Thursday 25 July
It was a bit on the warm side today, the bricklayers were complaining that the bricks were too hot to handle. It'll be too cold in a couple of months, no pleasing some people 😉
We had to knock off early today at Stanton due to the heat, but time wasn't wasted, we had trip to Broadway to swap some chamber lids on the north end of Platform 2, these were reported as a hazard to shipping last Saturday, thanks to our rapid intervention they should no longer prove to be troublesome.
Culvert 11A at Stanton had some more bricks carefully fixed on the former for the brick arch. Although only a few people will ever see this, the knowledge that it has been repaired to its original shape will give us a warm glow 😊.
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| Brick Arch - Start of day |
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| Brick Arch - former moved outwards and Roger laying another batch of Arch Taper bricks |
Michael carried on with the up side north side wall of the channel
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| Bricklayers in action |
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| Brick Arch - the length of the former limits how many can be laid |
The mortar needs to go off before we move the arch again, otherwise there will probably just be a pipe of bricks in the invert of the channel.
Andrew returned from his cruise around the canal network and got to remove the headers along the south wall on the down side.
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| Andrew gets words of encouragement on his first day back (Photo: Alastair) |
Roger moved onto the up side cess outfall to add the headers to the inside wall
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| Roger moved out of the shade when it got hotter 😒 |
Progress today...
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| Down side ready for new bricks to raise the height |
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| Up side cess side walls finished |
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| Up side channel north wall Stretcher course front done, back half way |
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| Clay packed into the hole left by a sleeper removed from alongside the down side inlet pipe |
After lunch, we took a leisurely drive up to Broadway to attend to the loose chamber lids at the end of Platform 2. While there we swapped another 2 sets in the 6' where the loco crews may need to walk.
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| Alastair and Roger find some lids stored at Broadway Station |
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| The offending wobbly concrete lids |
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| Concrete lids replaced with grilles |
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| Lids replaced in the 6' next to the barrow crossing |
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| King Edward II in our way 😠 |
Only 32 degrees in the car when we got back to Winchcombe, so not quite as warm as Phoenix Arizona, but too hot for bricks 😏
fantastic effort at Stanton ,you needed a Fan off the generator in that heat !!
ReplyDeleteKnowing many of you well , can i invite you to assist at the Food & Drink Fayre as Crossing monitors at either of our 2 venues . i hope many will bring their families along on 19 / 20 th October so if you can do a AM or PM shift please let me know , I already have support from Pway colleagues .email - dailymayell@gmail.com to work at Toddington or Winchcombe .
This work is often left to a VA plea for help at the last minute so any 3 hours shift will be much appreciated and i hope you will all come anyway to enjoy the last event of the season , and use your tickets Up !
best regards john Mayell ,' Daily ' to his GWR pals .