Daisy your time is up !

Week Commencing 15th June 2026

Monday

4 around today , usual 3 plus Chris 

We have had over the past couple of weeks quite a few donations of plants and terracotta pots , all to brighten up the station. Kevin and Ian and Chris were seen potting up.

Myself was playing with the brush cutter behind platform 2.

Then mowing behind 1 

Bit further down Ian and Kevin started on the platform 1 embankment .

Its a case of platform 1 on Mondays and Platform 2 on Wednesday when the station is open.

Wednesday

 A wet start to the day , just the 4 again .

a couple of hanging baskets now hang next to the bridge stair case.

Mark and Ian had a go rubbing down the Fuel shed roof .

This was our mission today , time for the daisies to go .

Daises we going over , hidden within are the brambles , Ash trees and other weeds all getting a foot hold . Both Ian and myself with the brush cutters tackled the job.

More clay pots were filled with flowers and distributed around the station.

In his small greenhouse area decisions were being made , what and where .

Locos around today on a red timetable were " Manston " and 3850 .

Dave

Time for the big boys toys !

 Week Commencing 1st June 2026

Monday  

Back to proper summer weather Sunshine and showers !! 4 on Monday plus a crowd for a Friends of Broadway Meeting.

The platform to carriage ramp had a bit of an hinge problem , nothing that a few blows with an hammer couldn't solve.

Ron was at it with the mower over on platform 2 

It was just an idea to hollow out an old tree stump and put some flowers in it . It started of well then the wood got progressively harder.

Kevin's on flower duty slowly putting pots around the station to brighten the station up.

Wednesday

Mostly showers so no cutting of grass .4 in the morning and 3 volunteers despite the weather in the afternoon.

Rain seamed to have stopped work on platform 2 for the moment .

Its nearly time to get the petrol brush cutters out to tackle the embankments , we have 4 brush cutters each with a different attachment , so it was time to make sure they all worked !

As it was wet no taking them too far , below was the testing of the wire brush cutter on grass and a few brambles .

An idea was to sink the sign into fence post to try and make it less noticeable !

Kevin took some plants down to the bottom of the drive to brighten the raised bed up.

All 4 brush cutters performed well , only problem is that we only have one person who can use them !

Purple time table on Wednesday which meant 2 Steam Locomotives which were 2807 and  " Manston "

Dave