Wednesday 30th March 2023

Worklist:

Progress cladding of loading dock building.

Relay road surface of yard and access road.

Apply grass and scrub vegetation to final hillside area.

Stephen continued to work on the loading dock building. Door blanks prepared the previous week were trimmed and squared up ready to be fitted. Corrugated iron plasticard was slowly applied to several faces. A lot more to do, but it seems to be going ok.

Geoff was keen to re-cover to surface of the yard and access road in a material closer to the light stone being delivered from the quarry to the mainline sidings. He found a jar of ash-like material that neither of us could identify, but a reasonable match to the stone. A thin layer PVA was applied and the grit scattered over. The final effect will only be revealed once the dry grit has been vacuumed up.

The new grit had been discussed at length after the first test area was applied. The difficulty was the grit size, which scaled too large, but looked acceptable 'from a distance'. We'll see how it looks after the clean-up.

Geoff moved on to tackle the final bare hillside. Previously painted with brown water-based powder paint mixed with some PVA (to seal the paint). More PVA was applied to stick the mixture of electrostatic and hand scattered material.

The manufacture of front door steps is underway, which, once fitted, will allow the path to be completed.

(Note the weathered roof panels on the water tank roof frame).