A Catch Up

 Tuesday 30th August

Today we started moving house! Now that we have a sparkly 40ft container in the yard at Winchcombe we can re-organise all our equipment from diverse locations into one place.

Last week we built some serious wooden shelving . Here's Neil in full flow with battery drill and battery screwdriver. John P had cut all the battens ready for this

 

And the finished shelves - providing a serious amount of shelving

Looks quite bright with the flash but we need to install some lighting so that we can see what we are doing .  There is no electricity supply on this side of the yard at this point so Neil C is digging a trench down the side of the concrete roadway to provide a connection on the other side near the toilet block  (there is a duct under the roadway through which the cable can be fed)

So we spent most of today sorting out signal fittings, loading them onto the transit  and moving them to their new home 

What do we put where?!

So, to summarise the last few weeks . 

We have spent time making and fitting two brackets to secure the two mechanical detectors at Toddington to the adjacent rail. This is to ensure that there is no relative movement putting the locking bars out of alignment.

Here is one fitted at Toddington (the triangular bit)

Plus a lot of cleaning and painting work including Winchcombe signal box window frames and sills

Various signal fittings 

And of course the scruffy Winchcombe automatic gate!

Finally some repairs to the foot crossing at Gotherington signal box which we have given a good dose of creosote - but we shall have to return when we have sorted out some timber to  replace some decaying boarding. 

We have also prepared some boarding to replace a rotten part of the foot crossing at Toddington signal box.

No letting up on the jobs to do!

Curly