Week Commencing 14th October 2024
Monday
Just the four of us , and we were amazed to see the station clocks were back , it must have hapened last Friday when the station was on a none running day . Anyway its nice to see them back and working.
One of our on going jobs was to fix our neighbours post , which had been hit and broken by either the dustbin waon or a coach ! a replaceement post had been sourced and the old one dug out and replaced.
Around the damp station worked continued !
Pat and Ron on his last day ( before returning home to Hong Kong ) took to the track bed and platform 2 clearing away the pine needles !
Wednesday
A gloomy wet day , saw just Ian and Myself pottering around the station.
Over on platform 2 some more Plynth headers at the front had been laid and a few reds had appeared on the far end .
Scaffolding had returned first thing on Wednesday ! The hour hand on the one side was out of alignment ! All got sorted before the station opened.
Having a sort out in the mess hut revealed an old photograph of the station drive way from back in the day , it looked much nicer and had that country station feel ! Shame it had to change.
Locomotives around today were "3850 " and the DMU.
Totally agree with your "country station feel" comment on that old photo. Wonderful phrase. No problems with advertising clutter there. But I guess we move on to more sophisticated times?
ReplyDeleteMike Rose.
One way that you could regain that 'country station' feel would be to plant a hedge along the side of the roadway that is oposite the path. No fence though as more advertising will apear. You know it will. Just a thought that you all might discus together.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Paul.