Change of scenery

Thursday 29 August

Bit of a change for today, the team went on an outing to Tyseley Locomotive Works to collect bricks. We had bought some imperial bullnosed header bricks that were surplus to their requirements. This was a joint venture along with a group from Construction & Maintenance who were collecting some hatched edge blocks. 

Bullnosed brick pile found 

The hunt for the hatched edges 

Michael and Nigel with the trolley 

Bricks sorted to weed out the rejects 

There was a mixture of patterns, ⅔ were the standard profile while the rest seem to be more a streamlined (Gresley A4) shape. As they are destined for culvert headwalls the shape isn't quite so important. 

The contrasting patterns as seen loaded 

Back at Winchcombe we unloaded onto pallets as they probably won't be used until next year. 

Streamliners on the left, a few double bullnosed in the middle
and the standard profile on the right 

The hatched edgings for C&M 

Quite a relaxing day for us, except for the 3 hours driving. Back to normal on Saturday.