Dave Evans had a good group for this week's Tuesday gang of the Wailing Wall Construction Company (WWCC). Regulars Colin, Geoff and Ken were joined by Danny, Richard and Adam.
They pulled themselves ahead of schedule, which Dave was thoroughly chuffed about. By the end of the day there wasn't much else they could do that they knew of at that time.
Geoff worked for most of the day on the new internal door for the booking office, applying extra sealant to the glass sections, and undercoat, following Dave's installing the glazing earlier. It now looks very smart and should be fitted in place at some point next week.
The 'youngsters' - Adam, Danny and Richard - had their energy applied to bricks, reclaiming them from their long term storage location alongside Hollybush sidings. They are imperial shropshire blues, and were almost fully covered with thick ivy, having been stacked alongside where the western diesels are currently parked.
The ivy was tightly holding onto them, so we had to knock down the columns of double stacked bricks to extract them from the bindings. Well over 500 bricks were moved by the time we stopped, and probably more than that again still where they were.
If there's one thing we do very well at Bridgnorth, it's reclaiming, recycling and make do and mend, instead of buying from new. We enjoy using our hands and skills to build the solutions to our problems.
Another very simple job needing to be done was collecting all unused timbers and old rotten packing from around the area of 82045's new frames and the machinery components stacked by the retaining brick wall. The collected wood is now in the mpd wood pile, ready to be used for light ups.
Two new volunteers found themselves acquainted with name and information plates from the crane, currently in the carriage siding, and the steel sand blasting cabinet in the mpd's welding bay. They made an excellent job of cleaning up the plates ready to be repainted, restored, given a lick of paint, ready to be mounted on varnished wooden plaques and linstalled in the railwayman's arms, with our current extensive collection of number plates.
Report based on Adam Thomas' notes.
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