the problem .Maybe next week ?
And a welcome return of the Clock that resides in the Café , just back from the repairers , prognosis is not good , It does work but for how long ?
Poor thing is getting on ,and its innards are wearing out and in some cases wore out, the fact it was an old North Eastern Railway clock ( someone put GWR on the face ) puts it maybe over 100 years old.
But at least it looks good over the fireplace.
Dave
Why not try BBC's "The Repair Shop" for the clock? Just the sort of thing they get into.
ReplyDeleteLooks all very wintery. Miss the Christmas tree that you used to have. The clock looks great. As a friend of mine said on the SVR, "If it looks good and original, they will think it is". So even with a new drive it would still look good !
ReplyDeleteSeasonal regards, Paul.
I have an old NER clock from York Railway Institute. It stopped working during the spring, but fortunately we have a good repairer nearby. Alright, it was away for several months of rehab, which included full re-bushing, new mainspring and winding wire, and a good clean. £350 later, it's as good as new. Nothing from this vintage is beyond redemption. It just needs someone who knows what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteWe had an old LNWR clock - it was right just twice a day, then one day it went and a new one that kept good time appeared. The office was never the same again, after losing such a character.
ReplyDeleteA fine blog...thank you.
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