Mainly Digging

 Tuesday 15th Feb

Five of us off to a very wet Toddington today to continue with the re-fitting of rodding, etc. to the new pointwork south of the station.

Because it was so wet we had to postpone the mixing of concrete for preparing the bases for mounting the detector unit and pulley wheels - just made do with digging holes for the shuttering:

The rest of the day was spent digging in the concrete rodding stools. Quite a strenuous job getting into the fresh ballast and making sure that we kept a good alignment at a constant height relative to the track. 

We managed 7 stools before we decided to call it a day.

All the connections to the FPL have now been made - just needs a small modification to the locking  slots and some adjustment to the throw of the blades and its good to go.

Back in the signal box locking room Neil C has wrestled back into position the electric lock for lever 26 (the one with the mangled pen inside!). Space is extremely limited here and was a bit of a challenge getting it back in and bolted up. Its the one with the grey cover poking out.

Hoping for better weather next week - 

Curly