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GWSR Broadway Developments

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Breva, Aug 1, 2014.

  1. Roger Thompson

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    I am glad to see you are supporting my new line, the GWSR,. Robin.

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    A tamping machine appears to be at Broadway Station at present. More progress.:)
     
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    There's a report on tamping yesterday on the extension blog too.
     
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    It's going slowly forward, next stop Honeybourne..
     
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    It's intriguing to think how that job was done before the introduction of tampers! I can only assume the track-gangs must have been mob-handed, with somebody at the end of each sleeper.
     
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    I've no doubt not for another decade, but I sincerely hope so in the fullness of time.
    Andy
     
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    Ha! Ha! I wish!
     
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    I just get a message saying that the attachment cannot be shown at this time.
     
  9. flying scotsman123

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    Some pictures apparently aren't working yet because of the server change yesterday, they ought to be working again soon. T'was a photo of an advance Broadway return ticket for the opening weekend by the way.
     
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    Tamper back again today and visible on the webcam.
    Edit: I see it never left and was there overnight... When I looked about 4pm it was gone and now at 7:15 am it's visible
     
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    The blog said it would go back to Toddington overnight. Maybe better security?
     
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    I read..
    "The tamper arrived from Toddington, yours truly by car instead, so that he could take the crew back by road at the end of the day, leaving the machine in the platform at Broadway overnight."
     
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    Yes, I just read that update, my info was from the day before! Can't keep up.............
     
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    Nothing intriguing about it Andy. It was bloody hard work, as was spreading the ballast after a drop, if you didn't have a Shark. Which was why I bought one.:)
     
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    ...at the back there.
    Wake up ! :D

    The tamper was out this afternoon, measuring and then tamping the P2 road. The building gang was levelling the northern platform , ready for tarmacing. It's quite along job; they've done about three quarters of it now.

    I'd post a picture of the tamper by the SB, but the upload seems frozen. Any ideas why?
     
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    I've found that a compressed picture does work, so here is the tamper today:

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    It did all of P2, down to the siding stop blocks. Tomorrow the regulator will follow up, then there will be more ballast drops to fill voids that arose from the lifts.

    In the Gents toilet the partitions were going up.
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    Unfortunately they are beige, not at all historical. The reason for this is that they were ordered some while ago, before new project management and a greater interest in a heritage toilet facility. We hope to paint or clad them at some future date. Right now the whole focus is on opening.
     

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    Hopefully something can be done in the fullness of time with the partitions. The main thing is of course having everything open and usable, when we were shown a picture of the gents loos at our seminar the other week we all had a good laugh at the "open plan Roman" style!
     
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    Pass the loo roll old chap :)
     
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    “Pass the sponge on a stick” surely. This is the Broadway thread, we must be historically accurate in all things - even Roman ones!
     
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    true very true, and historically correct of coure now you would have to use synthetic sponge,
     
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