Week commencing 26th January 2026
Monday
5 around today , weather not okay a bit of a storm brewing .
Kevin has well and truly moved into old mess hut , old fridge is now a storage cupboard.
Out of the wind and rain Chris in the warmth of the ladies toilet gave one of the waste bins a fresh coat of paint.
Over on platform 2 the team had made a concrete block to support one of the canopy stanchions .
Edges were put on one of the bins.
Chris and Ian fitted some draft excluders on the shed.
Signs of life in one of the pots , could be snowdrops, daffodils or tulips ?
Wednesday
Day after the storm that went through on Tuesday, the southern end of platform 1 , 2 large branches had come down , that make 4 that have come down in the past couple of months.
Smashed another lamp !
Bits all over the place !
We spent most of the morning clearing up , sweep up the glass and chop up the trees. and take them down to the bonfire area .
This was interesting a broken branch stuck in the ground not far from the platform edge .
Chris was back in the shed on the final part of the insulation fitting to the corner wall.
Mark and young Dave carried on cleaning up the track bed .
Kevin put a small fence up to try and stop people standing on the bank, to take photos.
An attempt was made to straighten out the top of the lamp which got hit .
At little Broadway the Auto Train arrives with the afternoon train to Honeybourne.
We have lost trees and electricity poles down here in Cornwall. We lost power for a day and a half.
ReplyDeleteSorry to learn that you have had another lamp top hit. As Jo stated, they are of a fragile construction, so the wind gets the point!
The small fence looks like it could be stepped over. The only way to keep people from standing on the bank is to create a GWR spear fencing run all along the tarmac edge.
The picture at 'Little Broadway' shows an auto tank trying to push a GWR diesel railcar, not an auto coach. Therefore it cannot be considered as an auto train.
Regards, Paul.