WET WET WET !

 Week Commencing 23rd September 2024

Monday

Who would turn up on a miserable rainy Monday  ? well 2 of us did,  myself and Ian !

The gas bottles on train 1 needed changing and Ian in Pats absence decided to give me a hand.

but first a walk round the station saw one down pipe blocked and overflowing and this one by the south end of the building was blocked and running onto the pavement. luckily for us the kitchen door entrance was a bit higher than the overflow or it could have flooded the kitchen and café !

It was the wettest change over I've done for a long time and it was on the wrong and awkward platform  .

The reason it was over the other side was to let the road railer deliver supplies to Broadway for the Platform 2 build.

Bags of sand and bags were dropped of in their respective required places and afterwards a bit of shuffling around of materials to get them in their right place.

Ian and myself had a go at seeing which manhole was blocked or not, but we finally called it a day and left it till Wednesday.

Wednesday

Look at the weather ! It didn't last .

Platform 2 had seen more plinth headers had been laid.

A bit of tidying up on the platform 2 side , old pallets and covers headed to the wet bonfire area.

One job we can do in the wet is put together some trugs for the shed.

Whilst the rain didn't arrive till 2 o'clock it was dry enough for Pat to mow the driveway grass and Chris and young Dave to give the driveway area a bit of a tidy up too.

Whilst is was discovering and removing more old station debris from the bank , I dug this out , a head gasket from an old engine , any body got any ides of which ?

One or two guess , a ford gasket , to fit a E93A .

The 2 Class 2800`s were on duty today , 3850 and 2807 

Dave