Gotherington Signal Update

 

Last Monday we enlisted the help of our colleagues in P-Way who came out with the Road Rail Vehicle and lifted a replacement post into the prepared hole in the concrete where the wooden post once lived.  We wedged the post near upright with timbers placed alongside it in the hole.

The RRV then picked up the rotten wooden post and headed back to Winchcombe.

On the Tuesday the gang went to Gotherington, and erected the scaffold around the new post.

Here we see the gang pausing whilst 7903 Foremarke Hall comes past, John B doing his lookout duties on the left of shot.

Once the train had passed we completed the erection of the scaffold and stood the post properly upright in the centre of the hole, tying it off at the top of the scaffold.  We then mixed and poured round the post a cement heavy and quite wet concrete mix, trowelling it up to the post to prevent water pooling against the post base.  Once that was completed we went back to Winchcombe to continue preparing fittings for the post.

The next visit will see us fitting out the post and possibly bringing it back into service.  once the scaffold is removed we will also fit the recently restored disc signal.