I didn't touch it!

Thursday 30 May 

It wasn't me guv! that's the usual cry when something falls apart. The south wall on the up side of Culvert 11A was dismantled, this evidently didn't turn out to be a particular difficult task as it was found that there wasn't much holding it together. It had taken a battering from the increasing size and weight of the traffic passing under the bridge. The 1904 designers hadn't contemplated 15 tonne trailers or the John Deere 6130R. 

There were 2 streams of work today, Stuart headed off to Hunting Butts to assist with a lineside fence survey. Issues in that area with trespassers means that the security of the area beyond Evesham Road  (Bridge 43) requires tightening. The rest of the gang headed up to Stanton to carry on with the up side cess headwall and the up side gully drain at Bridge 11. 

Trespasser access point 

Stored rolling stock - a magnetic attraction 

Mike and Peter asses the problem space  

Innovative access method 

The team at Stanton were beavering away... 

Andrew and Roger backfilling the cess headwall
(Photo: Alastair)  

Roger finishing off the wing wall
(Photo: Alastair) 

Up side cess headwall, headers go on next 

New gully grate installed 

The bendy wall on the south side of Culvert 11A (up side) more or less fell apart when the headers were removed. The removed bricks will be cleaned for reuse in the rebuild. 

South side wall removed 

During the afternoon there was a demonstration of safe sandwich eating, you can never be too careful when lunch has been delayed.  

The sandwich filling may jump out 😉

The last job was to unload the concreting ballast brought up from Winchcombe.  

Roger unloads the ballast 

There's still action to be seen by the visiting engines, the gala may be over, but the LNER B1 1264 was out this week and will be out the weekend alongside the King (KEII 6023). 

LNER B1 1264 on holiday from the NYMR