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Broadway Station Rebuild: Marking the day...
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Saturday, 8 August 2015. Another hot day in Broadway but still 13 volunteers signed into work. John C and Steve then marked out the centre line of the foundations. Ready for the excavator to start on Monday morning. The site should look a lot different by this time next week. The next job was to move around 70 concrete troughs from the north end of the site where they have been in store since being recovered from Honeybourne following the Cotswold line re-doubling a few years ago. Ron B manned the Inform...
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Broadway Station Rebuild: Business as usual
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Sunday, 16 August 2015. Limited coverage of Saturday's activities at Broadway due to a slight misunderstanding about who was reporter-in-chief but the following is included just to confirm that it was business as usual. Half way there in the boundary fence survey, thanks to Robin and Phil. For helping Vic cut back the brambles and ivy. Now that the footbridge hoops have been moved nearer the workshop Peter K and Jo were able to spend the day working on them, removing some hard to get to rivets to make th...
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Broadway Station Rebuild: Another fine day
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Sunday, 2 August 2015. A good day yesterday, with 11 volunteers on site, and a nice warm day with which to get going. The station building is getting into gear now, and the start date for the foundations has been announced: Monday 10. In the picture above you can see the site of the station building. The old fencing was carefully dismantled and stored on platform two for future use elsewhere. Further along platform 2 we found Jim digging an exploratory ditch around the remaining foundations of the origin...
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Broadway Station Rebuild: Much work and good progress
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Thursday, 6 August 2015. Much work and good progress. 65279;. The painters have completed the priming of the signal box roof and have also had time to rub down and prime the locking room window frames. 65279;. Spirit levels are not hammers! The viewing platform has been extended towards the edge of platform 1 so that. Our visitors can have a better view of the work going on. Laying out the base for the new shed. It will look better. The last of the soil. Site of the main station building.
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Broadway Station Rebuild: A Very Busy Day!
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Thursday, 13 August 2015. A Very Busy Day! There were 23 volunteers on duty today and there was much activity across the whole site. The contractors, Graham Morrison Ltd, together with a strong band of volunteers led by Tony and Clive pressed on with the foundations to the station building. The last delivery for today. This was the third lorry load of concrete, in addition to the 4 loads on Tuesday, with more expected on Thursday. Here is the inside of the signal box having received a coat of white prime...
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Broadway Station Rebuild: Windows 12
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Friday, 7 August 2015. A significant day in the construction of the signal box. The installation of 12 of the 14 operating room windows. An unusual view of Broadway signal box before work started today. The work carried out by the painters in priming the inside of the roof can be clearly seen. Paul Richards, the joiner who has manufactured the windows, arrived early this morning with his assistant Bart and a van load of windows. The first window was soon going in. With the first bay completed.
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Broadway Station Rebuild: Good foundations
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Monday, 10 August 2015. A start was made today on digging and concreting the foundations for the main station building. However an unpromising start to the day when one of the two hired-in dumpers had a severe case of Monday morning blues and refused to move on its own so had to be winched back on to the lorry and taken back to the depot. Once that little hiccup had been dealt with the JCB soon got stuck in. With the Construction manager ensuring that the trench was dug to the correct dimensions.
