Midweek saw us without Georgie, task set for us was to neatly spread the dropped ash in the cesses 92 1/2 milepost near Broomhill.
We first of all had to go to Boat of Garten to find the grapes, the toolvan was bereft of them except one very heavy one above, other dilapidated ones were got and when we arrived Broomhill Mike found a small rake.
Task was completed quite rapidly and lunch was had in Broomhill Porters room as it was decidedly windy.
The plan was to lop lineside vegetation Milton Level Crossing but guessed all the decent tools were in the brakevan, presumably at Aviemore!! Angus fitted a new blade to to a handsaw and others found older/blunter implements. We walked from our PWay Depot and in the end cleared the down embankment and round to Milton Bridge as above.
Thanks to Angus, Mike and Roddy (latter two photos)
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Mike reports - Yesterday saw a small but very capable squad meet at Boat of Garten expecting to be whisked away to milepost 92 for Measured Shovel Packing, alas no locomotive was available, so Georgie's plan B swung into operation -
"renewing a few ferrules and screws" near Boat South signalbox. Georgie had got a load of M screws when she was South during the week. Mike removed screws, possibly David and Kevin did battle with old ferrules and above foreground John screwed them down using wrench.
In the process flattening six batteries and a mere 450! screws, meant for four very tired volunteers. The redundant material tidied into piles then thrown in the clamshell bucket and taken to the recycling skip.
Thanks to all mentioned (Mike for info/photos)
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