Relaxing a few more stiff pivots

 Tuesday 22nd July

Off to Broadway again today to continue with the checking of the operation of the point rodding.

Last week we had to remove the seized adjustable crank for the headshunt fpl - again this was solid and will need some heat - so a spare one (well oiled!) is being fitted

A bit of digging out under the steel plate to get a spanner on the bolt heads

And then it's back in position

Report from the signal box that the lever pulls nice and smoothly.  

Meanwhile opposite us on the headshunt 3850 waits for the hand operated points to be changed for the run round down platform 2

Now if you follow the connection from the adjustable crank across the tracks to the 4ft of the headshunt you can see the connection to the facing point lock - all this is now working smoothly, but will not be operational until the hand operated connection is eventually removed.

So this concludes the northern end pointwork - its now off to the Evesham Road  Bridge end to check out all the pivoting units. In each case we are disconnecting the point rodding to make sure the cranks move. No seizures here but some are pretty stiff and need vigorous twisting with penetrating oil to get free movement. 

The temp compensators were  tight and needed the central link removing to free up all the joints

In the end we were satisfied that everything was in order and all runs pulled OK from the signal box.

Next time we will check the operation of the signals.

Stand back to let 2807 past.

Curly