Tuesday 2nd Dec
Several things happening today after a very useful morning briefing. A lot of stuff for us to focus on in the coming weeks.
Firstly Andy and Peter go to Winchcombe Box to resolve a problem with the Token Machine
Then John P and Peter W dismantle point rodding which impedes the replacement of sleepers, adjacent to Winchcombe box, by the Pway on Wednesday. We will re-connect on Thursday
The replacement of the cabling between Gotherington to CRC needs further investigation and planning. We want to have an understanding of the routing of the existing cable to avoid damaging it when we do the trenching for the new one. So off we go with some hi-tech Cable Tracing equipment that we have borrowed for a few days. This tells us the direction of the cable, it's depth and its alignment. So a bit of track walking between the CRC down distant signal and CRC - plus a visit to the Bishops Cleeve foot crossing.
We have marked the run with white spray paint which I think you can just make out on the following photos. Most of the way from the distant signal to the RDA crossing the cable is approx 1.5 metres from the adjacent rail and is at an average depth of 0.4m.
At the Bishop Cleeve foot crossing it is consistently about 18" from the rail. Here is Mike S with the detector
Curly
