It was a case watching the sky today as a shower was threatened for lunchtime and it could have had a detrimental impact on the new brickwork. As luck would have it there was a few spots but a heavier shower came over Winchcombe just as the gang was packing up.
The south side wall at Culvert 11A, on the up side at Stanton, is starting on the long road back to recovery - bricks are going back down; that's a major achievement. Since the track was levelled on Monday the whole area under the bridge is starting to look a lot more promising. The only cloud on the project horizon is the supply of AR1.1 taper bricks for arch construction, the manufacturer has quoted a 24 week lead time for these, we could do with them in 4 weeks time. If anyone out there knows where we can get hold of 80 blue taper engineering bricks please shout, reusable imperials would be brilliant, but we can work with new.
First job for Michael was to concrete the gully drain top in position. This was easier to do with the level surface to work to.
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| Michael doing the shuttering, Dave clearing the edges (Photo: Alastair) |
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| Andrew on the brick cleaning station (Photo: Alastair) |
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| Roger replacing the base layer at the outfall end (Photo: Alastair) |
Once the shuttering was done, the concrete went in.
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| Concrete fill (Photo: Alastair) |
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| Smoothing the surface for a perfect finish |
The bricklaying started in earnest today, the backing wall is all new blue engineering bricks, the centre course will be recycled red bricks, and the face recycled blue tapers topped with blue imperial engineering bricks recovered from the area.
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| Roger and Michael building the backing wall (Photo: Alastair) |
Andrew got a break from brick cleaning by doing the landscaping around the new headwall on the up side cess.
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| An essential finishing off job (Photo: Alastair) |
By later in the afternoon the visible signs of progress were plain to see.
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| Gully drain in position |
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| Dave's progress under the bridge |
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| The backing wall stretches out behind Michael |
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| Outfall end, all 3 rows in place |
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| Another load of mortar arrives |
Hopefully the mortar should have hardened before the forecast heavy rain for tomorrow arrives, the last thing we need is to find the new bricks washed away 😔
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