Catch-up time

Thursday 24 October

Five of us in to attend an abrasive wheel course, this is part of the ongoing training programme to keep us all up to date with the kit we use. After the course we had time to break the milepost number moulds out of the boxes they were cast in.

Mould blocks broken out

Numeral patterns removed

The moulds need to sit for 28 days to dry out, then they should be ready for use.

Saturday 26 October

Work abandoned for the day due to heavy rain. However, a report came in about some flooding at Dixton Cutting near Culvert 32A.

Down side cess, Dixton Cutting
(Photo: Dave French)

Monday 28 October

The gang set out for Manor Lane at Gotherington this morning to continue the vegetation clearance along the straight to Bishops Cleeve. The stretch is on an embankment for most of the way and has 9 culverts to get the Cotswold rain away.

Culvert 37A down side, runs under the occupation bridge
(Photo: Roger)

Culvert 37A up side, extended wing walls
(Photo: Dave)

Culvert 37A up side
(Photo: Dave)

Culvert 37B down side headwall
(Photo: Dave)

Roger and Nigel inspecting the outlet on 37B

Culvert 37B up side outlet chamber
(Photo: Dave)

Culvert 37B up side headwall
(Photo: Dave)

Culvert 37C down side headwall
(Photo: Dave)

Not content with clearing the ends of 3 culverts, the gang cleared the paths up to the foot crossing

Gotherington Fields foot crossing up side
(Photo: Dave)

On the way back to Winchcombe, they stopped off at Dixton Cutting to have a look at the area reported as flooding on Saturday. The main problem was that Tirle Brook had overflowed upstream of the railway, the flood water had run down a depression in the adjacent field and run over the cutting slope into the cess.