Upgrading Signage

 Tuesday 3rd Sept

A short trip to CRC today to replace some very tired warning signs. The first ones are at the crossing by the signal box:

John B and John P removing the very faded one:

And the bright new one (complying with current regulations) in place:

This one has much more of a visual impact

Then it's back to base at Winchcombe to do a bit of tidying up at the far end of the new workshop. It is planned to reposition the container which is presently opposite the C & W workshop at the side of the set of blue containers here. This to provide more secure and dry storage for our signal spares.

The whole of this area will be tidied up with a covering of stone/spent ballast

Note the drains here which we have surrounded with aprons of concrete.

This area will be used to tidy up the various  larger signalling items which currently are spread around Winchcombe yard.

That's all from me for a while - having a full knee replacement next week so no more clambering over ballast for some time!

Curly

 

And Finally at Gotherington

 Last Thursday George and I went to Gotherington for one last time, with the remaining parts for the ground signal and a tin of black paint.  We fitted the lamp case, balance weight and arm and the disc face and back blind and re-connected it.  We then touched up a few damaged and missed areas of paint on the new signal and ground signal and painted a few bolt heads.  Finally went to the box to correctly set up the signal wire for the new signal (the wire was just a bit too slack).  The adjuster on the lever tail was near the end of its travel and was also partly seized, so we removed the adjuster, placed it in the vice, freed it up and set it toward the longer end of its adjustment.  We then cut the signal wire outside of the box and re-jointed it using a short piece of wire and reducing its effective length by around 6" (we had to use an additional piece of wire and make two joints, as jointing a wire needs about 6-8" spare wire on each end to 'wrap' the joint, therefore to just cut and re-join a wire makes it around 12-16" shorter, which would have been too short).  Once we'd done this we set the adjuster correctly for a good off on the signal.  That completes the job replacing the old wooden post and refurbishing the disc, cabinet and associated connections around them.  The below photo shows the completed job, with the signal box in the background.

I'm off to Australia for most of October and some members of the gang will be absent for several weeks due to medical procedures.  Therefore there will be little to report for a while.  The good news is that our S&T Workshop is now almost complete, so November should see us moving in and setting up for winter maintenance.