Mike Tough belatedly reports for Saturday 6th August - "worksite Mile post 90 1/2
Rail regulation after reports of a noisy joint ( did not say broken fishplates ) caused by cooler weather after hot spell
7 joints 6 rails had to be freed off the dreaded elastic spikes first
Then joint and other measured shovel packing."
With thanks to Georgie, Ian, Kevin Morris, Andrew, Mike Tough and especially Baptiste as it was his last P'Way day before he heads back home to Lyon, photos below from resident Station Master Walters,
who had the pleasure of him as a house guest and I think he benefitted from Baptiste's excellent cooking skills! (Glad to see the weather finally warmed up for him.) We wish him well with his future Rail studies and hope he can return someday - au revoir!
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Saturday 14th August again saw blisteringly high temperatures - squad met at the new locus of tool/messvan as the worksite is now not far away,- from Outer Up Home Signal to the start of the concrete sleepers there are apparently seventy wooden sleepers marked up for replacement, Georgie had previously laid out new sleepers at the sites of the worst condition ones first, certainly hauling out the old ones was easier than normal all being bone dry and some even in bits!
We envied the farmer in his nice air conditioned cab! It was so hot that we had luncheon inside the P'Way lant Maintenance Shed aka Morley's (mark 2) and Georgie even treated us to ice creams (some had more than one! - Michael)
Here the guage was found to be slightly tight, necessitating removal of screws 2 chairs either side and then applying back to back track jacks to maintain the correct distance whilst drilling, rior to screwing down.
Thanks to Georgie, David, Bob, Iain, Michael and especially Fergus & Mike who also managed to do track inspections over the weekend.
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