Monday 5th September 2022
The early birds today had a bit of rush on , they had to remove all the platform furniture from the platform around the station building.
Reason was the slabs around the building were having a bit of a clean up. Years of spills had made parts of the platform looking very grubby , time for the big boys to do their stuff.
With all the seats , sack trucks and trolleys moved out of the way , this little device appeared , driven by a small diesel motor inside , its a pressure washer on steroids.
First pass is with a rotating brush and steam heat.
Second pass was with a pressure washer to blow away the dirt .
The finished product before everything went back , Mike took the opportunity to give the windows a good clean , whilst there was nothing in the way.
The weather in the morning was sunny , but the previous days rain had blown a fair amount of debris off the trees.
Peter , Dave and Ian on the blower soon made the area presentable.
Mike taking advantage of the good weather gave the station windows another coating of brown gloss.
Chris gave the garden area a trim. and Brian down the drive kept the grass and weeds under control.
After putting the seats etc back, ready for the next days visitors .Dave and Ian resumed the constructing of the new wooden barriers.
As the photo shows it has started to rain , most of the volunteers by then had vanished , just Dave and Ian left working on the second barrier in the relative dryness of the container !
As some ( many ) had noticed the camera was looking a lot lower than it should ( no thanks to the station staff with a brush ) it has now been put back to its original position.
I do monitor the camera a few times a day , so if it goes wrong I will know , so please can I asked you to be patience and not to bother anybody else . It will get fixed as soon as it can.
Dave
