More Findings

Tuesday 28th Feb

A surprising find in an old rusty stillage covered in a huge blue plastic sheet while clearing Winchcombe yard ready for the new S & T workshop

This revealed a number of very rusty cam units - think that these came from Stratford on Avon in the nineties, so they have been rusting away here for quite a while!

We shall clean and oil these up for replacing some of the worn ones in our signal boxes in due course.

Here's one dismantled 

And here it is after grinding off all the rust , given a good oiling and re-assembled

The central plate with the cut-out is connected to a lever which operates the locking mechanism down in the signal box locking room. Most of the levers have one of these attached.

The levers in Winchcombe signal box getting their paintwork touched up by Malcolm W

There is still work to do  before services resume. All signal box systems to be checked , pointwork to be gauged, all locking room fittings secure, etc.

Curly