That Time of Year again

 Wednesday 9th March 2022

Reasonable day weather wise for our attending volunteers , main task as always at this time of year is the putting of the Platform furniture from under the canopy to its usual spots . Its the same every year where does it all go ?

We should really make a plan up where everything belongs .

Ray seen here placing the first of the litter bins in the sitting area.

Sorry you will have to imagine the wooden bench`s  and seats being put out but its roughly the same as last year !

Bit of a brush up was needed at the south end of platform 1.The wind had blown down more than the usual amount of Needles and cones.

A small gang of Terry, Paul, Keith and Bob had a back braking job of wood treating the Ballast boards on 3 of the over bridges.

First was bridge one , by the station , the second bridge was Bridge 2 over the Childswickham road, way past the signals that you can see in the back ground. and later they managed to get to bridge 5 about 1.5 miles towards Toddington.

A more local painting job was done by Mike and Brian.

With a new can of white masonry paint , roller and brushes they started the job of repainting the white line at the platform edge.

Just in front of them was Peter K scrubbing the dirt off the edge.

A happy Chris had been cleaning the piles of needles from the front of the station building , he must be the only person using buckets as everyone else will use a wheel barrow !

Over on platform 2 , Neal had just finished fixing the last board on to the Bridge stairs platform side.

Looking good for first weekend of the new season which as you all know starts this Saturday .

I have done a video that shows the Canopy Extensions being erected , it was created using the web cam shots taken daily and stitched together with a short  explanation of what's occurring.

https://youtu.be/dQjwxa3YWPU

You should turn the music down as it gets on my nerves after a time .

Dave