Week Commencing 3rd November 2025
Monday
This time of year its usually time to put the station furniture under the canopy , mainly to save it from the ravishes of the winter weather. But they have decided to run a Saturday Fireworks train from Broadway to Cheltenham , so everything got put on hold.
Rainy Monday for the ones who turned out , not much we could do.
Except remove our 2 leaning trees !
The 2 trees were chopped down , then cut up into smaller pieces , the bigger pieces seam to vanish maybe to be used as a winter fuel supply ? The bonfire area is at its maximum height so a new pile at the end of the platform was created.
Wednesday
My first job was a gas bottle change on train 2 , which was eventually found hiding in platform 2 at Winchcombe.
Back at Broadway.
Kevin was moving around a few shrubs , with Ian's guidance . Chris was measuring up , in readiness for installing more insulation into our Broadway goods shed.
We also had a visit from Mark a potential future volunteer !
Using old scrap timber I turned my hand into making a cold frame for Kevin's seed trays.
Over on Platform 2 the notrh wall has been raised to corbelling height and work is now on the south wall .
More sad news, was the passing away of Roger Johnson ,
A volunteer at Broadway for many years, here seen beating up the mixer and then after he moved on to Construction and Maintenance , our condolences to his family.
