Three jobs at once

The sunny weather brings out the teams, and so it was with B&S on Wednesday. Nine members attended, a very good turnout. Three different jobs were addressed, at Winchcombe, Toddington and Gotherington.

Toddington first:

This is a picture of the top of the drive at Toddington.

Pete, John and Jim H went to Toddington to install 3 tubular metal posts at the main site entrance.  These are to support some new Event Banners in a more prominent position than is currently done by fixing said banners to the railings.  

The job was not straightforward as they had to carefully expose a fibre optic cable first so as to avoid damaging it. 

In the background you can see the new houses that have been built opposite our entrance. A second, much larger housing project is also under way at Toddington.

Centre bracket

End bracket

Barry fitted the brackets made in C & W last week to facilitate the easy lift out of 2 fence panels adjacent to the platform at Winchcombe.

Barry also started on 3 of the 4 noticeboards that are required to announce the footpath closure near the aqueduct at Stanton.  This is leaking into the cutting it is designed to bridge, with a footpath on top.

 

The boards were primed by Mike.

 

 

Pat was making up more fencing panels in the workshop.  This particular one is for a section of the fence adjacent to the SB at Winchcombe.

 

 

Finally Austen, John and Jim H went to Gotherington to fit a sheet of metal on the crossing there to protect the wood from catching fire when steam locos stop in the platform.

Meanwhile Ken continued to creosote the fence at Winchcombe.

 

Lunch was held on an idyllic Winchcombe platform in fine company. It doesn't get any better than this !

Fencing

After a well deserved rest for a holiday the B&S blog is back with an update on fencing at Winchcombe.

The weather was pretty miserable yesterday, but the human turnout was good - 8 volunteers !

Here is Barry in the B&S workshop making up the last of 3 panels to complete the platform side of the fencing at Winchcombe.

On the platform itself, during a brief ray of sunshine, the fence posts were being fitted where the container used to stand.

Afterwards Barry reprofiled the tops of the posts.

Here the post fitting is completed, apart from making up some brackets to allow a panel to be lifted out easily during special events.

After fitting the fence panels, Ken started creosoting them, this time back in the rain.

Here he is a bit later, with the panels almost all black now.

The other job on this fencing project at Winchcombe was to put some concrete under the panels on the car parking side.

 

Some of the concreting involved standing in the rain in a big puddle, and then again there was a brief sunny interval and they could work in the sun. April showers, eh?

Here's a shot of the concreting underneath. It all looks very neat now. Note that all the concrete was mixed in the ballast dump some 250 yds away, and then barrowed to where it was wanted.

The team also had the chance to grab a picture of the new visitor centre from the inside.

This is the upstairs, set up for a conference. You can't get more modern than that!