Small Jobs around the Station.

 Week Commencing 29th September 2025

Monday

3 on the Monday

Ron , Ian and Myself .

Bit of sweeping up by Ron on the car park under the watchful eye of Ian.

The illusion of the platform lights being on !

Big old Smokey bonfire .

Ron and I took to the cone ( ankle twisters ) and needles removal on platform 2 .

Wednesday

Same 3 volunteers.

Time to fix the slippery ramp that gives access to the shed. replacing the wooden slats with tread board from the old bridge steps.

Fixed just before the shed opened , tested by a fluffy duck for strength . passed ,

Big push to finish both sides of the dagger boards with undercoat.

A quick trip to the bottom of the drive to tidy up that corner.

Locomotives around today were  " P and O " and " Foremarke Hall "

Dave

The Grass has finally started to grow !

 Week commencing 22nd September 2025

2 nice days this week after last weeks wind and rain , finally the grass has reappeared after the long hot summer .

Monday

4 around today , little heaps of pine needles have been gathered up around the site , something to do with the high winds .

Chris had a turn with " Billy " first a trip down the platform and then up and down the drive , Billy had a full bag at the end of the morning.

More donations needed sorting out .

Myself was on the mower and Ian did the edges.

Wednesday

Over on platform 2 , the rear wall grows steadily ! Now on to the north facing wall .

Joined today by Chris and Dave , Dave helped with the strimming around the trees and posts.

Kevin was doing a bit of dead heading in the bottom garden still quite colourful .

Top garden had a tidy up , grass and weeds are in a full growing mode.

Chris was over on platform 2 giving a good sweep.

A spare hour or so on the dagger boards and lick of undercoat.

Locomotives on duty today were Foremarke hall , 2807 and D 47376

Dave

Holiday Season for us old folks

 Week Commencing 8th September

Monday

This time of year volunteers have their holidays , so in the next month some will attend whilst others are away.

Returning to the fold was Chris , away soon Ron and Myself !

A strange Locomotive was around first thing ! The track weed killer sprayer thing .

Weve have had to upgrade the PC to run windows 11 , in line with the railways suggestion.

Nice day for a bonfire , lots of needles and packaging to burn,

Ron did a few jobs in the kitchen , fixing a wonky panel by the side of the dish washer and a noisy tap. 

Afterwards he went down to give the dagger boards a second coating of primer. Joined in the afternoon by Ian who had been sorting out the latest donations for the shed.

Kevin and Chris were seen weeding the platform garden

Kevin had a new tree saw and he was testing it out on the dead wood in the hedge !

I will be off for the next week , so you will have to use your imagination on what the lads get up to.

Dave

End of Summer !

 Week Commencing 1st September 2025

Monday

Back up to the 4 on Monday , at Broadway after yet another gas bottle change, I found that Kevin had discovered some grass to cut !

Strange things have been donated to our shed but this could have been the strangest , no not Ron .

Elsewhere Ian and Ron rubbed down the new dagger boards that will ornate the shed.

Over on platform 2 the bricks on the back wall rise steadily.

All boards at the end of the day had been rubbed down and given a coating of clear wood persevere .

Wednesday

Rain was on the horizon but we had 5 volunteers turn out.

First job of the day saw the changing of the tap on the outside of the signal box.

This tap had no return valve fitted so regs deemed it had to changed , a 10 min job.

Kevin was trying to keep on top of the brambles over on the bank on platform 2.

Chris and young Dave were also on platform 2 clearing the heaps of wet needles that the previous wind and rain had brought down. 

Time to coat the dagger boards with primer / undercoat 

2 steam today , which included 2807 and Foremarke Hall.

The rains came after lunch so by 2 we were gone.

Dave

Too Hot For Steam Engines !

 Week Commencing11th August 2025

Monday

Another hot one , myself and Paul did an early morning gas bottle change , Paul did other things this time and I headed to Broadway via Winchcombe .

Kevin from C and W had donated a selection of Bric a Brac which needed picking up and delivering back to Broadway to be sorted out .

One of the bins lids had a habit of closing on peoples heads if they weren't careful , Kevin devised a prop so i could stay put when the station staff changed the bins.

Takes nearly 2 hours to water the gardens nowadays , this one at the bottom of the drive, its in the sun most of the day and is the thirstiest , but still looks good.

Kevin gave the weeds /grass a mow around the garden.

Dry weather has seen the pine trees starting to drop some of the needles earlier than normal , meaning out came Billy for a run up and down.

Poor old Billy looked in a state after and needed a hose down but it came up looking like new afterwards.

Wednesday

Up to 3 today ! and another hot day.

Over on platform 2 , the back wall rises slowly but surely.

Poor wheel barrow seen better days , tyre cracked and inner tube perished .

Bob joined us today for a job just up his street , 3 bricks had come loose in the wall behind the kiosk.

Another job to look at was by the signal box on platform 2, the gate doesn't latch any more ! some thing has dropped a bit ?

Bob sorted the brick work out , just got to be careful with the mowers on that section of grass.

Too hot for the Steam engines this week due to the fire risks so out came the 2 Diesels !

Class 50 " RODNEY " and the Class 47 "47105 "

Dave